The Stones have finished helping Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and RonWeasley in their search. It is time to enjoy these last days in Hogwarts without dangers and enemies.
A Maledictus is a female individual who carries a blood curse that eventually turns her into a beast permanently. The curse is carried from birth and passed down from mother to daughter. The beast ultimately transformed into can vary based on the curse. Before their permanent transformation, they have the ability to change shape at will, which becomes gradually uncontrollable.
Nagini was a female Maledictus cursed to transform into a snake.Originating possibly in Indonesia, by 1927 she was a performer at the CircusArcanus where she met Credence Barebone and had the ability then to transform at will.
Nagini was seemingly trapped in snake form and belonged to Lord Voldemort,with whom she had a special bond largely due to becoming a Horcrux, after her master had killed Bertha Jorkins.
After Lord Voldemort's initial downfall, he used Nagini's venom as one of the ingredients for a Potion to regain strength, which eventually led to his rebirth. Later in the same year, she attacked Arthur Weasley but he managed to survive. During the Second Wizarding War, she had to be destroyed for LordVoldemort to finally be defeated.
Nagini was killed by Neville Longbottom with Godric Gryffindor's Sword and was the last Horcrux to be destroyed after Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem.
After he discovered that Harry was searching for his Horcruxes, LordVoldemort placed Nagini into a Protective Magical Cage to prevent her from being killed.
Lord Voldemort told her that it was for her good, though since he was trying to ensure his immortality, it was primarily for his. Lord Voldemort then decided that it was no longer safe to send Nagini on any more missions for him.
Shortly before the one-hour armistice during the Battle of Hogwarts, LordVoldemort used Nagini to murder Severus Snape in the Shrieking Shack by expanding the cage over and on top of him.
Nagini proceeded to sink her fangs into Severus Snape's neck, and when LordVoldemort pulled the protective cage off of Severus Snape, he fell to the ground with blood gushing from the wound in his neck.
When Harry Potter was apparently killed by Lord Voldemort, Nagini was released from the protective enchantment as he believed there to be no more threats to her life, and she was draped around Lord Voldemort's shoulders during the Death Eaters' victory march back to Hogwarts.
After Neville Longbottom had openly defied him, Lord Voldemort punished him by forcing the Sorting Hat onto his head and setting it on fire. The DeathEaters were then attacked, and during the ensuing battle, NevilleLongbottompulled out the Sword of Gryffindor from the Hat, and, after he swung the blade in one upward stroke, beheaded Nagini, whose head spun high into the air as her body slumped onto the ground, while Lord Voldemort screamed in rage.
With Nagini's death, Lord Voldemort's final Horcrux was destroyed, and thus stripping him of his immortality. He furiously tried to kill NevilleLongbottomfor it, but was stopped by Harry Potter. Lord Voldemort himself finally died when his Killing Curse rebounded onto himself once again.
Today, The Grandma has been talking with TheWatsons about MarieFredriksson, the Swedish pop singer, songwriter, pianist and painterwho was born on a day like today in 1958. She was the lead vocalist of pop rock duo Roxette,which she formed with Per Gessle.They were one of the most popular pop singers in the 90's.
The Watsons must start to create a song for Rennette Watson and read about Marie Fredriksson is always a great source of inspiration.
Gun-Marie Fredriksson (30 May 1958-9 December 2019) was a Swedishpop singer, songwriter, pianist and painter, who was best knowninternationally as the lead vocalist of pop rock duo Roxette, which sheformed in 1986 with Per Gessle.
The duo achieved international success in the late-1980s and early-1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and had multiple hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number ones.
Fredriksson had a successful career in her native country prior to forming Roxette. She was a member of punk group Strul, a band which created their own music festival in 1979. Strul's dissolution led to the creation of her next project, the short-lived MaMas Barn, after which she began releasing solo work. Her first album, Het vind, was issued in 1984, followed by Den sjunde vågen in 1986 and ...Efter stormen in 1987.
Roxette's international breakthrough coincided with a period of inactivity for Fredriksson as a solo artist, punctuated only by the release of the non-album single Sparvöga in 1989. Subsequent solo albums included Den ständiga resan (1992) and I en tid som vår (1996).
