[HPforGrownups] Regulus Black / locket / horcrux

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 160493

>Danielle wrote:

>Remember in the OotP that they found a  locket
>in Grimmauld Place and none of them could open it? Would it  be
>possible that it was the real locket horcrux? But, on the  other
>hand, we all know that Regulus Black was "dead" (if he  really
>is).

>Jodi responds:

>I wonder if anyone ever  mentioned this on this list. If so, please
>accept my apology for being  repetitive. I only just thought of it
>while I read her post. What if  Regulus Black was killed by Voldemort
-> before he created the  horcrux-locket?
<snip>

Nikkalmati:
Welcome neighbor ! <g>.  The listees have discussed the locket  and RAB at 
some length in the past.  The consensus is that RAB is Sirius'  brother Regulus. 
 Most agree that the locket at Grimauld Place is likely to  be the Slytherin 
locket LV stolen from Hepzibah after he killed her.  That  means the locket 
was made into a Horcrux very early, most likely even before LV  came to DD to 
apply for a position at Hogwarts in 1957??? Regulus was younger  than Sirius and 
the Marauders. Therefore, RAB would have been a very  young child at the 
time.  We don't know when RAB was killed, but it was  before Godric's Hollow when 
he would have been about 19 or so. RAB had time  to steal the real locket and 
replace it with a fake before he died, if it was  not given to Bella to place 
in the cave before he became a DE at 18 or  so.   Bella certainly was not 
given the job of placing it in the cave  until she was old enough to  be given the 
job. She was possibly 6 years  older than Sirius.  Where then was the locket 
hidden all that time (between  say 1950 and 1979)?  I have the same problem 
with the Diary Horcrux.   Where was it kept before LV gave it to Lucius? 
 
BTW is it possible that RAB "got to" some of the other Horcruxes and one or  
more of them is in the House of Black or has already been destroyed?
 
Nikkalmati



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