Locket Horcrux

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 156618

>From Mike's post:
> Abergoat:
> There is no reason to believe someone can tell something is a horcrux
> by just looking at it or even touching it. Since most fans  believe
> Harry has touched the locket horcrux in OoP that lends  some support
> that you cannot tell. <snip>
> 
> Mike again:
> Yeah, and Harry had the Diary!Horcrux and didn't know what it was.
> But, to be fair, at neither time did Harry know about Horcruxes, so
> maybe he wouldn't know what to be looking for.

Abergoat agrees:
Yes, I'm sure Dumbledore would have known since he knew what he was
looking for. I think my comment above was involved in the idea that
JKR hinted we might be able to figure out ALL of the horcruxes (or at
least something about them) so it stands to reason that someone may
have the the Ravenclaw horcrux and not know it just like it seems the
Black family had the locket laying around without knowing it.

> Mike wrote:
> I don't know how he
> is going to know, in book 7, when he's actually found a previously
> unknown Horcrux, unless it's obviously a founder's heirloom. If one
> of them is "something of Ravenclaws", who's going to tell him that
> Ravenclaw used to own it? <snip>

Abergoat offers:
I'm rather fond of the idea it turns out all the books at Spinner's
End are a hint that Eileen Prince was a Ravenclaw. Perhaps there will
come a moment where Harry has to trust Snape enough to tell him about
the horcruxes and Snape will be able to divulge something about his
mother...or even better one of Snape's possible relatives (Filch or
Irma?) knows something about a relic. I'm suspicious that Dumbledore
focused on the non-founder horcruxes knowing they would be the most
difficult and left the founder objects to Harry thinking that the hat
could help him. But Harry isn't friends with any 'true' Slytherins so
Dumbledore may have thought help was necessary on that one too.

Tinktonks wrote:
> Re: the locket Horcrux, I have 100% convinced myself that the Locket
> horcrux is the "a heavy locket that none of them could open" in
> Grimmauld Place in OotP and that therefore Harry has touched it. I'm
> also pretty sure that Kreacher has secreted them away in his den:
> 
> "Here and there among the material were stale bread crusts and
> mouldy old bits of cheese. In a far corner glinted SMALL OBJECTS
> and coins that Harry guessed Kreacher had saved."

Abergoat agrees:
I bet clean-freak Petunia finds it when cleaning out her 'new home'
after being brought to Grimmauld Place for safety. I can just picture
a scene with Petunia screaming nasty names as Harry tries to take it
from her!

Abergoat, hoping she credited people properly...