Horcrux (Something of Ravenclaws/Gryffindor)

[wickywackywoo2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134477

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "deepam" <deepam at y...> wrote:
> Going over the part 3 of the interview JK gave to mugglenet.com
> and the leaky cauldron (she gave a hint that it is possible
> to find at least one horcrux), and re-reading the last few chapters,
> I have a theory regarding the horcrux:
> 
> 1. Dumbledore is the last heir of Gryffindor.
> 2. The potion in the green basin inside the cave was THE horcrux.
> 3. The drinker will not die, he will become possessed by the piece of
>     soul of Voldemort in there.
[SNIP more very interesting details!]

I agree with your theory - I wrote something a bit similar in an
earlier post, #134298.  I am still puzzling over the message in the
locket, however.  I think that Dumbledore himself inserted that
message in the locket, after he took it from Harry in the cave.  For
one thing, there's something odd about the way it's presented - it
doesn't LOOK like any other regular message, and I looked up all the
notes I could find in the book.  The rest of are written in normal
letter style, with indented paragraphs, and the writer's name is lined
up underneath the indent in every case.  But in this note, every line
is centered, including the R.A.B. on the bottom line.  It doesn't look
like a note at all - it looks like an inscription.  That's the way one
would present an inscription on a tombstone, for example; the
'U-No-Poo' sign in the Weasley's joke shop window is set out this way,
also.  This is why I don't think that R.A.B. are the initials of a
name - I think the letters stand for a phrase or saying, like "R.I.P."
on a gravestone.  

I was noticing Dickensian touches in this book, and this little thing
reminds me of something from "Little Dorrit".  The hero of the book
returns home to his mother after his father's death abroad, and he
shows her his father's watch.  Inside the case, he'd found a little
piece of paper, with the initials 'D.N.F.' written on it.  He thought
that perhaps she would know who that referred to.  She becomes very
upset when she sees it, and says the letter stand for "Do Not Forget"
- the message is a reminder about a painful incident from the past,
which we later learn about.  I think that R.A.B. might turn out to be
something similar.

Wanda