HBP The memory in the cave... is Snape's.

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138042

Saraquel wrote:
All quotes from UK ED
Before he drinks the potion DD says to Harry:
Ch 26, p532 "I should have said, he would not want immediately to
kill the person who reached this island, <snip> He would want to
keep them alive long enough to find out how they managed to
penetrate so far through his defences and, most importantly of all,
why they were so intent upon emptying the basin. Do not forget that
Lord Voldemort believes that he alone knows about his Horcruxes."


vmonte:
Ok, if we go along with Dumbledore's comments then the potion is
there to alert Voldemort that someone has found out about the
horcruxes. Voldemort wants to know how they found out, and who was
responsible for leading them there (well at least this is what I
would want to know).

So my question is how does Voldemort find out this information? I
mean he obviously was not alerted of the cave break in when RAB stole
the horcrux, and I think I know the reason why. The locket is still
intact. Voldemort doesn't know yet that someone found one of his
horcruxes because the locket was not destroyed. When Harry finds it
and destroys it, Voldemort will know because he will feel himself
becoming more human. That is when Voldemort will then go to the cave
to see what the potion reveals.

Valky now:
I agree with houyhnhnm's objection, that it is unlikely Voldie would
be alerted to the cave when the locket was destroyed. However,
disregarding some of the means for just a moment, I really actually do
like the suggestion that the Basin fills with the memories of the
person who comes for the locket so that Voldie can see the reason that
they are there when/if he returns after they have been there. 

A syllogism.. Assume one and two and three are TRUE.

1. LV would keep the drinker alive "long enough" to get the
information out of him. 

2. After the potion has been drunk the drinker dies unless he gets water.

3. If the drinker get water and lives the Inferi attack and the
drinker dies anyway.

If these are true then it is also true that the time it takes for the
drinker to drink the potion *is* long enough to get the information.

Hence a Legilimensing potion is in the Basin.

And it is quite possible that the potion that DD drinks contains the
legilimensed memories of R.A.B.


So to speculate on the things that DD saw whilst drinking the potion,
they seem to me like the Memories of someone being punished by Lord
Voldemort. A DE?

In particular there is the later parts where DD's voice says, No not
that... I'll do anything... followed by what is apparently torture. To
me this seems like someone being crucio'ed.

I was going to write a whole lot more but I am drawing a blank now so
I'll take a break.

Valky
Who is thinking it's all really adding up to Regulus, whether we like
it or not.