RAB case is broken - all Aurors please read!

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 153629

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, puduhepa98 at ... wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Neri:
> It seems to me that the simplest RAB scenario that works  with all 
the
> different sources we have would be something like  this:
> 
> <big snip>
> 
> 
> The only problem I see with this  scenario is in (2): how could
> Regulus, a beginner DE, discover Voldemort's  secret and, 
furthermore,
> penetrate all the cave defenses?
> 
> The most  likely answer to that is Kreacher. Perhaps Voldemort had
> borrowed Kreacher  when he went to hide the locket in the cave, to 
do
> all the menial work for  him (it wouldn't be like Lord Voldemort 
to do
> that  himself).
> <snip>
> Nikkalmati: 
> 
> There is a way to avoid the significant problems associated with 
how  RAB 
> could penetrate the cave and retrieve the locket as a young 18-
year-old  student. 
>  He also would have to replace the potion and I am not even sure  
why he 
> would want to.  As discussed in an earlier thread, I prefer to  
believe that Bella 
> was given the job of placing the locket in the cave.  In  
Spinner's End she 
> says something like "he even trusted me with his  most 
precious . .  . " at 
> which point she in interrupted.  I  think that is a clue she was 
in charge of the 
> necklace.  RAB found out from  Bella, perhaps by accident, about 
the horcrux 
> and made the switch of  necklaces at Grimauld Place.  

SNIP

. RAB  put the necklace away and was killed before he could do 
anything 
> with it 

SNIP



> Nikkalmati


Randy replies...

I like this or the opposite roles for Bellatrix and RAB.  Voldemort 
gives RAB the job to help put the locket in the bowl in the Cave.  
Regulus does not know what is inside, but he now knows the defenses 
set up to protect it.  A good idea to give this job to someone who 
is young and probably won't ask you too many questions.

However, Bellatrix gets the "most precious..." information from 
Voldemort who must tell someone about his horcruxes.  She does not 
know where they are, but she knows what they are.  One night on the 
terrace at the Black's mansion during their anniversary or something 
like that, Bellatrix has a few too many and blabs to Regulus about 
the horcruxes.  After all, he is family and a DE and he is too 
unimportant to be a threat to her position with Voldy.  

Regulus puts two and two together and decides to go retrieve the 
horcrux in the Cave.  Besides, Kreacher likes both of them and can 
hang out with either one to help out as needed.

Bellatrix goes looking for horcruxes after the Potter incident to 
try to revive her master.  She goes after Neville's parents who she 
has learned from RAB may know something (RAB is now dead).  Voldy is 
missing, and she wants him back.

Someone else had this idea and alot more elaborate connections in a 
link I posted at the end of May.

Either way, RAB and Bellatrix make a likely connection between 
horcruxes and the cave. Voldy's idea was to have the left hand not 
know what the right hand is doing.

Randy