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- The locket speaks to Ron, playing on his deepest fears, telling him that he’s the least loved of his mother’s children, that he will always be overshadowed by Harry, and that Hermione prefers Harry over him.
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Sep 6, 2013 · So they find the locket horcrux, and before they figure out how to destroy it, they decide to take turns wearing it. Why on Earth would they do that? We know (and they quickly figure out) what influence it can have on one's mood, and it eventually leads Ron to give up and abandon Harry and Hermione.
Apr 22, 2021 · Hermione retrieves the egg-sized Locket, which bears the initial "S" inset in small green stones on its cover. Harry determines it must be opened before it can be destroyed, but it is tightly shut. Ron detects a small heartbeat within, but Harry and Hermione are uncertain if they hear or feel anything.
- Background Information
- Albus Dumbledore Discovering The Secret
- Harry's Search For The Horcruxes
- Alternate Reality
Creation of the Horcruxes
Obsessed with immortality from a young age, Lord Voldemort created a series of Horcruxes in an effort to prevent his death. A Horcrux is a vessel into which one places a piece of one's soul to protect one from mortal death. Tom Riddle created his first Horcrux around the age of 16, and this became known as Tom Riddle's Diary. He used the death of a Muggle-born student named Myrtle Warren to create it, whom he had killed with Slytherin's Basilisk, while she was in the girls lavatory. The follo...
Quirrell as a temporary Horcrux
1. Main article: Quirinus Quirrell Quirrell was able to penetrate the first six chambers that protected the Philosopher's Stone with mild difficulty, including the chamber in which he himself put a Troll. He reached the final chamber only to find the Mirror of Erised, and was unable to figure out how to take the Stone from it, going so far as to consider smashing the mirror. Eventually, Harry alone managed to reach the last chamber, and was surprised to meet Quirrell instead of Snape. Quirrel...
Harry destroying Tom Riddle's diary
In 1993, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was under siege from an unseen terror. The Chamber of Secrets had been opened once more and the terror within unleashed upon the school's population. After several students had been petrified, Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger managed to solve the mystery. After discovering a few cryptic clues and a mysterious diary, they realised that the monster that had been petrifying the students was a Basilisk and that...
Destruction of Marvolo Gaunt's Ring
1. Main article: Marvolo Gaunt's Ring Having researched Lord Voldemort's life and heritage, Albus Dumbledore noted a ring worn by Lord Voldemort's maternal grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt. Through the many memories he had collected concerning Voldemort, he discovered that the ring passed to Morfin Gaunt. When he sought out Morfin, he retrieved a memory showing Tom Riddle's discovery of his Gaunt and Muggle heritage. Dumbledore noted that the ring was missing after Morfin's encounter with his nephe...
Background information
1. Main article: Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore's private lessons During the 1996–1997 school year, Dumbledore began to share his findings regarding Voldemort's Horcruxes with Harry Potter. Using the Pensieve, he showed Harry a series of memories about the boy who was Tom Riddle and the man who was Voldemort. During these lessons, Dumbledore taught Harry about the behaviours and psychology of Voldemort hoping to impart a thorough understanding of the man upon Harry. In January 1997, Dumble...
Slytherin's Locket
1. Main article: Skirmish at the Cave (1997) In June, Dumbledore and Harry ventured to a cave by the sea searching for a Horcrux. Dumbledore thought that this cave was a likely place to hide a Horcrux, since it was remote, hard to reach, and a scene where Tom Riddle had harmed two of his fellow orphans at the orphanage. Once inside, the defences set by Voldemort began to act against them. First, a payment of blood was expected to gain entrance to the cave.Upon entering, they were confronted w...
Skirmish at Malfoy Manor
1. Main article: Skirmish at Malfoy Manor When the locket had been destroyed Harry, Ron, and Hermione were once again lost for new leads. They spent the next few months listlessly journeying through the countryside in a vain search for more clues. It was not until around Easter that they found anything substantive. After listening to a pirate radio broadcast, Potterwatch, Harry broke the Taboo on Voldemort's name. The trio were captured by Snatchers and brought to Malfoy Manor. Their identiti...
In 2020, Lord Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange's daughter Delphini tricked Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter into going back in time and preventing the death of Cedric Diggory. Due to Cedric's humiliation during the Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament, he ended up joining the Death Eaters. While most if not all of the rest of the Horcrux hunt l...
Hermione, having the hormones of a teen girl, probably is used to the occasional mood swing, but it would still get to her eventually. Umbridge, on the other hand, likely found that the locket was a place of comfort as she may have found a kinship in those dark emotions.
Hermione remembers with a shock that there had been a locket in the cabinet in the drawing room of the house the last time she’d been there—a locket that everyone had passed around and no one could open. Unfortunately, the locket is no longer there.
Mar 15, 2014 · Why does Hermione distrust Phineas Nigellus enough that she blindfolds him whenever she summons him to his portrait? Why didn't she worry about this while at Grimmauld Place? Could Phineas have revealed their presence to anyone while they were there, and who might that be?
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The Horcrux Locket. Harry, Hermione, and Ron spend a ton of screentime preoccupied with locating the real version of the locket that Harry and Dumbledore found at the end of the last film.