In 2002, after fainting at home, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. During her rehabilitation, she continued to record music as a solo artist, resulting in The Change in 2004 and Min bäste vän in 2006, as well as the non-album single Där du andas in 2008 -her first and only solo number one single in Sweden.
She and Gessle later
reunited to record more albums as Roxette, and the pair embarked on a
worldwide concert tour. She also continued to record as a solo artist in
her native Sweden, releasing Nu! in 2013.
Gun-Marie Fredriksson
was born on 30 May 1958 outside the small Swedish village of Össjö. She
was the youngest of five children born of Charles Gösta Fredriksson and
Inez Dagmar Fredriksson.
Marie Fredriksson
When she was four years old, her parents sold their farm and relocated to Östra Ljungby, where Gösta took a job as a postman and Inez became a factory worker. Three years later, her oldest sister Anna-Lisa was involved in a fatal traffic collision; her car was crushed by a tanker truck while she was travelling to purchase a dress for her engagement party. Marie explained: She was 20 -and I can barely remember her today. But I remember the grief, how the family was torn apart. Completely. After that I had to fend for myself. I was only seven years old.
Her interest in music continued to grow throughout her teens, as she discovered artists such as The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple. She enrolled in a music school in the Svalöv Municipality at the age of seventeen, where she befriended students from the theatre department by composing music for their amateur plays. Since no other vocalist in the school could emulate Fredriksson's vocal range, she joined the cast of a musical she co-wrote. This musical toured throughout Sweden, with its run culminating in a performance in Stockholm for Prime Minister Olof Palme.
After graduating from
music school in 1977, Fredriksson moved to Halmstad,where she worked in
theatre before becoming involved in the local indie music scene. She
formed punk group Strul in 1978 with then-boyfriend Stefan Dernbrant
-the band consisted of an extensive and fractious lineup of musicians,
the majority of whom would leave after a single performance; Per Gessle
and Mats Persson of Gyllene Tider were briefly members.
Fredriksson agreed to
embark on a solo career in late 1983, recording her debut album from
December 1983 to June 1984, with Lindbom as co-writer and producer. Ännu doftar kärlek was issued as her debut single in May 1984,
becoming a top twenty hit on Sverigetopplistan, Sweden's national record
chart.
Her debut album, Het
vind was released in September, and also peaked within the
Sverigetopplistan top twenty. The album was promoted by a three-month
double bill concert tour, featuring Fredriksson performing as a solo
artist alongside Lindbom's eponymous band. The title track was issued as
the second and final single in October, b/w a Swedish version of Cyndi
Lauper's All Through the Night, retitled Natt efter natt.
Her first solo tour took place from March to June 1985, after which she performed vocals for Spännande Ostar.
Five years later,
Roxette published their debut album, Pearls of Passion, was a major
success upon release in October 1986, peaking at number two and
eventually selling over 200,000 copies, but it failed to chart
internationally. Roxette embarked on their first tour in the summer of
1987, Rock runt riket.
Roxette released their
second studio album, Look Sharp!, on 21 October 1988. Once again, it was
an immediate commercial success in Sweden, selling over 140,000 copies
within ten days of release, but failed to chart internationally.
Marie Fredriksson
The Look was issued as the third single from Look Sharp! in Sweden, and was a top ten hit upon release in January 1989. The following month, the track unexpectedly entered the Billboard Hot 100, despite the duo not having a recording contract in the US; the local branch of EMI had previously rejected Roxette as unsuitable for the American market.
The single's parent album eventually sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Listen to Your Heart was the band's second number one on the Hot 100, while the album's final single, Dangerous, spent two weeks at number two. Fredriksson ended 1989 performing on-stage as part of The Husbands, a cover band formed by Lasse Lindbom and Niklas Strömstedt.
In 1990, Fredriksson
contributed a cover of the Evert Taube composition Så skimrande var
aldrig havet to the tribute album Taube. The same year, Touchstone
Pictures approached Gessle to compose a song for the upcoming film
Pretty Woman.
Fredriksson returned to solo work following the recording of Roxette's fourth album, Tourism.
Fredriksson and Gessle collaborated on a new Roxette album throughout 1997 and 1998; Have a Nice Day was eventually released in February 1999.
