R.A.B

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 150747

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
>  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, Snip

> 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. (Snip)> 
> 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.
> 
(snip> 
> Potioncat:
> I agree. The switched locket was placed before the traps were set 
> up.
>

Tonks:
Makes sense. That is that RAB is in the lake. Perhaps he was sent 
with Bella to place the locket in the cave and was never expected to 
come out alive. Maybe Bella stayed on the bank and he went across in 
the boat. She doesn't seem to have any problem killing a relative. 
If it was known that he might be having second thoughts it could 
have been set up for him to die there. After all it seems to be a 
dangerous job to get to the pensive in the center of the lake, he 
may have been sent because it was dangerous and if he was successful 
and on his way back in the boat, Bella could have finished him 
there. If this theory is correct then it follows that he switched 
the lockets before he left the house. Or somewhere else and he told 
Kreacher to take it back to the house. 

The question is: Is the real locket still a horcrux? It can't be 
opened therefore, I think that it is still a horcrux and that it was 
in the stuff that Mundungus had in the bag when Tonks saw him. Who 
has it now?

Tonks_op