The magically refilling Pensieve (Was: Why would RAB put poison back

[mimbeltonia]

No: HPFGUIDX 137778

> Carol responds:
> I agree with your logic here, but surely it's neither a bucket nor a
> birdbath. It's what we all thought it was when we first saw the
> American cover of HBP, a cracked and ancient Pensieve. And the evil
> Legilimens Voldemort has filled it with poisoned thoughts or 
memories
> that create both physical agony and mental anguish. I don't have 
time
> to check, but isn't the consistency of the potion neither gas nor
> liquid but somewhere in between, much like the silvery thoughts in
> Dumbledore's Pensieve but tinged with green like the light from an 
AK?
> 
> Whoever R.A.B. is, and especially if he's the young Death Eater
> Regulus Black, he would not have been able to recreate such a Dark 
and
> complicated potion. I'm quite sure that it magically refills itself
> for much the same reasons that you've given. I do commend R.A.B. on
> his foresight, though. I'm betting that he wrote the note and put it
> in the fake Horcrux before he even entered the cave. My question is,
> how did he know where--or what--the Horcrux was? 


What if RAB was placing the locket in the "horrid pensieve" on 
Voldemort's behalf? I do not think he entered and drank the potion, 
as Dumbledore himself said he would not have been able to do this on 
his own.

One horcrux was placed with the death eater Malfoy. Could not another 
horcrux be given to another death eater with instructions for its 
hiding? Maybe even along with the basin, unless this was already 
waiting in the cave? It would not necessarily take very advanced 
magic to drop something into the basin.

RAB then sucessfully pretends to have placed the locket according to 
instructions, but - if indeed he is Regulus Black - gets himself 
killed on Voldemort's orders when he freaks out over one of  his next 
assignments?

Or - maybe- the person who places the locket in the cave has to die 
as part of the magic? The real locket is already hidden at Grimauld 
Place, and as the fake one enters the potion, RAB is killed, thus 
ensuring its protection. - Maybe even along with several others to 
make up the oceanful of inferi...


-Mimbeltonia