Percy / KREACHER / Snape / Poison / Harry

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 180141

---  Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> On 2007, Dec 30, , at 13:44, Steve wrote:
> 
> >> Allie wrote in
> >> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180073>:
> >>
> >> << Here's a creepy thought - I can see Voldemort checking
> >> and double checking his protections. Maybe Regulus wasn't
> >> the only one asked, ...>>
> >>
> >> Maybe he used humans under the Imperius Curse to drink the
> >> poison the other times.
> >>
> >
> > bboyminn:
> >
> > I don't think so. That would be like hiding a treasure that
> > you didn't want anyone to find, then returning to it all the
> > time and bringing a friend with you. That is not how you keep
> > a secret. I think once the enchantments were in place, he
> > would trust them to do the job. ...

> Laura:
> 
> How did all the Inferi get into the lake in the cave?  Did
> Voldemort bring them there?  Banish them there?
> 
> Laura
> -- 


bboyminn:

I'm assuming what you are getting at is that the many Inferi
are the bodies of people Voldemort brought with him when
he came to check the Locket. I suspect it is possible that
/some/ of them are, but also note that according to the books,
Voldemort had great armies of Inferi at his command during
the first war. So, I really don't think there was any 
shortage. 

I also suspect that some of them are just random wizards who
wandered in wondering why such an obscure and seemly 
meaningless cave had such a powerful aura of magic about it. 
When they went in to explore, one or more of the protective 
enchantment got them.

I don't see any reason to suspect they were all living 
individual brought there by Voldemort to keep testing his
protections. I think more likely they were just a small
portion of his existing army of Inferi.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn