How to destroy a Horcrux (spoiler)

[aandj64]

No: HPFGUIDX 134901

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Peter Felix Schuster" <pfsch at g...> wrote:

> > Any speculation on 
> > whether the locket was swapped recently, or years ago?

My R A B theory is that the B stands for Burke.  If you remember the whole affair of the 
locket, Burke was intimately involved from the first.

- He bought the locket (for a song) from LV's mother - I bet LV was pretty annoyed about 
that actually.

- He employed LV and LV betrayed him by murdering a good customer and stealing 2 
valuable items that, by the tenor of the conversation, Burke might well have thought 
would pass through his shop again in the future.

- He disappears at some point.  We only ever see Caractacus Borgin in the shop these 
days.

So he intimately knows LV and has very personal reasons to be on terms of emnity with 
him.  He knows all about the locket (and probably the Hufflepuff goblet), but not 
necessarily the other horcruxes.  Judging by the evil reputation of Borgin and Burke it is 
not too unreasonable to assume that he had an affinity with dark magic.  I think he is a 
good contender.

Jocelyn