Who knows about Horcuxes? (Was: Minerva and Tom: 6 theories)

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 153888

Chrusotoxos now

> 1. Why didn't Dumbledore tell her about Horcruxes? 
> Horcruxes are the key to destroy LV. Nobody knows about them, not
> even DE, except for one RAB who has been dead for years and a fat 
> teacher who doesn't want to remember and has no proof. If LV knew
> that DD was pursuing that line of thought, he would undoubtedly
> protect himself in another way. 

Amiable Dorsai:

I think this analysis is great, except that I'll bet that at least
some current DEs know something about Horcruxes--specifically, I think
Bellatrix knows that he's made one.

She was convinced, after all, that Voldy was coming back, and she even
tried to make it happen, going so far as to torture the Longbottoms in
order to discover Vapormort's whereabouts.

Going further out on a limb, I think the Horcrux she knows about is
the locket.  Trixie likes to boast.  I've got a feeling she said a
little too much to her cousin Regulus.  How else would a low-level
Death Eater like Regulus know such important info?  

So long as I'm multiplying assumptions, I'm going to guess that
Trixie--or any other Death Eater--only knows that there is one
Horcrux, not six.  Why else would RAB believe that destroying one
Horcrux was sufficient to make Voldemort mortal?

I hear the limb I'm out on cracking behind me, but I'm going to inch
out just a bit more and guess that Tommy is compartmentalizing what he
tells his Toerags--that different DEs know different things. Lucius
knew about the Diary, even if he didn't know it was a Horcrux, for
example.

I wonder what Voldy has told Snape?  I wonder what Snape has deduced?

Amiable Dorsai