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Before you run at my mentioning Harry Potter again, let me run this conjecture across you. In The Order of the Phoenix, Harry spends time ridding the house of dark objects. He helps spray doxicide at a pair of doxy-infested curtains, and then later, helps remove all of the dark artifacts from a cabinent in the same room. They find a silver snuffbox filled with wortcap powder, a large bottle of something that looks like blood, and a heavy locket that none of them could open. In the sixth book, one of the horcruxes is almost certaintly the locket of Salazaar Slytherin, which is described as a heavy gold locket both of the times that Harry sees it. Then, at the end, when Harry looks at the locket that Dumbledore removed from the well of poison, he realizes that it is nowhere near as heavy as the one he saw in Dumbledore's pensieve. Why would JKR choose that adjective to describe the discrepancy between the fake and real lockets? So, if the locket in Number 12 Grimmauld Place is the locket of Salazaar Slytherin, and it is one of Lord Moldybutt's horcruxes, then how did it get there? Well, if you refer to the note, this is what it says:

"To The Dark Lord I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can, I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B."

First, it says to "The Dark Lord." As Harry said to Snape while he was forced to take occlumency lessons, only death eaters refer to Lord Voldemort as "The Dark Lord." Thus, the person who wrote the note has a good chance of being a death eater, or a former death eater.
Second, it says "I will be dead long befor you read this...." If we can rely on that, then the person who wrote the note is dead, for a long or for a short time - who knows?
Who do we know that was a death eater and is dead and could possible have the initials R.A.B? Regulus Black! And, if it was Regulus who found the horcrux, he could have brought it back to the The Ancient and Most Noble House of Black to destroy. If this is the case, then several things need puzzling over.

First, could Regulus have turned against Lord Voldemort and tried to work for the good of wizard kind?
Second, we know that destroying the horcrux in Slytherin's ring destroyed Dumbledore's arm. A lesser wizard would have probably been destroyed in all entirety. If Regulus did destroy or try to destroy the locket horcrux, it could have killed him. We never hear how he died, just what Sirius has assumed happened.
Third, did Regulus succeed in destroying the locket horcrux or did he not?
Fourth, if the locket was left at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, has Mundungus already filched and pawned it?

I hope I haven't bored you with my talk of HP, but I am so interested in it! But this interest is probably in response to my need to escape into a book for a while; a need that has arisen recently. I am going crazy! When I read, I get left alone for a bit, but even that gets interrupted. Even this gets interrupted! I can't say much without being unkind or just really really mean, but try this one on: I am looking forward to going shopping for an outfit for me to wear to my brother's graduation! Me, looking forward to shopping for clothes for me!