Lockets

[Adan]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

*Snippage of wonderful locket logic*
 
> This nifty bit of spellwork tends to militate against Reggy - he 
was younger than Sirius, no more than very early 20s at most. Would 
he have the power, the knowledge, the experience to set it all up? 
Maybe - if he had help. Dear old dad, perhaps? He's a fan of Dark 
Magic.
> 
> The alternative is that Voldy set up all that protection, and when  
> some little gofer drops the locket in the bird-bath it somehow 
causes the spells to activate. But why? Why would Voldy hide this 
particular artifact behind a screen of Dark Magic? Is it special? And 
would the spells activate for a fake?
> 
> In any event, would Voldy trust a beginner-DE (if it was Reggie) 
to perform this important errand unsupervised? That doesn't sound 
like Voldy, he'd use someone he trusted. (See below for a canon hint 
that this was what he intended but his 'trusted' hench-wizards - 
Bella and Lucius -may have cocked it up somehow.)

*more snippage*
> 
> Kneasy

Just like everyone else, I've been giving this some thought here's my 
theory as it stands now: RAB was the DE that Voldemort ordered to 
place the locket in the cave.  It could have even been PFC Reggie, 
done as a test.  But, since this was so important, LV didn't have him 
go it alone.  He *did* have supervision.  Perhaps one of his trusted, 
with a small unit DEs (and RAB), trekked to the already completely 
enchanted cave to drop in the locket.  RAB, having decided that being 
a lackey wasn't all that great, had switched the lockets in a spare 
minute alone.  They place the locket and the burglar alarm activates.

Unfortunately for the squad, they didn't know it was a one-way trip.  
Those inferi had to come from some where and I don't think they added 
them later.  I think they were DEs that died for their master, 
willingly or not.

As to why the cave, why dark magic...  Perhaps this was the one he 
thought never to be found.  Who would even know the existance of that 
cave?  LV, the two kids (probably muggle), Mrs. Cole (a muggle), and 
that darned DD.

Adan, who also likes to think RAB stands for Remus and Bob.