The bloody axe

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 148946

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bee Chase <luckdragon64 at ...> 
wrote:
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> Luckdragon responded:
> I think the axe belongs to The Bloody Baron. I believe the horcrux is
> the tiara which belonged to Rowena Ravenclaw.
> 

Allie again:

Ah, good thought!  I always assumed the Baron was covered in his own 
blood, but I guess it could be someone else's blood!  Is there any 
canon one way or the other?  An interview I've missed somewhere?  The 
Baron is on my list of "throwaway characters & information that could 
become something important."  Then again, even if the axe does belong 
to the Baron, that backstory might be buried somewhere in JKR's 
notebooks and never see the light of day.

Nods to Carol, who noted that Macnair has been in every book since 
PoA.  The Room of Requirement has ALSO been in every book since PoA 
(but wasn't actually in PoA).  Now I'm imagining a teenaged Macnair 
running around Hogwarts murdering things/people and then stowing his 
axe in the RoR!  The impression I got when reading the text was that 
the axe was OLD, though that doesn't have to be true (rusting swords 
are described immediately before it but the axe is only described as 
heavy and bloodstained).