Bill and Snape and Horcruxes

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 165497

Carol earlier:
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>   <snip>But Snape is probably the only person aside from Bill
Weasley who can help Harry with Horcruxes and the only one who can
help him locate them. <snip>
>    
sweetophelia wrote:
>   Hi, I'm new here. Perhaps this comment refers to a previous
thread? If not, could you please explain your reasoning behind Bill
and Snape being the only ones who can help Harry with the Horcruxes?
Thanks.

Carol responds:
I'm not sure that the comment applies to any particular thread, but it
reflects my own assumptions, which I'm assuming are familiar to fellow
list members who have been around for awhile. To be brief, Bill
Weasley is a professional Curse Breaker. We haven't seen him at work,
but I expect his specialty to come in handy in DH. Since the ring
Horcrux had a curse on it, it seems likely that the locket (which most
of us assume is the same one that no one could open in OoP) and
probably the cup and Ravenclaw Horcruxes, are similarly protected. So,
just as I expect to see Charlie Weasley doing something related to
dragons in DH, I expect to see Bill Weasely doing a bit of
curse-breaking (and possibly a bit of liaisoning with Ragnok and the
other goblins, to follow up on a dropped name in OoP).

As for Snape, the Dark Arts/DADA expert and Healer, not to mention
Dumbledore's link to Voldemort, who saved Dumbledore from the curse on
the ring Horcrux, who is more likely than he to know about Horcruxes?
In fact, given his Dark Arts expertise and knowledge of Voldemort's
vaparization, in combination with Dumbledore's frequent expeditions in
HBP and the curse on the ring (which he surely saw when he was saving
DD), how can he not know about Horcruxes? In the unlikely event that
Dumbledore, who trusts him *completely* and wants his help and only
his after he drinks the poison in the cave, has not told him about the
Horcruxes, surely Snape, famous for putting two and two together, has
figured it out.

Carol, who recently posted her reasons for believing that Snape is
Dumbledore's man through and through if you're interested:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/165367