[HPforGrownups] Re: Finding the Cave

[Shobhit Gupta]

No: HPFGUIDX 136725

Jen Reese 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. 

Allie responded:

> 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.



I've also read somewhere, can't remember which post, that it could possibly be one of the kids Riddle tortured in the orphanage. One of the people he took to that cave was named Amy Benson (Im not 100% sure if thats her name, but I am pretty sure it is..sorry if I am wrong). This would somewhat fit the initials of R.A.B., obviously without the R. But it does make sense in that she would know precisely where the cave is located. 

shgupta