Tom Riddle and the RoR (Was: Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the Deathstick)

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No: HPFGUIDX 181696

Carol, I think, solves the problem in her sign off:

<<Carol, who thinks that Tom must have thought that, with all the junk
in the room, no one would pay any attention to a tarnished tiara,
whose true nature as a Horcrux they would never guess>>

I think that's exactly right. What we have here is just like the solution to Poe's "The Purloined 
Letter". The diadem was "hidden in plain sight".

Ross