Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: the noose is tightening
Released on our screens in July 2009, Harry Potter and the halfblood Prince is the sixth part of the film saga adapted from JK Rowling’s work. Directed by David Yates, the film represents a turning point in the saga with both the tragic death of Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, and the discovery of the existence of Voldemort’s famous Horcruxes.
In fact, it is thanks to a new character introduced in this film, Professor Horace Slughorn (played by Jim Broadbent), that Harry manages to discover the dark secret of the black magician. But it wasn’t an easy task. The wizard with the glasses had to convince the professor to let him access a memory buried in his memory, which he then poured into the pensieve, so that Harry could see it. We thus discover, for the first time, how the man once called Tom Riddle managed not to die.
By killing innocent people, Tom Riddle split his soul into multiple pieces and then used a spell to imprison each part an object. She did it seven times (the magic number according to him). Due to his megalomania, he always chose an object with a high symbolic value.
Voldemort’s victims to create his Horcruxes
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The diary: Mimi Geignarde
At the age of sixteen, to maintain who he was at the time, Tom Riddle killed Mimi Whiner with the Basilisk in the girls’ bathroom. This is his first Horcrux. Once he became Lord Voldemort, entrust the object to Lucius Malfoy. The latter, not knowing its importance, then puts it among Ginny Weasley’s personal effects, who finds herself possessed by the object. Harry manages to destroy it with a Basilisk fang in the Chamber of Secrets.
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The Skinny Ring: Tom Riddle Sr.
During his sixth year at Hogwarts, Tom Riddle visits the house that belonged to his grandfather, Elvis Marvolo Gaunt. There he meets his uncle, Morfin, who tells him that his father is actually a Muggle. The man also introduces himself as a descendant of Salazar Slytherin and shows him the Gaunt ring as proof. Tom Riddle, mad with rage to learn he had done it smuggle blood in the veins, he kills his father, Tom Riddle Sr., as well as his paternal grandparents and turns the Gaunt ring into a Horcrux without knowing that it is embedded with the Resurrection Stone.
It is Albus Dumbledore who destroys this Horcrux with the sword of Gryffindor. Let’s look at the ring briefly Harry Potter and the halfblood Prince. It is this ring that sentences Dumbledore to death (he wanted to use the Resurrection Stone but did not know it was a Horcrux).
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Salazar Slytherin’s locket: a Muggle wanderer
After finishing his studies, Tom Riddle worked for a while at Barjow and Beurk as a salesman. It was there that he heard about Hepzibah Smith, a rich witch, heiress of Helga Hufflepuff who owned two valuable objects: Salazar Slytherin’s locket and Helga Hufflepuff’s cup.
He decided to poison the old woman and stole the two objects. He killed a Muggle wanderer to turn the locket into a Horcrux. He then hid it in a seaside cave, where Harry and Dumbledore discovered it years later. But it was a replica. The real one was on Dolores Umbridge’s neck.
After recovering it, it is finally Ron who manages to destroy it with the sword of Gryffindor Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
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Hufflepuff Cup: Hepzibah Smith
Along with the Slytherin medallion, Tom Riddle stole the Hufflepuff Cup from Hepzibah Smith. He killed the latter to turn him into a Horcrux. Once he became Voldemort, he entrusted the cup to the Lestranges, who hid it inside their vault at Gringotts. After infiltrating (disguised) the bank The Deathly Hallows part 2, Hermione, Ron and Harry, grabbed the cup. It was then Hermione who destroyed it with a Basilisk hook found in the Chamber of Secrets.
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Rowena Ravenclaw’s tiara: an Albanian peasant
The Gray Lady of Hogwarts, aka Helena Ravenclaw, revealed to Tom Riddle that the tiara was hidden in a “hollow tree” in a forest in Albania. After school, she took it and hid it Hogwarts Room of Requirement. He became a Horcrux after killing a farmer he met on his way. It was during the Battle of Hogwarts that the Horcrux was accidentally destroyed by Crabbe who threw a Demon and destroyed the room and the diadem (and him with it).
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Nagini: Bertha Jorkins
Bertha Jorkins was an official in the Ministry of Magic. Voldemort killed her shortly after meeting her in Albania. It was Neville Longbottom who destroyed the Horcrux by cutting off Nagini’s head during the Battle of Hogwarts with the Sword of Gryffindor. A cult scene present in the last film.
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Harry Potter: Lily Potter
Lily Potter, Harry’s mother, sacrificed herself by interposing herself between the lord of darkness and her child when Voldemort wanted to kill him in Godric’s Hollow. A piece of Voldemort’s soul then nestled, without him knowing, in the body of his enemy (hence his famous scar). It was the same dark wizard who destroyed this last Horcrux by killing Harry in the Forbidden Forest. But the latter came back to life, because, as Dumbledore explained, he had become the true master of death, because he “accepted it as inevitable and did not try to fight it”.
Source: Cine Serie
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