Or, in other words, the refined version of the theories I've been expounding on for the past week or so, in one handy linkable place (for those of you who've been asking if they could link). Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions, objections, and questions for me to answer -- the idea has been much improved and refined in the process.
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The [Hor]crux of the Matter: An Essay With Many Spoilers )
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Dumbledore said it wasn't a case of size, it was a case of magical ability. Unless Voldemort's spell mysteriously lacked the ability to sense Peter's magical powers once he became a rat (which would be quite the oversight, as I'm sure Voldemort knew about animagi), then Peter would be just as sunk in rat form as he would have been in his human one.
it's a lot of information to go through in order to tell us not a whole lot in Book 7, if the locket and RAB are essentially meaningless to what's going on.
But they're not meaningless. The locket was legitimately a horcrux, and RAB legitimately and heroically destroyed it, which is very important in terms of Harry's quest to find and destroy all the horcruxes before he faces Voldemort. Plus, Regulus Black's story may well tie into Snape's, which would make it doubly significant.
Still, I agree there are various theories possible and we won't know until we get Book 7. I just feel confident that I'm at least ( ... )
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It is possible that Dumbledore was unwittingly drinking the soul-essence of someone other than Voldemort, someone who had feelings of guilt and shame and concern for others. But I'm not sure who that person would be or how/why their essence would get into the basin.
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A young, naive no-longer-wanting-to-be-Death Eater would certainly feel a great deal of guilt...
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Kreacher.
Not a full wizard, certainly, but with definate powers of his own.
We don't know when Mrs. Black died in the grand scheme of things, but I've always beleived that she started to go around the bend and took a turn for the worse soon after Sirius ran away from home. If Regulus had control of Kreacher (as Harry now does), he would have had a second person to come with him into the caves ( ... )
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OOTP, US edition, page 102
Mrs. Weasley says
...what that house-elf's been doing for the last ten years--"
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You know, it occurs to me now that Voldemort probably knows about the diary being destroyed, since Harry gave it back to Lucius visibly damaged. Wouldn't it make sense for Voldemort to make yet another Horcrux, knowing that one had been destroyed?
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1. Lord Thingy has tried to kill him multiple times--not what you would expect if killing Harry would destroy one of the Horcruxes, on which Thingy's immortality depends.
2. Dumbledore repeatedly tells Harry that Voldemort can't really enter Harry's mind without "mortal agony" I believe it was, because of Harry's love and goodness, and before the end of GoF, he can't touch Harry's body even. How could this be true if a part of his soul was already in Harry?
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I've already posted this link at two separate HBP discussion places so the movement can be spread.
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