You know how we assumed that he'd gone off somewhere because he couldn't take Voldemort's torture anymore and ... and killed himself?
Well.
We were right. Only, he didn't stop there.
Moony, he took the locket - the one Pansy and I have been looking for - he used it to switch it with the one that she and Sally-Anne and Ron and Harry just destroyed. The horcrux.
He took Kreacher with him, found this - cave, I suppose, Kreacher said, with a lake and an island in the centre - and he made Kreacher feed him poison out of a sort of bowl they found, in the middle, until they got to the bottom where the locket was. Then he had Kreacher make the switch and told him to leave, to come back here and destroy it and never to tell our mother, or anyone else in the Council, what Reg had done.
He was already dying from the poison but Kreacher said that the cave had another surprise. The lake was full of - of inferi. Voldemort must have planted them there over a course of years, maybe out of all the people he'd killed on his way to power, since I guess this hiding place had been there a long time.
Anyway.
He ordered Kreacher to abandon him. Kreacher saw him trying to drink water from the shore. And the inferi ....
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You know how we assumed that he'd gone off somewhere because he couldn't take Voldemort's torture anymore and ... and killed himself?
Well.
We were right. Only, he didn't stop there.
Moony, he took the locket - the one Pansy and I have been looking for - he used it to switch it with the one that she and Sally-Anne and Ron and Harry just destroyed. The horcrux.
He took Kreacher with him, found this - cave, I suppose, Kreacher said, with a lake and an island in the centre - and he made Kreacher feed him poison out of a sort of bowl they found, in the middle, until they got to the bottom where the locket was. Then he had Kreacher make the switch and told him to leave, to come back here and destroy it and never to tell our mother, or anyone else in the Council, what Reg had done.
He was already dying from the poison but Kreacher said that the cave had another surprise. The lake was full of - of inferi. Voldemort must have planted them there over a course of years, maybe out of all the people he'd killed on his way to power, since I guess this hiding place had been there a long time.
Anyway.
He ordered Kreacher to abandon him. Kreacher saw him trying to drink water from the shore. And the inferi ....
So. Now we know what happened.