In 2001, Roxette released their seventh album, Room Service. Even though Ilbert was not present for this album's recording, Marie later said she lost all desire to continue Roxette, and would appear at the recording studio as infrequently as possible; she instructed her taxi driver to wait outside while she recorded vocals for Milk and Toast and Honey.
On 11 September 2002, Fredriksson complained of feeling unwell after jogging with her husband. Scans later indicated she had a brain tumour in the back of her head.
Där du andas was released in August 2008 as the theme song to the film Arn -The Kingdom at Road's End, and became Fredriksson's first number one single in her home country.
The duo reunited for a private performance at the Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling at Stockholm Palace on 18 June 2010. Roxette then embarked on a seven-date tour of Europe in the summer of 2010.
Roxette's tenth studio album, Good Karma, was released in June 2016, and was due to be promoted with a European tour celebrating the duo's 30th anniversary.
Fredriksson released three non-album singles after she announced her retirement from touring: Alone Again and I Want to Go in 2017, and Sing Me a Song in 2018.
Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019 at the age of 61, following a 17-year-long battle with cancer after her 2002 brain tumour diagnosis. A private funeral, with only her immediate family in attendance, took place at an undisclosed location.
Today, The Grandma has been talking with The Watsons about Nicole, the German singer who won the EurovisionSongContest representing their country in 1982 singing Ein bißchen Frieden.
Germany has officially participated in every Eurovision Song Contest since its beginning in 1956, except in 1996 when its entry did not qualify past the audio-only pre‐selection round, and consequently was not seen in the broadcast final and does not count as one of Germany's 63 appearances. The final is broadcast in Germany on ARD flagship channel, Das Erste. Germany haswon the contest twice, in 1982 and2010.
Before talking about Dima Bilan, The Grandma has offered a new CambridgeKey English Test A2 Example to The Watsons.
Nicole Seibert, (born 25 October 1964, Saarbrücken, Germany) is a German singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 with the song Ein bißchen Frieden, A Little Peace, which also reached the top of the UK Singles Chart.
Nicole represented West Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 where she performed the song Ein bißchen Frieden, with music by Ralph Siegel and lyrics by Bernd Meinunger and Paul Greedus.
The song won the contest and when she reprised the song after the end of the contest voting, she performed parts of the song in English, French, and Dutch along with the original German.
In 1983, she made the second place, behind the Hungarian band Neoton Família, at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo with the Ralph Siegel/Robert Jung song So viele Lieder sind in mir.
Nicole & Ein bißchen Frieden
Nicole was also the winner of the German Schlagerparade in 1991 with the song Ein leises Lied.
The full English version of the song A Little Peace went on to be the 500th number one single in the UK Singles Chart. Full versions in French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Slovene, Russian, Polish, and Hungarian with Neoton Família have also been recorded.
In October 2010, she released her album, 30 Jahre mit Leib und Seele,a best-of compilation album on her 30th anniversary.
In the BBC4 Programme Eurovision at 60 she described her emotions when she realised that Israel had awarded her the full 12 points for her song. She went on to say how much it meant to her, with our history, and was subsequently invited to Jerusalem to perform, in the midst of the conflict with Lebanon.
Ein bißchen Frieden is a song in German, written by prolific German Eurovision-writing duo Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger for the EurovisionSong Contest 1982, held in Harrogate, United Kingdom.
It was performed by
17-year-old German high-school student Nicole, resulting in Germany's
first win at the Eurovision Song Contest by a record margin of 61
points, setting a new record for the largest winning margin that lasted
until the Eurovision Song Contest 1997. Nicole's single is still the
only Eurovision entry to top the sales charts in every territory it was
released in.
Ein bißchen Frieden was the eighteenth and final song performed during the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest. At the close of voting, it had received 161 points, placing first in a field of 18.
The performance was unlike most other Eurovision entrants in that Nicole performed while seated on a stool, playing a white acoustic guitar and accompanied by a backing group which included a harpist. The gentle ballad describes a wish for world peace, with the lyrics sung in first person, and also describes the beauty of the natural world.
