Harry's accio in the cave

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No: HPFGUIDX 165636





--Snow Wrote--
>>>I'm going with a very quick response here but didn't Dumbledore 
have an 
>ability to acknowledge traces of magic? 

>We know that Dumbledore has come into contact, quite recently in 
fact, 
>with one of Voldemort's Horcruxes...so wouldn't it stand to reason 
that 
>Dumbledore knew that the Locket in the potion held a Voldy Horcrux?

>Dumbledore isn't easily outfoxed is he? 

--Ronin's Comments--
I guess that because of his weakened condition and having to 
concentrate on
keeping the inferi at bay, he wasn't able to sense traces of magic on 
the
locket. He also wasn't looking for traces because he probably assumed 
it was
the locket he had been after. With all of the trouble to get it, he 
wouldn't
have expected it to be a fake until there was more time to examine it 
and
destroy the horcrux.
At least, that would be my guess. Assuming that Dumbledore has to
concentrate to feel the traces of magic and it's not just something he
senses naturally.

Snow again:

Before Dumbledore had taken any of the potion to cause his weakened 
condition, Harry asked:

"You think the Horcrux is in there, sir?"
"Oh yes." Dumbledore peered more closely into the basin.  HBP pg. 568 
U.S.

Dumbledore acts, I would say the majority of the times, very 
evasively like `I believe it to be' but on this specific occasion 
Dumbledore answers with an emphatic yes. Dumbledore appears to be 
absolutely certain that the Horcrux is in the basin. 

I'm going to agree that the Horcrux locket was definitely in this 
basin. Harry had momentarily caught a glimpse of it:

"...He barely registered the golden locket lying curled beneath it" 
HBP pg. 574

The next time Harry had come into contact with the locket he 
recognized "there was something wrong":

"This was neither as large as the locket he remembered seeing in the 
Pensieve, nor were there any markings upon it, no sign of the ornate 
S that was supposed to be Slytherin's mark." HBP pg. 609

There was a note inside this false locket that fell out of 
Dumbledore's pocket which of course was signed RAB.

Ok now for my dramatic conclusion...drum roll please...The locket 
that had the note in it belonged to Albus Dumbledore who was going to 
leave it in place of the real locket that had been taken but being in 
such distress at the time he procured the Horcrux locket, he failed 
to leave this fake locket in its place. 

The only thing I truly find missing in this scenario is that 
Dumbledore is missing the first initial used when signing the note. 
The man had five names and none of them begin with R. 

Oh yeah, where is the real locket...with the only possible person who 
could have it...Madam Rosmerta. She was the only person who came into 
contact with Dumbledore close enough for him to have given it to. She 
may not even know it...but I'll bet his brother somehow does!

When Dumbledore became aware of the Dark Mark over Hogwarts and all 
it could entail, he left the locket with the only person he could 
incase something happened at Hogwarts to Harry or himself and the 
locket may fall into the wrong hands...Voldemort's. This would alert 
Voldemort to the plan of breaching his immortality measures. 

Ronin:

I wonder about Dumbledore's mad ramblings while drinking the potion. 
It
seemed like odd hallucinations to Harry, but maybe it was actually
Dumbledore being forced to relive his worst memories. Like one of his 
big
mistakes had placed someone else into harm's way. I wonder if this 
was the
case and if so, if it had something to do with Harry's parents and 
why he
trusts Snape without question.

Snow:

This one is totally up for grabs! 

Dumbledore does have a hidden past with very few clues to it. The man 
has five first names; he has a brother who Albus is not sure whether 
or not can read; we know he feels strongly about making uninfluenced 
choices; when he took his NEWT's, he had done things that the 
examiner was astounded by and we also know he gives people, that no 
one else would, the benefit of doubt...the second chance. Something 
happened in Dumbledore's past to allow for such behavior I would 
think. 

Dumbledore could have been reliving his own memory. Something in 
Dumbledore's life experience allows him to view people differently 
than most would and give them that second chance. Maybe someone 
influenced young Albus into making a bad decision the first time 
round and maybe someone gave Dumbledore a second chance to get it 
right. 

This could be Dumbledore's ramblings from a past he never wanted to 
relive.

I'm sure we will find out very soon

Snow