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Ok, back to my Harry Potter posts. Just can't post enough about it. Lol

In case anyone was wondering what are the Horcruxes mentioned in the movie that'll prove to be EXTREMELY crucial to destroying Voldermort, here's the explanation:


Horcruxes are objects that a wizard uses to store a part of his soul in order to achieve immortality. In order to do so, one must commit murder to split his/her soul and store it in this particular object of choice. By doing so, one cannot die, even when his/her physical self is destroyed, because part of his/her soul still lives somewhere, in the Horcrux.

In this case, we hve Voldermort's own Aveda Kedavra backfiring upon him as he casted it on Harry when he was just a baby, yet he did not die. Because he had Horcruxes! Took him a few years to come back, and now in HP6, Dumbledore confirms the case of Voldermort using Horcruxes to achieve immortality from getting the vital piece of memory from Horace Slughorn.

Voldermort, much to many people's horror, had split his soul into SEVEN parts, which is totally mental in wizarding history as it is horrific enough to commit one murder, moreover committing seven.


Here are the seven Horcruxes:

1. Marvolo Gaunt's Ring (The Resurruction Stone) - Voldermort's first Horcrux. Belonged to his maternal grandfather, Voldermort killed his father and paternal grandparents in order to split part of his soul and thus making his first Horcrux. It was worn by Tom Riddle at 16 years old as shown in the movie of HP6, however Voldermort went back to the Gaunts Shack and hid it there, casting protective enchantments around it. It was destroyed by Professor Dumbledore using the Sword of Godric Gryffindor in the interval between HP5 and HP6.
Voldermort himself never knew about the Resurruction Stone hidden inside the Ring for the rest of his life.


2. Tom Riddle's Diary - Voldermort's second Horcrux. Created with the murder of the Moaning Myrtle using the Basilisk. Voldermort left it in the care of Lucius Malfoy, and he in turn sneaked the Diary into Ginny Weasley's cauldron at the beginning of HP2, and the soul fragment inside the Diary used Ginny to reopen the Chamber Of Secrets, allowing the Basilisk to penetrate the school using pipes to terrorize Muggle-born students.
Destroyed by Harry using a Basilisk fang, it was the very first Horcrux to be eliminated. But then, no one except Dumbledore actually knew that it was a Horcrux.


3. The Cup of Helga Hufflepuff - Voldermorts's third Horcrux. Created with the murder of Hepzibah Smith. Entrusted to Bellatrix Lestrange, it was kept inside the vault of the Lestranges' in Gringotts. Having infiltrated the Bank in HP7, Harry, Ron and Hermione managed to retrieve the Cup (with much hassle) and Hermione destroyed it with a Basilisk fang back in Howarts.


4. Salazar Slytherin's Locket - Voldermort's fourth Horcrux. Created with the death of an unknown Muggle. Belonged to Voldermort's mother, but she sold it at Borgin and Burke's for a mere 10 Galleons as she didn't know its true worth. As the necklace was bought by Hepzibah Smith, Voldermort stole it along with the Cup of Helga Hufflepuff and turned it into a Horcrux. It was hidden inside the cave where Voldermort terrorized his fellow orphans when he was a kid, and the cave is heavily guarded by magical enchantments as shown in HP6 the movie.
However, the real Horcrux was replaced with a fake by R.A.B., who very surprisingly is, Regulus Arcturus Black, Sirius Black's brother, and a former Death Eater who, for reasons I don't know, turned his back on Voldermort and aimed to destroy the Horcrux, eventually leading to his own death after he was being dragged down the water by the Inferi. The Locket was left in the possession of Kreacher the house elve. The story goes and eventually, it was destroyed by Ron using the Sword of Godric Gryffindor, after much torment.


