Slytherin’s Locket: Red Herring in the Cave?

kempermentor kempermentor at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 19 17:36:13 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 133072

Is Voldemort a bit paranoid?  Though I have no canon for it except 
his secretiveness, I think so.  If it's given that he's paranoid, 
then


Would the Dark Lord hide all the true Horcruxes, or would he leave a 
fake one for any looking for them so that the searcher would assume 
the locket was destroyed as the note indicated?  To make this seem 
even more authentic perhaps he possessed or cast Imperious on RAB to 
write the note.  He then had or killed RAB.

I would think that Voldemort would want to have Slytherin's Locket 
close to him because the Locket belonged to both Slytherin and his 
mom.  Its significance is obvious.  
I think Bella is or was responsible for it:

Bella: `The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted me with his most 
precious--
' (HBP US p29)

Perhaps after `killing' Dumbledore, Snape will be in entrusted `with 
his most precious' Locket.  

I realize that there's the Locket at 12 G. Place, but maybe it's 
just a locket.  Like the mouth organ from Orphanage!Tom's dresser, 
it was only ever a mouth organ.

Kemper,
Who doesn't (want to) believe Snape's betrayal.  See post 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/132923







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