HORCRUX, THE FOSTERS & THE DIARY OF TOM M. RIDDLE

Today, The Fosters and The Grandma have joined to Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in their search of Horcruxes. If they find and destroy them, they will destroy evil and Hogwarts and the rest of the magic world will be able to return to normality.

The first Horcrux, T. M. Riddle's Diary, was destroyed by Harry Potter and he has explained the family how he could do it.

Before starting this incredible adventure, The Fosters & The Grandma have been talking about some interesting stories from the past, and they have been connecting words and ideas.

 

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T. M. Riddle's Diary was a simple blank diary, which Tom Riddle transformed into a Horcrux.

The diary was made into a Horcrux Riddle's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was the first Horcrux he ever made and was used as a weapon.

Before Lord Voldemort's first defeat, the diary was passed to Death Eater Lucius Malfoy. In secret, Malfoy kept the diary before he slipped it, unnoticed, into Ginny Weasley's cauldron of school supplies at Flourish and Blotts.

The diary used its dark magical influence to bewitch and force Ginny to re-open the Chamber of Secrets, but it was destroyed by Harry Potter with a Basilisk's Fang.

This diary was originally purchased by Riddle in a Muggle shop called Winstanley's Bookstore & Stationers on Vauxhall Road in London.

When Tom Marvolo Riddle was in his fifth year at Hogwarts, he achieved his goal of locating Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets and used his ability to speak Parseltongue to open it. He further used this language ability to order the Chamber's Basilisk to terrorise the school and hunt down the Muggle-born students.

Eventually one of the Muggle-borns, a Ravenclaw girl named Myrtle Warren, was killed. Riddle would later use this murder to infuse the journal with a piece of his soul, and transformed it into his first Horcrux.

After Myrtle's death, Albus Dumbledore, then Professor of Transfiguration, began suspecting Riddle. Knowing it was no longer safe to open the Chamber, and that the school might be shut down if the perpetrator was not caught, Riddle framed Rubeus Hagrid and his pet Acromantula Aragog for the crimes, and earned himself an award for Special Services to the school. He imbued the diary with other powers, so that the Chamber could be opened again in the future.

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In the following years, Riddle also questioned Potions Master, Horace Slughorn about the properties of a Horcrux and how one might create multiple ones. Influenced by Riddle's charisma and believing his own wisdom was being admired, Slughorn told Riddle what little he knew on the subject.

Based from Slughorn's information, Riddle became positive on the possibility of creating more than one Horcrux, and became confident of using the diary as a weapon instead of the intended safeguard.

Harry Potter discovered and opened the Chamber of Secrets. He, Ron Weasley, and Professor Gilderoy Lockhart made their way into the Chamber. Lockhart, who had no plans to actually fight the Basilisk, attacked the students with Ron's own broken wand, which backfired on him, and wiped his memory.

Harry Potter continued into the Chamber, where he discovered an unconscious Ginny Weasley next to Tom Riddle, who was gaining strength and form. Concealing his true nature as a Horcrux, Riddle claimed to be a memory of his younger self, and revealed the truth of his identity and plans to Harry and unleashed the Basilisk.

Harry Potter slayed the Basilisk with the assistance of Albus Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes and Godric Gryffindor's Sword which appeared from the Sorting Hat. Harry then took one of the Basilisk's fangs and stabbed the diary with it. This successfully destroyed the Horcrux, as basilisk venom was one of the few substances with that ability.

When he later explained about the diary's true nature to Albus Dumbledore, the latter was privately concerned, as no mere memory could just possess a girl and eventually take physical form, and he suspected the diary was a Horcrux.

Because of how careless this Horcrux was treated after all, its purpose was to keep its owner immortal, Dumbledore theorised that Riddle had created more Horcruxes, something that had never been done before.

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Lord Voldemort was unaware that this Horcrux had been destroyed, until he forced the truth out of Lucius Malfoy, who did not know the diary was a Horcrux, shortly after his return to power, due to the portion of the soul being separated from his body for such a long time.

Despite the known risks of using the diary as a weapon instead of a safeguard, Lord Voldemort was nevertheless furious to learn of its destruction, due to Lucius implementing the plan without Lord Voldemort's say-so in order to dispose of the diary for his own benefit while also attempting to destroy the Weasley family and Albus Dumbledore's reputation, as well as getting rid of an incriminating Dark Arts artefact, the Ministry was conducting a search at the time; this was one of the many reasons that he lost trust in the Malfoy family and why Lucius was punished and demoted.

Although Lord Voldemort was unaware of the diary's destruction until Malfoy reported it to him, he attributed this to his non-corporeal status at the time of its loss; as a result, he took no additional precautions to safeguard the remaining Horcruxes, and assumed that they were safe and undamaged until the break-in to Gringotts confirmed to him that someone else was hunting them.

As a Horcrux, the diary allowed a writer to communicate with the memory of the sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle, merely through writing on the journal's blank pages. The diary could transport the reader into a realm of memories, much like the Pensieve.

The diary was also able to siphon the life force from a reader and transfer it to Riddle's stored memory. This act was an endeavour to create a physical body for the sixteen-year-old Soul of Tom Riddle. The closer a writer became to the memory of Tom Riddle emotionally, the more power the diary would acquire over him or her.

As this diary contained Riddle's soul, it also housed his magical powers, including his ability to speak Parseltongue, even by possessing the writer to speak it, which was instrumental in reopening the Chamber of Secrets.

It was unclear whether other Horcruxes include any of these same abilities; however, Salazar Slytherin's Locket had a negative physical and emotional effect on those who wore it, and Cadmus Peverell's Ring fatally cursed Albus Dumbledore.

Also, it was unknown if Riddle had placed powerful enchantments to protect the diary from being destroyed by conventional means, as he did with all of his other Horcruxes, but it was highly likely that this was indeed the case.

Ginny Weasley tried to flush it down the toilet, but it came back perfect as new. When Harry Potter's ink bottles shattered and drenched all of his other textbooks, the diary alone remained dry and unmarked.

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 The diary was proof that

he was the Heir of Slytherin;

I am sure that Voldemort considered it

of stupendous importance.

The diary's importance to Lord Voldemort