Lockets (Was Re: The magically refilling Pensieve)

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 138063

> catkind earlier:
> >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...)
> 
> CathyD:
> Bella (and other DEs) only *think* they are favourites of the Dark 
Lord.  Dumbledore's "he shows just as little mercy to his followers 
as his enemiers" and other remarks, in HBP, about LV working alone, 
and that his followers are mistaken when they believe they are in 
his conficence, show that.  
> 
> I don't believe for one second, that a man - for lack of a better 
word - like LV, who truly trusts no one (the most skilled 
Legillimens) would have allowed any one of his followers to place 
one of the Horcruxes anywhere.  Even not knowing what they were, 
they would know they were hiding something important for the DL and, 
in LV's mind, that person would then have to die or he would run the 
risk of them telling someone else (oh, see what Voldie asked me to 
do!).  

catkind: Yeah, LV does seem more like the work alone type, but then, 
we know he was a bit careless with his Horcruxes.  Lucius Malfoy had 
one, after all - that's canon for his allowing one of his DEs to put 
a Horcrux somewhere, and Lucius seems to have known it was something 
important, though how much he knew isn't clear.   

If you insist LV put the locket in the cave, however, you have to 
explain both how the unknown RAB comes to be stronger than 
Dumbledore, and why he or she bothers to put in a fake Horcrux and 
replace the potion. (Well, not you personally, Cathy!) He was 
expecting to be dead, and seems to have wanted LV to know about it, 
or why leave the note in the first place?