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Cut for spoileriness.
Much is being made of the initials R.A.B. signed to the note Harry found inside the fake locket. Of course, these are Regulus Black's initials, which makes him the obvious candidate for the note's author. My question is this - why would someone who discovered the secret of Voldemort's immortality, even if said person imagined he might soon be dead, give himself away like that? Or give away the fact that anyone had discovered the mere existence of Voldemort's horcrux(es)? Sure seems like a strategic misstep to me; after all, the less your enemy realises you know about him, the better for your side. And it would be an easy job for Voldemort, once he read the note, to track down anyone R.A.B. might have told about the horcruxes and eliminate them. I don't think we can rule out the possibility that this note is a red herring, intentionally meant to mislead, especially given that its supposed author is already dead. Of course, we'll have no way of knowing for certain until the next book, but I do find the possibility intriguing. Thoughts?
Byzantine like woah.
Having now had a shower during which to think about this further, who's to say that Voldemort didn't plant the locket himself? I was pretty surprised, while reading the relevant chapters, that Voldemort himself didn't appear to do so something about the assault on his immortality. Really surprised. You'd think one of the first measures someone hiding a horcrux would take is to create some sort of method by which he could be warned if the security of said horcrux was being compromised. Certainly Dumbledore himself seems to think this: "Lord Voldemort would not want to kill the person who reached this island.' And on the next page, '...I should have said, he would not want immediately to kill the person who reached this island,' Dumbledore corrected himself. 'He would want to keep them alive long enough to find out how they managed to penetrate so far through his defences and, most importanly of all, why they were so intent upon emptying the basin.'
Which raises the question, why wouldn't Voldemort step in to do anything? At that point in the narrative, I was fully expecting another Dumbledore v. Voldemort showdown, a la OoP. So why did it never come?
What if Voldemort himself had planted the fake horcrux? It certainly seems convenient that Dumbledore managed to locate one so soon after Harry retrieved Slughorn's memory. What if Voldemort didn't show up (or failed to reveal himself) precisely because he know Dumbledore was going to go through with poisoning himself? He was killing two birds with one stone - if Harry got Voldemort back to Hogwarts, he could test Draco's and/or Snape's loyalty, and if not, hey, Dumbledore would still be dead shortly. What if the initials are there not to give Voldemort the runaround, but to send the Order off on a wild goose chase?
And if the above is true, who's to say that Dumbledore didn't already know about all of this through Snape? If one assumes that Dumbledore was already dying from the poison in his arm, what would stop him from using Voldemort's fake horcrux against him to plan the time and manner of his death so that it would best benefit the Light? Could this perhaps be what Snape wasn't sure he wanted to go through with? I'm really intrigued with this idea, and will give it more thought after tonight's enkai.
これで以上です
Much is being made of the initials R.A.B. signed to the note Harry found inside the fake locket. Of course, these are Regulus Black's initials, which makes him the obvious candidate for the note's author. My question is this - why would someone who discovered the secret of Voldemort's immortality, even if said person imagined he might soon be dead, give himself away like that? Or give away the fact that anyone had discovered the mere existence of Voldemort's horcrux(es)? Sure seems like a strategic misstep to me; after all, the less your enemy realises you know about him, the better for your side. And it would be an easy job for Voldemort, once he read the note, to track down anyone R.A.B. might have told about the horcruxes and eliminate them. I don't think we can rule out the possibility that this note is a red herring, intentionally meant to mislead, especially given that its supposed author is already dead. Of course, we'll have no way of knowing for certain until the next book, but I do find the possibility intriguing. Thoughts?
Byzantine like woah.
Having now had a shower during which to think about this further, who's to say that Voldemort didn't plant the locket himself? I was pretty surprised, while reading the relevant chapters, that Voldemort himself didn't appear to do so something about the assault on his immortality. Really surprised. You'd think one of the first measures someone hiding a horcrux would take is to create some sort of method by which he could be warned if the security of said horcrux was being compromised. Certainly Dumbledore himself seems to think this: "Lord Voldemort would not want to kill the person who reached this island.' And on the next page, '...I should have said, he would not want immediately to kill the person who reached this island,' Dumbledore corrected himself. 'He would want to keep them alive long enough to find out how they managed to penetrate so far through his defences and, most importanly of all, why they were so intent upon emptying the basin.'
Which raises the question, why wouldn't Voldemort step in to do anything? At that point in the narrative, I was fully expecting another Dumbledore v. Voldemort showdown, a la OoP. So why did it never come?
What if Voldemort himself had planted the fake horcrux? It certainly seems convenient that Dumbledore managed to locate one so soon after Harry retrieved Slughorn's memory. What if Voldemort didn't show up (or failed to reveal himself) precisely because he know Dumbledore was going to go through with poisoning himself? He was killing two birds with one stone - if Harry got Voldemort back to Hogwarts, he could test Draco's and/or Snape's loyalty, and if not, hey, Dumbledore would still be dead shortly. What if the initials are there not to give Voldemort the runaround, but to send the Order off on a wild goose chase?
And if the above is true, who's to say that Dumbledore didn't already know about all of this through Snape? If one assumes that Dumbledore was already dying from the poison in his arm, what would stop him from using Voldemort's fake horcrux against him to plan the time and manner of his death so that it would best benefit the Light? Could this perhaps be what Snape wasn't sure he wanted to go through with? I'm really intrigued with this idea, and will give it more thought after tonight's enkai.
これで以上です