R.A.B

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 150718

 Magda Grantwich wrote:
> 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.
> 
Potioncat:
Me too! {an elf with NYC on her tea towel clears her throat just as 
Potioncat is about to hit the send key.)

Let me expand on that.

Actually, the locket only had to fool one person, the person who 
placed it in the basin. For that matter, the original Horcrux could 
have been a music box, so long as the one who placed it (or the one 
guarding it) didn't know what it was supposed to be. Or, it could 
have been transfigured to look more like the original locket, and 
that spell ended when RAB died.

In theory, when, or if, LV ever came back for it, he would know at 
once it was the wrong locket. He'd open it and see that RAB had 
tricked him many years before.

I suspect that whoever placed the locket in the basin is still in 
the lake...and that could be RAB. Or RAB, as a "loyal" DE and 
favorite cousin of Bella's may have helped her place the locket. He 
tricked her and replaced the locket prior to taking it to the lake. 
Shortly after that, it was determined he had lost interest in the 
overall program and was killed. But no one knew yet that he had 
switched the locket.


>Magda: 
> 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. 

Potioncat:
I agree. The switched locket was placed before the traps were set 
up.