5. The Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw - Voldermort's fifth Horcrux. Created with the murder of an Albanian peasant. Belonged to one of the founders of Hogwarts, Rowena Ravenclaw, it was stolen by her daughter, Helena Ravenclaw, out of jealousy. However, she buried it in the hollow of a tree befre the Bloody Baron tracked her down and killed her out of impulse. Helena Ravenclaw later became the Grey Lady of Ravenclaw House. Tom Riddle, while still studying in Hogwarts, managed to charm the Lady into revealing the wherabouts of the Diadem, and shortly after graduating from Hogwarts he went to Albania to retrieve the Diadem, making it his fifth Horcrux. When he returned to Hogwarts several years later to apply for the job as the teacher for Defence Against The Dark Arts, he was rejected by Professor Dumbledore and then, he hid the Diadem in the Room Of Requirement as he thought no one else except him would hve known so many secrets of Hogwarts and that the magical enchantments and protections on the school itself would be sufficient to keep his Horcrux safe, thus he did not cast any spells of his own around the Horcrux to protect it.
The Diadem was destroyed by stupid Vincent Crabbe, Malfoy's sidekick, after he foolishly set the whole Room Of Requirement on fire using Fiendfyre. He died in his own cursed fire.


6. Harry Potter - Voldermort's sixth Horcrux. Well, he never meant to make Harry his Horcrux and he never knew he did. HAHAHA oh well... Anyway, the night when Voldermort tried to kill Harry when he was just an infant, the curse backfired and a fragment of his soul (after so many times of splitting his soul, it was rather unstable) detached from Voldermort himself and rested upon the only living thing left in the room - Harry. However, Harry was never actually a dark object as no spells were casted upon him with the intentions to make him a Horcrux. This explains the lighting bolt-shaped scar on Harry's forehead, his ability to speak and understand Parseltongue and the constant connections through thoughts and visions with Voldermort. However, in HP7, Voldermort once again casted the Killing Curse on Harry, which then he killed the fragment of HIS OWN SOUL inside Harry (apparently he didn't realize that) and thus, they were finally detached from one another, the connections between the two finally broken. Therefore, we can conclude that the person who destroyed the sixth Horcrux was... Voldermort himself.
It was also revealed that after the connections were broken, Harry's scar no longer hurt and he also lost the ability to speak Parseltongue.


7. Nagini the Snake - Voldermort's seventh Horcrux. Created with the murder of the Ministry's official Bertha Jorkins. In HP7, the reason why Harry and Hermione was discovered by Bathilda Bagshot even when they were under the Invisibility Cloak at Godric's Hollow was because that wasn't Bathilda at all, it was Nagini! Bathilda was already murdered then. As Nagini was a snake, she's able to sense body heat and movements that humans cannot, even under the Invisibility Cloak. Later in HP7, as Voldermort found out that Harry was after his Horcruxes, he casted a protective enchantment cage around Nagini to protect her. Nagini also killed Severus Snape. When Harry was finally 'dead' from the Killing Curse, Voldermort released Nagini from her enchanted cage, not knowing that Harry was still alive. The snake was killed by Neville Longbottom, using the Sword of Godric Gryffindor.



Thus, after the destruction of all these Horcruxes, Voldermort was finally deemed Mortal, and the final battle between him and Harry would determine his death.

He also created 7 Horcruxes (excluding himself and also he did not know that Harry was a Horcrux of his) because he believe that the number 7 holds some sort of mystical power.
Therefore, he split his soul into a total of 8 fragments, including the one inside his physical self.


The reason as to why, that night in the Forbidden Forest in HP7, Voldermort wasn't able to kill Harry (again), was because in HP4, Voldermort used Harry's blood to give him a full physical body. Because of this act, Harry's blood flows in Voldermort, keeps him alive. However, as we all know Harry's mother, Lily, sacrificed herself to safe Harry's life, Harry's blood is enchanted with some old historic magic of love. With Harry's blood flowing inside Voldermort, Voldermort had unawarely became a 'guardian' of Harry. In other words, if Voldermort is alive, Harry cannot die. Voldermort had kept the sacrifice of Lily Potter alive, much to his dismay.

I love J.K.Rowling, her linking of facts are fantastic.