[HPforGrownups] Re: Horcrux (Something of Ravenclaws/Gryffindor)

[Lindsay]

No: HPFGUIDX 134544

Wanda wrote:
> No, this theory posits that Slytherin's locket never was in the basin
> in the first place.  Voldemort put the false locket there himself,
> when he first prepared the Horcrux, and Dumbledore is the first person
> to find it.  How Slytherin's real locket ended up at Grimmauld Place
> is not yet clear, but Regulus Black is, I believe, a red herring, who
> has nothing to do with the Horcrux.
> 

Lawless replies:

Interesting idea.  I myself wondered if the potion was indeed the
Horcrux when we first read about it - however, if you look back into
the earlier books, even to the beginning of this book, the handwriting
of the RAB note does not match Dumbledore's writing.  They seem to be
very particular with handwriting in the series - characters will
always keep the same handwriting in each note posted to Harry.  Of
course, Dumbledore could have changed the handwriting, but that
doesn't really make much sense if he WANTS Voldemort to know, eh?  (Or
else why write the note at all?)

"ES: It seems like it would be impossible. If Harry had gone to the
cave, he never could have done it on his own, it seems like.

JKR: Well, I'm prepared to bet you now, that at least before the week
is out, at least one of the Horcruxes will have been correctly
identified by careful re-readers of the books. "

By books, it would be assumed that she meant a book other than HBP,
since that was the one they were specifically talking about at the
time - so why put it in plural tense?  So the hint about another
horcrux in the books leads to believe that it is the locket, since we
only know about it, the cup, the ring (destroyed) and Nagini
(possible).

But it is an interesting idea, nonetheless.  There was something about
that potion...

--Lawless