Finding the Cave

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 136670

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:

> I'm still puzzled how someone could locate the cave before 
> Dumbledore. There were only a handful of people who knew about the 
> existence of the cave, all presumed to be Muggles, except for 
> Voldemort and Dumbledore. Quite a few wizards knew Voldemort was 
> once the schoolboy Tom Riddle, including Dumbledore, Slughorn, 
> Lucius, Borgin (?) and a handful of DE's who apparently went to 
> school with Riddle. But only Dumbledore and Headmaster Dippet seem 
> to know that Tom Riddle was a half-blood raised in an orphanage. 
The 
> others, including Slughorn, assumed a more prestigious heritage or 
> accepted the Heir of Slytherin link.
>
Jen,

It has been suggested (I can't remember who or when, sorry!) that 
someone switched the locket before Voldemort placed it in the cave, 
so that he was actually placing a phony.  The obvious hole in the 
theory being, "How could he not realize it was a fake?"  I don't 
know if I agree with it or not, but it's certainly an interesting 
idea.

Allie