Why would RAB put poison back into the bucket?

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 137742

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tim at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" 
<sherriola at e...>
> wrote:
> > Why put poison back into the bucket?  > 
> > Greenfirespike
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sherry now:
> > 
> > I've wondered if perhaps the potion replenishes itself.  You 
know,
> someone
> > drinks it, and eventually it reappears in the basin.  Maybe, 
that's
> a way
> > out idea, but there has to be an explanation why it is there, if
> RAB had to
> > drink it previously.
> > 
> > sherry
> 
> We don't know if RAB drank it or found another way to get by it. We
> don't even know was put 
> there by LV or RAB. There is a chance the fake locket was bait and
> the potion was RAB's trap 
> for LV.
> 
> Tim

mhbobbin writes:

I like this idea of bait...LV drinks the deadly poison knowing he 
will have access to his horcrux to save him...only to learn the 
horcrux is a fake, just before he dies. Of course, this line of 
thinking assumes that LV only had one horcrux and if destroyed, LV 
could be destroyed.

We don't yet know how many, or if any other, horcruxes were found by 
RAB. If RAB didn't know there were other horcruxes, his efforts were 
wasted as well as Dumbledore's.

Mhbobbin