Question about Horcrux?

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 153213

Clare:
> What I would ask is why was it not destroyed at the time and what 
> does the fact that it wasn't imply?  Personally I think it implies 
> that RAB wasn't all that commited to the Light; one would only keep 
> something like that if one intended to use it as a bargaining tool.

Ceridwen:
You may be right about that, it's certainly something I haven't 
thought of before.  But there are possible other answers, too, as you 
indicate.

The one I think is most plausible is that R.A.B. was Regulus Black; 
he left the Death Eaters after becoming disillusioned for some reason 
or other (something he was ordered to do that he couldn't stomach, 
dawning awareness of the wrongness of LV's rule, name your scenario); 
he somehow has discovered the secret of the locket horcrux and 
somehow overcomes the obstacles and takes it back to number 12.

This is his last action as a Death Eater as much as it is his first 
action as a fugitive from LV's thugs.  He didn't destroy the locket 
because he didn't figure out how to do it before he was killed.  
Remus Lupin says in HBP, pg 106 US Scholastic hardcover: "...Sirius's 
brother, Regulus, only managed a few days* as far as I can remember."

*before he was killed

Ceridwen.