Suspect List for RAB (Re: His Little Helper)

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:

> Jen: So I'm thinking we need to put together a suspect list here. 
> 
> 1) Borgin, for reasons stated above.
> 
> 2) Uncle Alphard Black. We know he made some gold, got wiped off 
the 
> family tree. Liked rebel Sirius enough to leave him everything. Not 
> much else to go on. Except he would have been much closer to 
> Riddle's age and he died during the middle of the first war. 
> Wouldn't explain why Voldemort didn't know his locket was stolen if 
> it happened while he was still in body form.
> 
> 3) Binns. Death could be consistent with posioning from what we 
know-
> -sat in front of the staff room fire, went to sleep and woke up 
> dead. Was he tired after a long night in the cave drinking poison? 
> No idea when he died. But he does have an extensive knowledge of 
> history, including a very precise account of the COS. Downside is 
no evidence whatsoever he would be capable of the type of magic 
> required to get the locket.
> 
> 4) Bertie Bott. Robert Bott, perhaps? ;)
>  
> 5) Ali Bashir. Longshot. Smuggler of stolen goods. Hey, his 
initials worked, 'kay?
> 
> Jen, wondering if we'll go through all this theorizing only to find 
> out it's a character we never met.

Carolyn:
Great minds etc! I just drew up the very same list and was going to 
post it. The other person I found was one of the children that Tom 
took to that cave, Amy Benson. It's cheating as she would have to 
have another first name, and recovered from her experiences, and turn 
out to be a powerful witch... 

All fairly unlikely, but she was on the spot, in the library with the 
candlestick as it were [do you have Cluedo in the US??]. Or maybe it 
was her long-lost warlock brother, Roger Albert Benson, avenging his 
sister who whispered what happened to her on her deathbed, only hours 
after he finally discovers her, having searched London orphanages for 
years now that he is rich and can look after them all..

Oh, sorry, stepped through the Dickens prose portal by mistake. I'll 
go and lie down.

Carolyn