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Okay, I wasn't sure before, but right now I feel pretty darn sure that Snape's going to come down on the good side. Dumbledore wasn't wrong to trust him; Snape must have told Dumbledore about the Unbreakable Vow and Dumbledore must have agreed that Snape would have to kill him so that Draco wouldn't have to do it. That's why Dumbledore was pleading on the roof, he wanted Snape to do it so his death wouldn't be on Draco's conscience. There was a conversation, too, somewhere midway through the book, where Harry or someone overhears Snape asking Dumbledore to let him out of it--playing that deeply at being evil, and knowing he'd have to be responsible for killing Dumbledore if it came to it, were probably weighing on him pretty seriously. I wonder if Harry's going to be able to figure this out, and if so what he'll do.

And yeah, there's no way Ginny's going to let Harry go that easily.

Anyone have ideas on the other Horcruxes? What the unknown one is, where they might be hidden? Who RAB was? I'm betting it was Regulus Black--that's definitely the best guess I've heard so far--who probably didn't die when everyone thought he did, but who is most certainly dead now considering the house belongs to Harry. And Regulus did break with Voldemort and made it "several days" apparently before Voldemort caught up with him--that's what somebody said at the beginning, they were talking about Karkaroff's body being found but compared it to Regulus, that must have been there for a reason.

I am of the opinion that the "Harry himself is a Horcrux" idea is preposterous.

Based on what we know about Voldemort's life, where were the important places where he might hide a Horcrux? The Chamber of Secrets, but that was the diary; the Gaunt house, but that was the ring. The locket had been in the cave where he'd taken those children; it makes sense to me that Slytherin's locket would be in a cave. Where else was important to Voldemort? The Riddle house? We knew he was hiding out there for a while, but would he have hidden a Horcrux there? Too obvious, I think, and with the Gaunt house being so nearby he wouldn't have wanted two Horcruxes within such close proximity. And Dumbledore would have thought to check there. Voldemort wouldn't use the orphanage, he hated it there. Maybe there's something in Borgin and Burke's? Maybe there's something in the Black house? That either Voldemort gave to Regulus when he was still a Death Eater, or that Regulus stole afterward. Maybe Bellatrix is keeping something without knowing what it is that she's got?

Well, we'll know for sure on Saturday, at least.