Lockets (Was Re: The magically refilling Pensieve)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138069


> catkind:    
> 
> 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?

Valky:
Mind if I jump in here, catkind, because your line of thought here
brings me right back to the thoughts I osted earlier about the potion
in the Basin. 
In case you missed it, I deduced on some premise of how the protection
*worked* towards LV's ends, that the act of drinking the potion was
the extraction of information that DD informed Harry, that LV would
probably have in place there. I proposed that the potion does
legilimency on the drinker.

I can't really answer all your questions, but it seems to me that
R.A.B  *was* one of Voldies servants betraying him. Because it answers
the particualr question you wrote above:

> why he or she bothers to put in a fake Horcrux and 
> replace the potion.
> expecting to be dead, and seems to have wanted LV to know about it, 
> or why leave the note in the first place?

Why this person bothers to put in a fake, is possibly because this
person somehow *knows* how this protection works. You are right,
R.A.B. knows something we do not, of that I am sure. But one answer I
would propose is that the basin, as a magical object, could be tricked
after it had been conquered. (Lets think Triwizard cup tricked by
Crouch to have an extra name come out of it). So R.A.B. drinks it up,
ewww, gets real sick, but manages to survive, then he puts a fake into
the basin and tricks the basin into thinking that he/she didn't get
the real one. So the basin resets its protections as though he/she had
just died.

Skipping along into pure speculation, I am supposing that R.A.B. had
some idea, what Voldie would do when he came to check his basin, so
was probably a DE. Either Voldie would look in and believe nothing had
happened. Or if he did notice something had happened, then he would
take a look at the legilimensed memories in the basin. The memories
would serve to remind him of the horror he put R.A.B. through in order
to make him want to betray, then he would retrieve the fake locket and
look inside to find the note which clearly is meant to get LV pretty
p****d if he ever reads it. Especially the bit where R.A.B says
_dying_ is so *small* compared to getting payback on you, yer old
fart.. muwahahahah 

So in conclusion, my thoughts are that this R.A.B. person knows a fair
bit before he goes there and most of what he does can be put to the
motive that he's out for some pretty awful vengeance on LV if he can
get it. As for him going to die, It's seems like R.A.B. thinks that is
a small price to pay in order to get back at Voldie. My guess Voldie
did something bleedin *horrid* to him/her. It's *got* to be a DE he
treats them worse than *anyone*. 

The thing that's catching my eye tonight is R.A.B.'s arrogance in the
face of death. I mean, this person is saying, my revenge for what
you've done that's worth dying for.. I am *so* prepared to take
whatever comes to in consequence for this vengeance.. Isn't it weird
how we've seen that streak before in Sirius, and these initials look
like his brother's. 

Oh, I just had a brainstorm that *noone* is going to like. What if
R.A.B. is alive right now.. hehehe we are sooo looking in the wrong
direction if JKR decides to make R.A.B. timeturn back from book seven.
LOL


Valky