After winning the
contest, Nicole performed the reprise in four different languages:
German, English, French and Dutch. She decided on the spur of the moment
to do this, to the bewilderment of her backing group. She later
released recordings in five additional languages across Europe: Danish,
Italian, Russian, and a German-English-Dutch combination and a
German-English-Italian combination.
Nicole won Eurovision in 1982
It topped the charts in many countries, selling more than three million copies, and the English version was the last Eurovision winner to top the charts in the United Kingdom.
The English version also holds the honour of becoming the 500th British Number One.
The song was chosen in an internet poll conducted by the EuropeanBroadcasting Union in 2005 as one of the 14 most popular songs in the history of the Eurovision, and was one of the entrants in the Congratulations 50th anniversary concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, held in October 2005.
Although Nicole was not at the concert, it was re-enacted by dancers equipped with white guitars and a live orchestra as the original footage was shown in the background. Ein bißchen Frieden finished as the seventh most popular song in the history of the contest.
It was succeeded as German representative at the 1983 Contest by Hoffmann & Hoffmann with Rücksicht.
In 1982 Ein bißchen Frieden was covered in Slovene, Croatian, Danish, Hungarian, Polish, and Finnish.
In 1996, the Swedish techno/folk/bluegrass band Rednex, known for their hit Cotton-Eye Joe around that time, did a cover of Ein bißchen Frieden, also played in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The song has since been rendered in English as A Little Peace recorded by Daniel O'Donnell for his 1997 album I Believe, and in Dutch as Een Beetje Vrede recorded by Kathleen Aerts for her 2009 album In Symfonie.
Monica Forsberg wrote lyrics in Swedish as En liten fågel, and the song became popular among dansband groups. It was recorded in Swedish by Stefan Borsch on his 1982 album En liten fågel as well as releasing it as a single the same year and Mats Bergmans on his 2004 album Vänd dig inte om. It was also recorded by Ingmar Nordströms on 1982 album Saxparty 9.
German techno-punk band DAF released Ein bißchen Krieg, A Bit Of War as a response to the supposed sentimentality of the song.
Wie eine Blume am Winterbeginn Und so wie ein Feuer im eisigen Wind Wie eine Puppe, die keiner mehr mag Fühl ich mich an manchem Tag.
Just like a flower at the beginning of winter And just like a fire in an icy wind Just like a doll that nobody wants anymore That's how I feel on some days.
The Stones are spending their last days in Hogwarts. MJ has announced them that classes have been cancelled finally until September. They have decided to stay some days in Hogwarts before returning home.
Flights are restrictred and Europe is still under the consequences of the terrible virus. When borders will be opened again, they will returned to stay at home, to rest and to prepare their return to class with more energy.
The Grandma continues offering them Cambridge Exam Models because she thnks it is the best way to review and to learn how is this kind of exam and what Cambridge examinators expect about us. Today, she has offered them another example.
After this, The Stones and The Grandma have visited all hidden places of Hogwarts Castle. They want to know as things as they could about Hogwarts before leaving there.
Hogwarts is an ancient castle with centuries of history and beautiful hidden places to visit and discover.
The Battle of Hogwarts was the final conflict of the Second Wizarding War. It took place within the castle and on the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the mountainous region of Scotland.
When the Dark Wizard Lord Voldemort learned that his archenemy HarryPotter had secretly ventured into the castle to locate and destroy one of his final Horcruxes, he ordered every single Death Eater and dark creature that had ever pledged loyalty to him to launch a massive attack on the school.
Dumbledore's Army then communicated the need to fight to The Order of the Phoenix and their other allies within the British Ministry Of Magic, leading to a large-scale battle.
Lord Voldemort led his forces from the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade;while Harry Potter, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Minerva McGonagall led the defenders of Hogwarts.
Lord Voldemort also announced that he wanted Harry Potter to surrender himself by midnight.
Hogwarts Castle is a large, seven-story high building supported by magic, with a hundred and forty two staircases throughout its many towers and turrets and very deep dungeons. The castle was built in the late Early Middle Ages (c. 993) by a wizard architect and the four most celebrated wizards of the age: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and SalazarSlytherin.
The castle is the main building of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, regarded as the finest wizarding school in the world.
