The Green Goo Again - lockets confusion

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 165838

"zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
 
> I'm confused! I've always thought that Harry noticed the difference 
> between the fake locket that fell from DD's pocket and the real 
> Slytherin's locket that he (Harry) saw in the Pensieve, in Ogden's 
> memory, not the difference between the locket from DD's pocket and the 
> locket DD took from the basin (I still think it's the same locket, but 
> this is not the point). 
> 
 <snipping the rest>

colebiancardi:  

You are not confused - you are correct!!  From Flight of the Prince,
HBP, Am Ed Hardcover, page 609:
"He turned the locket over in his hands.  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."

from The Cave, pg 567 - "...but then he saw that the light was coming
from a stone basin rather like the Pensive, which was set on top of a
pedestal."  

same chapter, pg 574 "He {Harry} leapt to his feet and seized the
goblet he had dropped in the basin; he barely registered the golden
locket lying curled beneath it."

same chapter, pg 576 "Dumbledore scooped the locket from the bottom of
the stone basin and stowed it inside his robes"

The only time Harry got a good look at the locket was in the Pensive -
Lord Voldemort's Request, p 437 
"There upon the smooth crimson velvet lay a heavy golden locket. 
Voldemort reached out his hand, without invitation this time, and held
it up to the light, staring at it. 
"Slytherin's mark," he said quietly, as the light played upon an
ornate, serpentine S.

Harry noticed the locket in the Pensive, not in the stone basin.  I
would also like to point out that the stone basin, although it looked
very similar to a Pensive to Harry, he never refers to it as such


colebiancardi