More thinking about the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I think there's going to be yet another wild card in the Voldemort/Death Eater camp.
That's because there was a second person involved in stealing Voldemort's horcrux. When Dumbledore and Harry came out of the lake in The Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore remarked to Harry that one person could not have retrieved Slytherin's locket from the basin with the awful green potion. However, the locket taken by Dumbledore and Harry wasn't the real Slytherin locket concealing the horcrux. It was a fake.
That means that two other people originally stole the horcrux.
It seems evident that Regulus Black was one of the people who stole the horcrux. He would be the R. A. B. in the note left in the fake locket. The locket also showed up in Black's house in the Order of the Phoenix.
But who's the other person--the unknown person who helped steal the locket with Black. My view is that the unknown person is a disaffected "death-eater" within the Voldemort camp. A death-eater could become disaffected with Voldemort like Regulus Black did, but also decide to stay with the death eaters rather than be killed like Black. Such a death-eater might have even decided to go to Voldemort when his "dark mark" burned black on Voldemort's return rather than be hunted down like Igor Karkaroff.
That makes for several potentially disaffected people in the Voldemort camp. Wormtail owes Harry Potter his life and is oppressed within the death-eater camp. The Malfoys are tainted by the failures of Lucius and Draco in Voldemort's service. The loyalty of their sister-in-law Belatrix Lestrange to Voldemort has to be suspect as well. And finally, Severus Snape who is powerful enough now to be a rival to Voldemort.
That's an unwieldy group of death-eaters. Another wild care would spell significant trouble for Voldemort.
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