The Stones are visiting Hogwarts
Hogwarts is built in a valley area -surrounding mountains are part of the landscape- with the fairly large GreatLake to the south of the main building. The huge main oak front doors leading into the Entrance Hall face the west, and open up to sloping lawns. The deep ForbiddenForest extends around to the west of the castle. There are also exterior greenhouses and vegetable patches on the school grounds.
Hogwarts is located in the ScottishHighlands, near the all-wizard village of Hogsmeade and not far from Dufftown, in Banffshire, and Achintee, in Lochaber.
It was the setting of the final battle of the Second Wizarding War, the Battleof Hogwarts, which resulted in the deaths of several witches and wizards who fought in defence of the castle, including Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Fred Weasley, Colin Creevey, Lavender Brown, and Severus Snape.
The castle was badly damaged in the battle, but ultimately The Order of the Phoenix won when Harry Potter defeated his nemesis, Lord Voldemort,in the Great Hall.
Due to its extremely advanced age and the sheer amount of magic present in or around it, the castle is implied to have developed some form of sentience or awareness, such as when it sealed the Headmaster's Tower against DoloresUmbridge, and the various trick steps and false doors.
The castle is supported by magic unable to be maintained or constructed by any other means, a good example being the moving staircases, a feature contributed by one of the four Hogwarts founders, Rowena Ravenclaw.
Hogwarts is also protected by numerous ancient spells, such as the Anti-Disapparition Jinx; this can, however, be overridden by the Headmaster and Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes when necessary. It is also unplottable and has been bewitched so that, if Muggles approach the castle, all they will see is a mouldering ruin with a sign warning them to keep out and that it is unsafe. The protective magic over Hogwarts is not only strong enough to apparently resist the dispelling effects of the Taboo but also to repel even talented dark wizards.
Rubeus Hagrid claimed that Hogwarts is the safest place in there is, even more so than Gringotts Wizarding Bank, a reason why the Philosopher's Stone was sent to the castle for protection.
Arriving to Hogwarts
Hogwarts at day
The Great Hall, Hogwarts
After the Ministry finally admitted that LordVoldemort had returned, the castle's defences were further increased, much of them were cast by AlbusDumbledore himself, such as gates being locked with spells that can only be undone by teachers, and spells to prevent entrance via broomsticks.
All of the secret passageways that were previously allegedly unknown were given more protection. Additionally, with members of TheOrder of the Phoenix and Aurors placed as guards, and CaretakerArgus Filch checking all incoming and outgoing students for dangerous materials, intrusion seemed completely impossible.
However, Draco Malfoy utilised a pair of Vanishing Cabinets as a passageway, which none of the castle's defences could negate, to allow Death Eaters into the castle. This devastatingly horrified the wizarding community, as they realise that Hogwarts, the most powerful and reputably safest magical stronghold in the entire wizarding world, has been breached, much less by a student from the inside, meaning there is no longer anywhere safe from Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
As a result of all the magic that occurs on premises, both from learning students, magical artefacts therein and the enchantments cast over the building itself, a magical atmosphere pervades the entire structure, causing any technology that is not adapted to run off of it to fail. This is presumably why candles and lanterns are still in use.
Mechanical things like watches seem to do all right, as Colin Creevey's-traditional, Muggle- camera seems to have worked until it was destroyed by the Basilisk's eyes. Colin mentions that another student told him that he could develop the pictures in a potion so that they moved. One of his pictures shows Harry Potter trying to escape a picture of him and Gilderoy Lockhart.
The Chamber of Secrets was allegedly created deep under the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle during the Medieval times by Salazar Slytherin, who disagreed with the other Hogwarts Founders on the merits of blood purity.
The Chamber of Secrets was home to an ancient Basilisk, which was intended to be used to purge the school of Muggle -born students. The entrance can be found in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom on the second floor.
In order to gain entrance one must say open in Parseltongue and a sink will open into a slide. While falling down the large, dark pipe, one can see hundreds of other pipes leading off. At the end of the pipe, one is launched into a damp, stone chamber. This room is stated to be miles beneath the school and under the Lake. This is where Tom Marvolo Riddle used his ability to speak parseltongue and attack Harry Potter.
