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SpoiLer...!!!
i guess that will suffice? lols... ok, well i don't really think this is a BIG spoiler, but why take chances anyway... so, on with it!
ok, firstly thanks to albusdumbledore and others for posting info on why dumby can NOT be dead...
all those who have read HP-HBP will obviously be wondering who RAB is, and some of us are pretty sure it's Regulus Black, Sirius' brother... so if RAB stole the real horcrux locket, what did he do with it??? the answer lies in the book itself... the note within the locket says that RAB, or "regulus (as we believe)" has DESTROYED the horcrux...
now, we also know that, as sirius told harry, regulus was killed under voldemort's orders... sirius called him a coward, a weakling... if this is so, how did this coward and weakling manage to procure and destroy a horcrux that was so well protected that even dumbledore was greatly weakened when trying to get at it? sirius can't have had such a wrong judgement of his OWN brother's character and ability... sure, there's always the possibility that RAB could well be someone else, not regulus black... but the initials seem to fit na??? never mind...
but what was it that regulus did to earn voldemort's wrath...? it can't've been destroying the horcrux... because sirius says that he, regulus, was too unimportant to be killed by voldemort in person... but then, destroying a horcrux is something that could make voldemort's blood boil... but then again ( i know this is getting very VERY confusing), RAB only intended Voldemort to know that the horcrux had been destroyed when voldemort OPENED the locket... which means that there was no way Voldy could have known that his horcrux had been destroyed... this is sooo simple and un-complicated, isn't it?
ok, now let's think about the heavy locket that harry, sirius and the weasleys found when purging the Black ancestral home, no. 12 grimmauld place... could this very locket be the one that regulus took from the inferius guarded lake? of course, that's ASSUMING regulus is the elusive RAB... if this is so... could the piece of soul still be inside the locket, or had regulus destroyed it somehow...
it fits that the slytherin locket should be found in the BLACK "mansion" because after all sirius' family had been in slytherin for generations... save himself of course...
but as harry and gang, especially sirius, wanted to rid the house of all it's monstrous antiques and things, they obviously dumped the locket and other things somewhere, without taking much care to see if these things would be safe from Kreacher, who had a TENDENCY to save all the old artifacts and relics sirius so despised... so, now that the house belongs to harry, and if the locket is in Kreacher's possession, and Harry remembered this incident, he could easily get the locket and destroy it, if need be...
but all these points are based on the simple ASSUMPTIONS that:
1) RAB = Regulus A. Black
2) the locket in question is the ex- (or otherwise) horcrux...
what are your opinions on this?š