golpolott's third

[Len Jaffe]

No: HPFGUIDX 150790

Another thing that's been nagging at me lately after
listening to HBP on CD about 12 times is this:

Why didn't H&DD try to take some of the green potion
out of the cave and try to figure out an antidote?

Why would the biggest brain of the age just gulp down 
random poison, set out by LV?

The only logical conclusion I can come to is that DD's
incapacitation/death (I'm not convinced he's dead, but
that's a whoel other thread) is part of a much bigger
plan that DD and Snape must have hatched.  otherwise
prudence would have dictated an attempt to determine 
what the green kool-ade was before drinking.

Another thing in the cave that struck me was that the
description of the lake's behavior was eerily similar
to the description of the bahvior of draught of living
death.  It could be a way to store the people who
failed to retrieve the horcux until LV gets around to
checking on it, and can interrogate them on his own
time.  

For all we know, Regulus could be sleeping in the
lake, and not actually dead. Although, since Harry is
in control of #12GoP, this is unlikely, unless the
enchantment that govern things like ownership don't
account for things like "he's alive, but barely, and
he's in LV's lake", and for all intents he is dead.

Len.