Inside Hogwarts Castle
The Hufflepuff Basement is the common room for Hufflepuff students at Hogwarts. The entrance to the Hufflepuff Basement is hidden behind a stack of barrels. It can be entered by tapping a certain rhythm on the barrels. It is located near the kitchens. The cellar is decorated with yellow hangings and filled with fat armchairs.
Underground tunnels lead off to the students' dormitories and all the doors are perfectly circular, like barrel tops. This is the only common room Harry Potter does not enter at some point during his years at Hogwarts.
The Hogwarts Entrance Hall is located on the ground floor of HogwartsSchool of Witchcraft and Wizardry,with a wide marble staircase opposite the oak doors. Double doors to the right lead into the Great Hall. The basement, the kitchens, the dungeons, and the Grand Staircase can also be accessed via the Entrance Hall. There is also an annexe off the hall where ProfessorMcGonagall speaks to the first years before the Sorting ceremony at the beginning of each school year.
The Great Hall in Hogwarts is the main gathering area in the school.Students eat their meals, receive daily owl posts, and have certain special events. The Great Hall is a large hall that can easily hold all of the school's students, staff and guests. It has tall walls that reach up to the ceiling, which is enchanted to look like the sky above.
It was the scene of Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort's final showdown, which was the Dark Lord's ultimate defeat. This was because the Elder Wand refuse to kill its true master, so Harry Potter was not killed. Since Lord Voldemort was now a mortal man, the curse rebounded on him, killing Tom MarvoloRiddle once and for all.
The Grand Staircase is a massive structure in Hogwarts Castle, mainly used to access each floor of the castle, including the dungeons. There are hundreds of Portraits covering the walls in this tower, some of which conceal secret passages to other areas within the school. The multiple staircases in the Grand Staircase lead from platform to platform and go as high as the seventh floor where they come to an end.
Albus Dumbledore & The Grandma in Hogwarts
The Hospital wing was run by Poppy Pomfrey.Students who suffer mishaps during the school year are sent or brought to the hospital wing for treatment. The hospital wing is well equipped to deal with all manner of magical and mundane injuries, from broken limbs to regrowing lost bones.
Only in the most severe cases are students sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for further treatment, such as when Katie Bell touched a cursed Opal necklace.
The Astronomy Tower is the tallest tower at Hogwarts Castle surrounded by a parapet and turret. It is where students study the stars and planets through their telescopes in Astronomy lessons with Professor Aurora Sinistra.
This is usually done at midnight where the stars are best seen. The tower is usually out-of-bounds except for classes. All the way down from the boathouse you can see the huge window of the Astronomy Tower.
Located within this tower is the Astronomy Corridor, Astronomy reading room, Astronomy classroom, Astronomy stairwell, Astronomy department and the Astronomy Room. Hogwarts' headmaster, Albus Dumbledore was killed here on this tower by his eventual successor, Severus Snape.
However, it was planned between Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape to spare Draco Malfoy being a murderer and spare the headmaster from a slow painful death. This was because Albus Dumbledore's hand was poisoned by a dangerous curse created by Tom Marvolo Riddle, to protect his Horcrux, Marvolo Gaunt's ring.
The Clock Tower does not begin at the Ground Floor level. Because it is placed on top of a hill, the Tower begins at the Third Floor level. When you enter the Tower, there is a huge space, like an Entrance Hall with flights of wooden stairs at the right and left side. The first landing is at the Fourth Floor level. It is at this landing that are the clock's gears and face.
This same corridor connects the Tower to the remaining castle. If you go up another flight of wooden stairs, you will get to another landing, this time at the Fifth Floor level. It is in this landing that are the clock's bells; some massive gold and copper bells. There is another corridor at this landing; like the other, it links the Tower to the main castle.
Today, The Stones and TheGrandma have seen how LordVoldemort's soul was destroyed by himself. With this, there are six of a total of seven horcruxes destroyed. They continued helping HarryPotter, Hermione Granger and RonWeasley in their search. There is only one more horcrux to find and destroy.
Before living this incredible experience, The Grandma has offered a new Cambridge Key English TestA2 Example to her family.
