During Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger's attempts to find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, they decided to track down the locket first after retrieving the fake one placed by Regulus from the cave. It was stolen by Mundungus Fletcher from 12 Grimmauld Place, the home of the House of Black. It was taken from the cave, however, by a defected Death Eater named Regulus Black with the attempt of having his house-elf, Kreacher, destroy it, but the elf was unable to destroy the locket. Using the murder of a Muggle tramp, Riddle turned the locket into his third Horcrux and hid it in a seaside cave where he had hurt two children when he was in the orphanage. Riddle was interested in the locket (which was, after all, his birthright), and two days later, Hepzibah was found dead and her house-elf, Hokey, made a full confession (Riddle presumably performed a False memory spell on her, as he did with his uncle Morfin years earlier). In the mid-20th century, Smith showed it to a young Tom Riddle, who was an employee of Borgin and Burkes at the time. The locket was bought from Borgin and Burkes shop by a wealthy witch with an affinity for rare or valuable items named Hepzibah Smith. After descending down from Slytherin, it came into the possession of the Gaunt family, and Marvolo Gaunt treasured this heirloom of this pure-blood heritage along with his ring heirloom.Īfter Marvolo and his son Morfin Gaunt were sent to Azkaban, the locket was stolen by Marvolo's daughter Merope Gaunt, who sold it to Caractacus Burke for ten Galleons, a price far below what the priceless artefact was truly worth. It was a locket of heavy gold with a serpentine S in glittering green stone inlay on the front. Slytherin's Locket was a piece of jewellery originally owned by Salazar Slytherin that became an heirloom of his family. Behind both of the glass windows within blinked a living eye, dark and handsome as Tom Riddle's eyes had been before he turned them scarlet and slit-pupiled." - Description of the locket before it was destroyed The golden doors of the locket swung wide with a little click. It would have been easy to pity it, except that the cut around Harry's neck still burned. concentrating on the letter S, imagining a serpent, while the contents of the locket rattled like a trapped cockroach. Dumbledore retained possession of the ring and took to wearing it for a time after its destruction, which left the stone cracked down the middle. The black stone of the ring is the Resurrection Stone, making it the only Horcrux that is also a Hallow." He looked at the serpentine S, inlaid with glittering, green stones: It was easy to visualise it as a minuscule snake. Dumbledore managed to "destroy" the Horcrux afterward, in the sense that it no longer functioned as a Horcrux ( HBP23, DH33). Dumbledore found the ring magically concealed in the ruins of the Gaunts' house. Tom wore the ring openly for some time afterward at Hogwarts, but apparently after he turned it into a Horcrux he ceased wearing it. According to Marvolo Gaunt, the ring had been in the Gaunt family for centuries ( HBP10).Īfter Marvolo's death, the ring passed to his son Morfin, but it was stolen by Marvolo's grandson Tom Riddle on the night that Tom Riddle framed Morfin for the murders of the rest of the Riddle family ( HBP17). Marvolo Gaunt’s ring is a large finger ring, clumsily made out of what appeared to be gold, set with a black stone engraved with the symbol for the Deathly Hallows, which Gaunt took to be the Peverell coat of arms.
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