[HPforGrownups] Your take on locket? Was: Whose orders was Snape following?

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 135257

 
anna writes:
 
>What is your take on the locket exactly? If Regulus died after  putting 
>the note in the locket and securing it back in the cave,  wouldn't that 
>mean the locket would not have been at Grimmauld place but  save in the 
>cave for years and years? 




A) Two different lockets, B) there's no reason to believe that  Regulus 
didn't return to GP.
 
  IF R.A.B. is Regulus Black, it is reasonable to assume that Regulus  
already had the fake locket with him when he went to the cave.  After  ordering 
Kreacher to drink the potion, he switched lockets and went back to  Grimmaud Place 
and put the locket in a trophy case.  Shortly (perhaps days)  later, he was 
killed.
  Now all we know for sure about the locket in 12GP was that the  clean-up 
crew couldn't open it.  We know that Kreacher was filching things  from the 
rubbish bin (gargbage can to us yanks), and if he had paid such a heavy  price to 
help Regulus obtain it, he certainly wasn't about to let it be casually  
discarded.
  We get a brief view of Kreacher's rathole of a bed, but all  that is 
mentioned specifically is several framed pictures that we know were  thrown away.  
Mundungus, although he was systematically filching from 12  GP, strikes me as a 
thief of opportunity.  Something that's in plain sight  and small enought o 
fit in a pocket tends to leave the house when Mundungus  does.  I doubt he 
would take the trouble of rummaging through Kreacher's  bedroll to find something 
worth selling.
  BUT, if he did indeed lift the horcrux locket, he probably sold it  to 
Borgin and Burkes, were it pops up again as the locket that Hermione inquires  
about (the quoted price was 1,500 Galleons).  It might seem odd that  Hermione 
didn't recognize it, but there's no absolute canon that she ever saw  it.
  Sooo, the locket could be in Borgin and Burkes, already sold to  another 
wizarding family, in Kreacher's rathole, at a still undiscovered  location in 12 
GP, or basically, just about anywhere, especially if R.A.B. is  *not* Regulus 
Black.
 
  --  Ray


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