A Horcrux is a powerful
object in which a Dark wizard or witch has hidden a fragment of his or
her soul for the purpose of attaining immortality.
Creating one Horcrux
gives one the ability to anchor one's own soul to earth if the body is
destroyed; the more horcruxes one creates, the closer one is to true
immortality. Creating multiple Horcruxes is suggested to be costly to
the creator, by both diminishing their humanity and even physically
disfiguring them.
The first Horcrux was created by Herpo the Foul. The only other known creator of them was Lord Voldemort, who is possibly the only one to have successfully created more than one Horcrux.
In fact, Lord Voldemort created seven horcruxes. Slughorn mentioned that the fate of those who use Horcruxes to survive is what only few would prefer, suggesting that few others have created their own Horcrux.
The nature and concepts of Horcruxes are so terrifying, they were kept secret from most of the wizarding world, and only few ever knew what they were.
Hogwarts banned the subject of Horcruxes, and even books such as Magick Moste Evile would skim the subject at best. The only known book that explains Horcruxes in detail is Secrets of the Darkest Art. The subject being vague, nobody knew what the effects of creating more than one Horcrux would be like, as none of them, aside from Lord Voldemort, have done so.
Creation
of a Horcrux is considered the foulest act of Dark magic, as it
attempts to violate and tamper with the multiple laws of nature and
morality in its creation.
Harry Potter & Lord Voldemort
Horcruxes are objects considered to be so evil that even the texts published explicitly to cater to the practise of the most terrible kinds of magic will not speak of them. Even Magick Moste Evile skirts the topic.
It is a banned subject in HogwartsSchool of Witchcraft andWizardry, and Slughorn feared that by discussing it with Tom Riddle, he would receive negative highlights from Albus Dumbledore.
The only known book that provides specific instruction on the creation of a Horcrux is Secrets of the Darkest Art, once held in the HogwartsLibrary. Due to the book's extremely dark and dangerous nature, Albus Dumbledore hid it away in his office; he did not destroy it, however.
The specific processes involved are known to involve a spell and a very horrible act. To split one's soul, one must also commit the most supreme act of evil -murder- and then encase a portion of their fractured soul into a chosen object with an as-of-yet unrevealed spell.
The
detached soul fragment will always remain as it was when it was
divided; for instance, Tom Riddle's diary portrayed Tom Marvolo Riddle
as a teenager while the eyes inside Salazar Slytherin's locket resembled
Lord Voldemort's eyes as they were back when he still had a relatively
normal appearance.
Though
a Horcrux can be made from anything, Lord Voldemort chose to use
objects of great significance or importance. The process makes the part
of the soul remaining in the witch or wizard unstable.
If the maker's physical body is later destroyed, he or she will live on in non-corporeal form, although there are methods of regaining physical form. However, according to Horace Slughorn, few would want to live in such a form and death would be preferable.
It
is stated at one point that Lord Voldemort had already pushed his soul to
the limit in creating his seven Horcruxes. This implies a finite number
of Horcruxes any one person may create before the process becomes too
dangerous to attempt again.
Though
this limit is never explicitly stated, the number seems to set solidly
at seven intentional Horcruxes, and creating seven Horcruxes in addition
to the person's own body renders the soul unstable and liable to break
off when the person whose soul it is commits murder. Dumbledore
explicitly stated that LordVoldemort's soul had become so unstable that it
finally broke apart when Lord Voldemort tried to murder Harry for the first
time. The
creation of a Horcrux can be reversed by its creator by truly feeling
remorse, though the effects of this can apparently be painful to the
point of being fatal. However, as described below, this may be a far
preferable outcome than the alternative.
Harry Potter & Lord Voldemort
Interestingly, since Dumbledore said that there is no help possible for LordVoldemort's soul, it may be that any soul as badly damaged as LordVoldemort's could no longer be repaired through remorse as described in Secrets of the Darkest Art. Alternately, and more likely, the soul can still be repaired through the redemptive power of repentance.
Harry
told Lord Voldemort to try... be a man... try for some remorse. It's your
one chance. It's all you've got left. This seems to indicate that
though TomRiddle's soul is maimed and seriously injured, he can still
repair it by regretting all the horrible things he did; Dumbledore may
simply mean that LordVoldemort is incapable of remorse to save his own soul.
