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[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166595

Carol earlier:
>  
> > Harry is wearing the Slytherin locket (presumably the same one
shown in the UK cover art but badly rendered), which probably means
that it's been de-Horcuxed even though it doesn't look cracked like
the ring. 
> 
Dondee:
> IMO Harry is wearing the fake horcrux locket that he and DD got out 
> of the cave.
> 
> "He felt in his pocket for the cold chain of the fake Horcrux, which 
> he now carried with him everywhere, not as a talisman, but as a 
> reminder of what it had cost and what remained still to do." HBP pg. 
> 639
> 
> It is an easy reach to have him wearing it around his neck now 
> instead of having to be always moving it when he changes clothes.

>

Carol responds:
Anything's possible, but I doubt that he'd wear the fake locket to
confront Voldemort. He'd more likely want to wear the real one to
taunt him with a destroyed Horcrux.

The fake locket has no design on it and could not be mistaken for the
Slytherin locket (presumably the one depicted on the UK adult
edition). Also, the real locket is larger and heavier than the fake
one, and I can't imagine a larger and heavier locket than the one
Harry is wearing. It's bigger than a pocket watch from the look of it
(a lot larger than I imagined it as being when I read HBP).

Bear in mind that by the time of this final confrontation, Harry will
need to have found and destroyed all the Horcruxes, of Voldemort can't
be killed. There would be no point at that late date to carry around
the smaller locket, which fits inconspicuously into his pocket, as a
reminder of his quest.

Carol, quite sure that this locket is the real Horcrux and almost as
sure that it's been opened and de-Horcruxed at that point in the story