Opal Necklace and Dumbledore

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 169712

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "limerent4ever" <> 
> I was mentioning the card only to show what Draco would see
> the necklace as good for and that it states that it causes
> *muggle* deaths.  Since Dumbledore is not a muggle my question
> is what did Draco expect to happen to Dumbledore?
> 
> Interesting stuff about opals.  I hadn't heard about that before.
> 
> Thanks!

Leah

My entirely speculative take on this is that the opal necklace was 
made by a Dark Witch or Wizard and loosed on the muggle world, in 
the same way that the muggle artifacts that Arthur Weasley has to 
deal with find their way into the hands of unsuspecting muggles. The 
necklace would have been handed down or sold to various muggles, 
thereby no doubt attracting a legend, as mentioned previously. 
Burgin or Burke got to hear of the necklace and reclaimed it for the 
Wizarding World.  It would kill wizards as well as muggles, it's 
just that it has primarily existed in the muggle world.

Leah