[HPforGrownups] Re: R.A.B

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 150717

My personal assumption (I wouldn't call it a theory) about RAB is
that RAB is Regulus and that Regulus switched the lockets BEFORE the
locket got put in the cave, he didn't go there to retrieve it (and
thus someone we don't yet know put the fake locket in the birdbath,
since Voldemort would have recognized it).  It's possible it was
Bellatrix who was trusted with the task of protecting the necklace by
taking it to the cave, as per her cut-off statement in Spinners End
about being trusted by Voldemort with something important.

(Another assumption: Voldemort told no one about the horcruxes.  He
wanted his followers to see him as a great magician with access to
old, ancient and powerful magic.  I'm sure he was pursuing
immortality on other non-horcrux levels as well.  RAB's note implies
that he felt he had discovered Voldemort's secret and the tone
suggests that the scales have fallen from his eyes.) 

I think there are too many difficulties around the idea of Regulus
undergoing the same struggles that Dumbledore and Harry went through.
 It makes more sense to me that he'd switch them beforehand.  How or
when - I don't know.  

Why wasn't the locket destroyed?  Don't know that either.  I suspect
Regulus tried to destroy it himself but died in the attempt, and that
Kreacher was responsible for putting it amongst the Black Family
trophies.  Perhaps he recognized the Salazar Slytherin "S" and jumped
to the conclusion that Regulus died protecting the locket from
someone else.  

Why didn't Mrs. Black notice an addition to her heirlooms cabinet? 
If she didn't know it was there, she might miss it.  If you get used
to seeing the same collection every day eventually you sort of don't
really see it at all.  

No, I really think assuming that Regulus went to the cave isn't
necessary or probable plot-wise.

Magda

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