Penetrating defenses/Knowing about Horcruxes

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 138078

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mt3t3l1" <mt3t3l1 at y...> wrote:

> Second problem: If LV believes that he alone knows about his 
> Horcruxes, how does this interface with his statement to the Death 
> Eaters in the graveyard in GOF: "And then I ask myself, but how
> could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the
> steps I 
> took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death?" Perhaps DD 
> meant that LV is the only one who knows the *location* and *number* 
> of his Horcruxes. But from LV's own statement, it appears that his 
> Death Eaters are aware that they exist. [Which raises another 
> question--have any of the Death Eaters made Horcruxes for 
> themselves?]
> 
> 
> The simplest explanation is that DD was wrong on both counts. LV was 
> not interested in how his defenses had been penetrated (perhaps 
> because he believed them to be impenetrable), and LV did not believe 
> that he was the only one who knew about his Horcruxes.

Amiable Dorsai:
Later in Voldemort's speech to the Death Eaters, he says: 

"You know my goal - to conquer death. And now, I was tested, and it
appeared that one or more of my experiments had worked ... for I had
not been killed, though the curse should have done it."

I take it that Voldemort is lying to the DEs here--that they only
think they know all of the experiments Riddle has tried to make
himself immortal.  After all, Riddle's greatest protection for the
Horcruxes is the rest of the world's ignorance of their existence. 
Telling his DEs about them gives them power over him.  Let them think
it was something else that kept him alive.

Against this notion is the fact that RAB apparently knew about at
least one of them--maybe the only thing Riddle kept secret from his
DEs is the number of Horcruxes.  RAB seems to have thought that
elininating the locket would be enough to make Voldy vulnerable.

Amiable Dorsai