July 11, 2011

This week my PASSION is...

HORCRUX

Harry Potter: "Does that mean, with the stone gone that is, that Voldemort can never come back?"

Dumbledore: "Ah, I'm afraid...there are ways in which he can return."

A Horcrux is a dark magical object used to attain

immortality. The concept is first introduced in Harry Potter 

and the Half-Blood Prince, though Horcruxes are present in 

earlier novels without being identified as such. Rowling uses 

the character of Horace Slughorn’s expository dialogue to 

reveal that the creation of a Horcrux requires one to commit 

a murder, which, as the supreme act of evil, ‘rips the soul 

apart.’ After the murder, a spell is cast to infuse part of the 

ripped soul into an object, [either living or inanimate],   

which becomes the Horcrux.

Tom Riddle's Diary
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
In the possession ofLucius Malfoy, later given to Ginny Weasley(without her knowing it), and eventually found byHarry Potter in the girls lavatory on the 2nd floor.	Moaning Myrtle	Harry Potter	Stabbed with aBasilisk fang	Chamber of Secrets	29 May,1993
Marvolo Gaunt's Ring
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
In the Gaunt Shack	Tom Riddle Sr.	Albus Dumbledore	Cut with Godric Gryffindor's Sword	Headmaster'soffice	July 1996
Salazar Slytherin's Locket
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
Horcrux cave, later moved to 12 Grimmauld Place, later stolen byMundungus Fletcher who gave it to Dolores Umbridge as a bribe	A Muggle tramp	Ron Weasley	Stabbed withGodric Gryffindor's Sword	Forest of Dean	28 December,1997
Helga Hufflepuff's Cup
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
The Lestrange family vaultat Gringotts Wizarding Bank	Hepzibah Smith	Hermione Granger	Stabbed with aBasilisk fang	Chamber of Secrets	Battle of Hogwarts,2 May,1998
Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
In the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts Castle	An Albanian peasant	Vincent Crabbe,Harry Potter(film only)	Unintentionally incinerated withFiendfyre,Stabbed with a Basiliskfang(film only)	Room of Requirement	Battle of Hogwarts, 2 May, 1998
Harry Potter  “the one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have powers the dark lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither could live while the other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…”
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
Inadvertently part of Harry's soul	"[Voldemort] had rendered his soul so unstable that it broke apart when he committed those acts of unspeakable evil, the murder of [Harry's] parents, the attempted killing of a child [Harry]."	Lord Voldemort	Destroyed with aKilling Curse	Forbidden Forest	Battle of Hogwarts, 2 May, 1998
Nagini
Hiding place	Murder	Destroyed by	Destruction method	Destruction site	Date Destroyed
Always by Lord Voldemort's side after the cup was stolen	Bertha Jorkins[10]	Neville Longbottom	Beheaded withGodric Gryffindor's Sword	Entrance Hallof Hogwarts	Battle of Hogwarts, 2 May, 1998