Why Did DD Drink the Contents of the Bowl?

[cathmorgan100]

No: HPFGUIDX 133892

> HogwartsMom
> 
> > Yeah, I wondered why not conjur 10 goblets and fill them, but not
> > empty them.  Set them on the ground.  Would the basin know you 
> > weren't drinking them?
> 
> Another question about this - how did the liquid get back in the 
basin 
> after the first customer drank it and removed the first locket?


As a baseline, the whole cave enchantment is complex and only 
partially explained by DD, so there's a lot of room for any number of 
steps needed to get the locket and to escape. 

Re: the liquid in the basin, which also snagged my attention, there 
seem to be several possibilities:
     1.  RAB-whoever that is-is clever enough to get the locket so 
presumably is clever enough to do anything else to have the 
replacement unnoticed and escape, such as replace the fluid.
     2.  RAB as Black makes even more sense if LV was using his DE's 
to help hide some of the horcrux's....then a helper might have enough 
hints even if not as clever as LV or DD.  Maybe he wasn't quite 
clever enough and his replacement was noticed, leading to his death. 
      3.  The liquid is not the same type as the original and for 
various reasons (hand waving explanations due Book 7) doesn't have to 
be.
      4.  The RAB note is a red herring.  LV took the locket and left 
the replacement as a trap.


Cathcart