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On Christmas day, Harry and Ron awaken to presents, though Harry’s are fewer. Harry receives candy and a knitted sweater from Ron’s mother. He also receives an invisibility cloak accompanied only by an anonymous note telling him that the cloak once belonged to Harry’s father.
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- Born of magic and misery. Voldemort is no more sympathetic for the circumstances of his birth and troubled childhood, but boy was that childhood ever troubled — starting with his very conception.
- Schooled in Slytherin. Upon his arrival at Hogwarts in 1938, Tom Riddle was immediately sorted into Slytherin House — not surprising, since he's a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, the house's founder.
- The Riddle murders. As dedicated "Harry Potter" readers know, a Horcrux is a magical item in which a wizard places a piece of their soul, thereby protecting them from death.
- Riddle's post-graduate studies. Two notable things occurred prior to Riddle's graduation from Hogwarts in 1945. The first was a secret conversation with Horace Slughorn, head of Slytherin House, about what might happen to a wizard who dared to create more than one Horcrux.
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By late 1997, Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were searching for the Horcruxes of Lord Voldemort in an attempt to defeat him once and for all. They had obtained Salazar Slytherin's Locket in September by infiltrating the Ministry of Magic, but the negative energy within the locket caused Ron to part company with his friends when they had difficulty deciding what their next move should be. Hermione remained with Harry. Eventually, Hermione brought up the fact that...
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Hermione took them to the Forest of Dean, while Harry was overcome with pain and visions of Voldemort's attack on his parents and himself in 1981. She used a Severing Charm to remove the locket from Harry and began to heal the snake bite with Dittany. Harry's wand was also revealed to be broken beyond repair, probably as a result of Hermione's ricocheting Blasting Curse. He would share the use of Hermione's wand until Ron returned to them with spare wands taken from Snatchers. Soon after, Her...
When Harry and Hermione are on the first floor of Bathilda's house, Nagini (inside the corpse of Bathilda) tells Harry to 'Come!' from the next room in Parseltongue. In reaction, Hermione jumps and...When Nagini bit Arthur Weasley in late 1995, he had to be taken to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where the healers had a difficult time keeping the wound closed, because th...In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry and Hermione arrive as themselves, since Harry didn't want to return as someone else, as opposed to the book where they are disguised as a Mug...Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1(video game)The attack on Arthur Weasley occurred a couple of days before the Christmas holidays in 1995, while he was on duty guarding the prophecy regarding Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter. He was bitten by Lord Voldemort's snake, Nagini.[1]
Harry and Hermione, in disguise as an elderly Muggle couple, encounter who they think is Bathilda Bagshot in Godric’s Hollow on Christmas Eve. They follow her to her house, where she is revealed to be Nagini.
Dec 15, 2020 · While Arthur recovered, Harry spent a lot of time back at Grimmauld Place hiding away because he was worried he was possessed by Voldemort. Hermione eventually coaxed him out and Ginny was able to convince him he wasn’t, despite his vision of Nagini coming to him from the snake’s point of view.
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Dec 25, 2023 · Harry, Ron and Hermione start searching the library for facts on Flamel, the school empties for Christmas, Ron teaches Harry wizard chess, Harry gets his father’s invisibility cloak for Christmas, tries it out at night and finds the Mirror of Erised, sees his family and is cautioned by Dumbledore.
