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

[Patricia Hurley]

No: HPFGUIDX 153931

Chrusotoxos:
> Why didn't Dumbledore tell her about Horcruxes? 

Nick:
>> Dumbledore can't people that he knows about the horcruxes. What 
if Voldemort catches them and forces them through legilmency to 
reveal all they know? Game's up. <snip>

Dumbledore did tell one other person: Snape. Snape's skills as an 
occulmens would make him the only person that Dumbledore would be 
able to trust with that information. The fact that Snape knows 
about the Horcruxes and Voldemort hasn't acted on it would be a very 
good indication that Snape is 1) trustworthy and 2) capable of 
closing his mind to the Dark Lord.

Also I don't buy the Bellatrix told Regulus theory. 
R.A.B. "discovered" the secret. The word choice does not jive with 
a blundering exchange of confidence. <<


Patricia:
I definitely think that Dumbledore was too bright to tell every non-
DE about the horcruxes. Just because MM didn't know doesn't mean that
she is evil. Knowing LV's power as an Legilmency expert he would 
never tell anyone who would create a liability, even his close friend 
Minerva. I have also seen some comments about who else knows about 
the Horcuxes. Here's my thoughts:
   
  1. LV told a different DE about each Horcrux except for the 
mysterious unknown one (perhaps Snape knows about this one?!?!) but 
he didn't reveal the importance of them. In this way the secrets are 
all protected but not exposed to a great number of people. Lucius 
knew about the diary (even if he didn't understand the power of it). 
Perhaps Bellatrix knew about the locket and told Regulus or perhaps 
Regulus was told by LV himself. Why would LV tell such a lowly DE? 
Because....
   
  2. Every death DE thinks he or she is the most loyal and important. 
We see this theme over and over again. Perhaps RAB really was in the 
inner circle and the other DEs didn't know or failed to realize or 
assumed he wasn't when he turned on them.
   
  3. Perhaps RAB was doing a secret angent job for DD. That would 
explain his sudden change of loyalites. 
   
  4. How are we certain that Snape knows? I must have missed this 
indicator. Please share.