Horcruxes
can also be destroyed. If a person's body was destroyed, his or her
soul would remain intact, whereas with a Horcrux it is the opposite, as
the piece of soul depends upon its container to survive. Destruction of a
Horcrux is difficult, but not impossible, and requires that the
receptacle to be damaged completely beyond physical or magical repair.
When
a Horcrux is damaged to this point, it may appear to bleed, ink in
the case of Tom Riddle's Diary and a dark blood-like substance in the
case of Ravenclaw's Diadem, and a scream may be heard as the soul
fragment perishes. However, as a safety measure to protect one's
immortality and precious soul fragment, the creator would usually place
powerful enchantments onto the artefact to prevent damage, to the point
where the powerful house-elf magic could not succeed the feat.
It is unknown if the creator of the Horcrux will be able to sense that his soul
fragment was destroyed, although Dumbledore stated that in the
particular case of Lord Voldemort, he wouldn't feel their loss because his
soul was sliced too many times and stayed that way for too long.
All
known methods of Horcrux destruction are as deadly as the murder needed
for its creation. For example, the earliest known method is
administering basilisk venom to the Horcrux, the only cure for which is
phoenix tears, an extremely rare substance.
Other
known methods are Fiendfyre as evidenced by its destruction of RowenaRavenclaw's Diadem, which requires extreme skill to control and the
KillingCurse which seems to be capable of destroying a Horcrux if it is
animate, given that part of Lord Voldemort's soul contained in Harry Potter
was destroyed when he was struck with the Killing Curse. However, Harry
Potter was never a intentional Horcrux and so it may not work on a
proper, animate Horcrux like Nagini, probably having unforeseen side
effects.
Harry
Potter was not destroyed as a Horcrux in the Chamber of Secrets because
Fawkes' tears saved him and hence the receptacle (Harry) was not then
destroyed beyond repair.
Albus
Dumbledore, Ron Weasley, and Neville Longbottom used GodricGryffindor's Sword to destroy Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, Salazar Slytherin's Locket, and Nagini respectively. This was only achievable as the sword
is a Goblin-made artefact, which can absorb qualities that strengthen
it.
Harry Potter & Lord Voldemort
When Harry Potter slew the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, the sword was imbued with Basilisk venom and became capable of destroying Horcruxes, as Basilisk venom by itself is destructive enough a substance to destroy a Horcrux.
Harry Potter and HermioneGranger used Basilisk fangs from the Chamber of Secrets to destroy Tom Riddle's Diary and Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, respectively.
The fragments of a person's soul within a Horcrux can think for themselves and have certain magical abilities, including the ability to influence those in their vicinity. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione were carrying Salazar Slytherin's Locket around their necks, they each became moodier and more prone to fighting, especially Ron. They were also unable to summon their Patronuses while wearing the locket since the soul fragment inside was darkening their thoughts.
A person with an affinity for the Dark Arts, on the other hand, would be strengthened by the influence of a Horcrux, as Dolores Umbridge was when wearing Salazar Slytherin's Locket.
If a person is more emotionally vulnerable, it is possible for the soul inside the Horcrux to take control of him or her, as Tom Riddle's Diary did to GinnyWeasley. In fact, Lord Voldemort took advantage of this possessive power to reopen the Chamber of Secrets, using the diary as a weapon rather than a safeguard.
The final known side-effect of Horcrux creation is the inability to move on from Limbo after death. This is seen when Lord Voldemort's Killing Curse, after the destruction of all the other Horcruxes, rebounded and finally ended his life once and for all, his broken and mangled soul was forced to exist in the stunted form of a flayed and mutilated baby that Harry saw in King's Cross during his visit to Limbo, unable to return to the land of the living, unable to become a ghost, and unable to go to the land of the dead because his soul was maimed and unwhole.
It is unknown if this was a standard fate meted out for all Horcrux creators, or if it was unique to Lord Voldemort due to the number of his Horcruxes.Regardless, reconciliation cannot occur after death, as the soul's state at death remains forever, so the greatest of all consequences incurred by Horcrux creation may be the possibility of eternal limbo of the soul.
