Your take on the locket?

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 135353

Potioncat wrote:

>Someone did switch the fake-horcrux-locket with the genuine horcrux
>prior to its being placed in the cave. So here's one possibility:
>RAB is given the task by LV to place the Locket in a cave. RAB
>understands what the Locket is and has time to switch it, writing a
>note to go into the fake!horcrux and hiding the real one somewhere
>else. RAB and whoever else LV assigned, took the fake!horcrux to the
>cave, no spells/curses/hexes were yet in place. They dropped the 
>fake!horcrux into the basin and one of two things happened.
>1) They then initiated the security spells themselves, and reported
>back to LV that the deed was done. In this case, RAB goes home.
>He/she may have been killed later.
>OR
>2) As soon as the fake!horcrux landed in the basin, the security
>spells were activated by magic LV had put into place and the 
>treasure hiders, just like unfortunate pirates of yore, were 
>killed. RAB is in the lake.


I like this idea, particularly the second scenario.  However, I am 
bothered by the idea that LV would trust a horcrux to one of his 
deatheaters, unless of course, RAB had taken an Unbreakable Vow to 
carry out LV's wishes.  Or perhaps LV just doesn't think in terms of 
disobedience.  On the same sort of theme, there are a few things 
that bother me:

(i) Why was the locket surrounded by all these Indiana Jones type 
defences, when the diary appears to have been simply knocking around 
at Malfoy Manor for years?  If RAB is Regulus, was he entrusted with 
the diary too, and did Lucius pick it up at a family tea at 12GP?

(ii) In COS, DiaryTom tells Harry the diary was created by Tom 
Riddle so that the Chamber could one day be reopened. Assuming JKR 
misleads but does not lie, was the creation of DiaryTom a seperate 
act from the creation of the horcrux, and VM then used it as a 
horcrux ,or was this always a dual purpose artifact?  Presumably 
LV/Tom Riddle always intended the diary to be used by someone other 
than himself to reopen the chamber, because he knew how to do it 
without the diary's help. So this returns to my earlier point that 
LV seems to treat his horcruxes, with the exception of the locket, 
in a rather cavalier way. 

(iii)On a separate note, I wonder if LV created the 'locket potion' 
himself, or whether he used an expert in the DEs, and whose memory 
DD is therefore channelling when he drinks.

  Leah