What did Bellatrix know? )Was: Traitors etc.)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 155210

Ceridwen:
<snip> Bellatrix said LV "shares everything" with her, that 
> he "...entrusted me with his most precious..." (page 29) and she did 
> not argue about Snape and the other named and implied Death Eaters 
> thinking that LV was dead.  It may be merely a matter of faith on 
> Bellatrix's part (page 27), but she didn't think it was unreasonable 
> that *others* thought the Dark Lord dead.  Maybe LV really 
> did 'entrust' her with his most precious... secret?

Carol responds:
Clearly he confided something to her that he apparently shared with
few others, probably to reward and maintain her loyalty and make her
think she knew more than she did. Tie that in with her attempt to find
out the whereabouts of her master by torturing the Longbottoms and
IMO, the secret can be only one thing: he told her about *one*
Horcrux. I'm betting that it was the locket and that she helped hide
it. If Kreacher was in on the secret (he adores Miss Bellatrix) and
Kreacher (under a magical obligation to obey any member of the Black
family) revealed what the knew to Regulus, then Regulus had a way of
finding out about the locket Horcrux. It all makes sense to me.

Also, Bellatrix would think that she knew more than Snape about LV's
attempts to make himself immortal and would have accepted his
statement (almost certainly a lie, IMO) that he believed Voldemort to
be dead.

Carol, hoping that the locket Horcrux will be found and destroyed
rather quickly, probably with the help of Bill Weasley