R.A.B. & Missing Horcrux

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 136967

Georgy Granger 
>>R.A.B seems to have known Voldemort, very 
well, as only the Death Eaters (and occaisionally Dobby) refer to 
Voldemort as "The Dard Lord", and the note begins with: "To The Dark 
Lord".

CathyD now:
Having nearly completed a complete re-read of the whole series, there are lots of people who call Voldemort *The Dark Lord*.  I wish I had taken the time to list them all.  One of which, though, is Ginny Weasley in her Valentine to Harry.  Another is Trelawney in her two *prophecies*.

What I find more interesting are the times someone calls him *Voldemort* when I dont think they *should*.  Fake!Moody/Crouch calls him Voldemort once as did Peter Pettigrew in POA.  I found that very odd (Snape is soooo good about never saying Voldemort) and have wondered, for a long time obviously, if it is a printing error or something else.


Georgy Granger 
>>I just wondered: what is Sirius' brother, Regalus' middle name, and 
couldn't JKR have described the locket more fully, or does anyone think 
that would have given away clues.

CathyD again:
We haven't been told Regulus's middle name although they had an Uncle Alphard who left Sirius a load of money.  The locket is described as a 'heavy gold locket' in the "House of Gaunt" chapter of HBP, when Marvolo is nearly strangling Merope to show Bob Ogden the locket.  There was no mention there of it having the snake engraving on it, which shows up in the Hepzibah Smith memory.  So a locket is described once as having a snake engraved on it, once as a heavy locket no one could open and once as a heavy gold locket.  I don't think we're talking about three different lockets....the one Merope had around her neck and the one Hepzibah Smith had are definitely the same...the question is, is the locket that was at Grimmauld place the same one as well?  Only two years to wait until we find out for sure! ;)




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