[HPforGrownups] Re: The Smiths must still have the Hufflepuff Cup

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 156529

abergoat wrote:
> Carol wrote:
>> I don't see how the Smith family could still have the cup since
>> Voldemort stole both it and the locket to turn them into Horcruxes
>> after he murdered Hepzibah (and framed poor Hokey).
> 
> Abergoat responds:
> But that is the question isn't it? Hepzibah clearly says her family
> would be furious if they knew she was showing it to Tom and she
> explicitly states that they cannot wait to get their hands on it. This
> seems it imply either Tom ran around modifying Smith family members'
> memories so they wouldn't remember it at all (seems dangerous...what
> if one of them proves resistant? And how does Voldemort figure out who
> they are?) or Tom went the simpler route and left the cup in the
> family's possession.
> I could be wrong, but it is a serious plot hole otherwise.
> 
> Abergoat


   KJ writes:

     Wouldn't it just be easier to transfigure a tea cup to look like 
Hufflepuff's cup???  I have to go with Carol here. It would make no 
sense to leave it.

   KJ