Question about Horcrux?

[ClareWashbrook at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 153210

 
honeykissed246 at yahoo.com writes:
> Could this be one of the reasons Dumbledore trusts Snape?   

No.  That's fuzzy logic.  If Dumbledore trusted Snape because he 
had gone into the cave with Regulus Black to retrieve the horcrux 
then they would already have the horcrux, they would not have just 
found out about it and there would be no need to go through it all 
again.  If Snape had gone but Black had hidden the locket and Snape 
knew where it was, then again there would be no need to go because 
they would be heading for the hiding place instead.  If no-one knew 
where it was then there would still be no point in  going because 
the one thing that they would have known was that it wasn't *there*.  
 
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.
 
smiles, 
Clare xx