Lockets (Was Re: The magically refilling Pensieve)

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 138030

Mimbletonia:
> 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...
> 

catkind: Hmm, but why would RAB bother going into the cave if he 
knew it'd kill him?

I agree the real locket was hidden at Grimauld Place, but I don't 
think it was ever in the birdbath.

LV: Here, Bella, I'll leave this locket at your Uncle's house, just 
pop it down the cave for me, there's a dear?
(Bella at Spinner's End: The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted 
me with his most precious...)

Locket was sitting at 12GP waiting for Bella to pick it up when RAB!
Regulus stumbled on it - then when he switched it Bella, who'd never 
seen the original, didn't notice a thing.

The replaced locket only makes sense to me if it was replaced 
*before* being put in the cave, and before being seen by someone who 
knew there was a locket but not which locket. Which would also 
remove the problem of self-refilling pensieves - what's the point of 
a pensieve that refills after the treasure is stolen?

Just a thought.

catkind