IMO Aberforth has Grimauld locket not Mundungus, anyone agree?

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 135149

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychobirdgirl" 
<psychobirdgirl at y...> wrote:
> I would have to say that the locket being in Aberforth's 
possession is 
> highly plausible, but my two knuts are thrown in the ESN!Aberforth 
pot.
> ESN(EverSoNeutral).
> 
> psychobirdgirl

The problem I see with a neutral Aberforth is that JKR would have no 
reason to get the Grimauld place locket to him if he is just going 
to sit on it.  As Harry will presumably at some point (after he 
realises the Regulus/locket-in-cabinet connection) corner Mung and 
ask him whether he stole the locket, and demand it back. Mung would 
then simply point to Aberforth.  So if Aberforth is ESN and still 
has it, what was the point of that.  The locket could just as easily 
have stayed with Mung.  If Mung was trying to fence the goods in 
Hogsmeade, and JKR needed to show him doing it so that Harry could 
make the plot connections, why introduce Aberforth at all, wouldn't 
any old dubious looking witch/wizard do? 

If indeed Aberforth has the locket, then I think that he has it for 
a reason, and an evil reason seems to make more sense to me at this 
point than a good one. Because it seems to me, that if it is a good  
reason, it would not matter if Mung still had possession of it.

The only good!reasonplot that I can think of would be that DD 
requested Mung to find the locket and give it to Aberforth.  But the 
plot implicatons for this are so far reaching that I doubt it can be 
true.  Do I have to explore them - no, I'm not going to, but they 
involve DD lying to Harry about the whereabouts of Horcruxes.

So I think I'm coming down on the side of ESE!Aberforth or even Spy!
Aberforth. Scary...

Saraquel