What Horcrux did Ron Hermione destroy?

Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley destroy the Hufflepuff's cup Horcrux inside the Chamber of Secrets—Hermione giving it the fatal blow with a basilisk fang.
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How many Horcruxes did Ron destroy?

Analysis. It is perhaps interesting that no person destroyed more than one Horcrux. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Dumbledore, Crabbe (indirectly: the diadem fell apart in Harry's hands after being damaged by Crabbe's fiendfyre), and Voldemort each destroyed one of the seven.
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Who destroyed the 7th Horcrux?

Nagini is the last Horcrux that Voldemort created and the last one to be destroyed. During the final battle of Hogwarts, Neville pulls the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, destroying the last Horcrux.
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Who destroyed Salazar Slytherin locket?

Harry attempted to retrieve the sword, but was prevented from doing so by the locket still around his neck. The sword was then used by Ron Weasley who destroyed the locket Horcrux.
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Who destroyed the second Horcrux?

The real locket was being worn by Dolores Umbridge, so Hermione switched the two lockets and gave the real Horcrux to Harry. Ron destroyed the Horcrux with the Sword of Godrick Gryffindor, which the Golden Trio found at the bottom of a lake in the Forest of Dean.
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All 7 Horcruxes Getting Destroyed



What was the hardest Horcrux to destroy?

The Locket

Of all of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, Salazar Slytherin's old locket is the most difficult to obtain and destroy. In the Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore travel to an old cave where the Dark Lord would torture victims during his time as a teenager.
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Who stole the 3rd Horcrux?

Kreacher admits that he did steal the locket after it was thrown out two years ago, but he says that it's now gone—stolen by Mundungus Fletcher. Kreacher refers to the locket as “Master Regulus's,” and Harry demands to know why, ordering Kreacher to tell them everything he knows about the locket.
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Is Umbridge A Death Eater?

Harry describes Umbridge to Sirius Black, saying that she's vile enough to be a Death Eater, despite not being one. Umbridge is also depicted to be a prejudiced person, despising half-breeds and Muggle-born witches and wizards to the point of firing Hagrid due to his half-giant birth status.
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Who murdered Rowena Ravenclaw?

Rowena became fatally ill, and hoping to see her daughter one last time, sent the Bloody Baron, a man who harbored an unrequited love for Helena, to find her. The Baron killed Helena when she refused to return with him, before killing himself out of regret for what he had done.
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Were there 7 or 8 Horcruxes?

The Dark Lord — aka Voldemort — created seven Horcruxes in an attempt to sustain immortality.
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What are the 8 Horcruxes in order?

Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes and everyone connected to them
  • Tom Riddle's diary. The diary dates back to when Voldemort was still Tom Marvolo Riddle. ...
  • Marvolo Gaunt's ring. ...
  • Helga Hufflepuff's cup. ...
  • Salazar Slytherin's locket. ...
  • Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. ...
  • Nagini. ...
  • Harry Potter - The Boy Who Lived. ...
  • Professor Quirinus Quirrell.
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Who died for all the Horcruxes?

When Jo Rowling was asked on the Bloomsbury webcast who died to make Voldemort's seven Horcruxes, she answered: The diary ” Moaning Myrtle.
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Was Professor Quirrell a Horcrux?

Quirrell is, in effect, turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort. He is greatly depleted by the physical strain of fighting the far stronger, evil soul inside him.
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How does Nagini become a Horcrux?

Nagini was Lord Voldemort's final Horcrux

In an interview, J.K. Rowling revealed that it was the murder of Bertha Jorkins that made Nagini a Horcrux. After Voldemort discovered his Horcruxes were in danger, Nagini was magically protected, described as being encased in a 'starry, translucent sphere'.
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How did Tom Riddle become Voldemort?

Riddle ultimately changed his name, by way of an anagram, from "Tom Marvolo Riddle" to "I am Lord Voldemort", as a way of removing his own heritage and of exalting himself, and he killed the Riddle family, partly because they were Muggles, and partly because they abandoned him and his mother.
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How did Harry become a Horcrux without the spell?

Harry Potter became a Horcrux when the love from his mother protected him from Lord Voldemort's curse. Instead of killing Harry the curse backfired and destroyed Voldemort's body and all his power. In the course of this battle, Voldemort accidentally gave part of his powers to baby Harry as well as a piece of his soul.
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Who is the heir of Hufflepuff?

The Heir of Hufflepuff was none other than Cedric Diggory, who was well on his way to fulfilling the prophecy of the Heir of Hufflepuff when he was tragically murdered by Peter Pettigrew. Thus, the prophecy would remain unfulfilled forever.
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Who becomes head of Slytherin after Snape?

The Head of Slytherin is Horace Slughorn (who left the role to Severus Snape for fifteen years before taking it up again in 1996) and the House's patron ghost is the Bloody Baron.
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Who is the heir of Gryffindor?

Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor (though his powers have been bound by his father when he was a baby), Neville is the Heir of Hufflepuff, Meghan (OFC, daughter of Sirius) is the Heir of Ravenclaw. Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Remus/Tonks.
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What Death Eater was not a Slytherin?

Peter Pettigrew, (a.k.a. Wormtail), is the only Death Eater known to have been in a House other than Slytherin (Gryffindor) while at Hogwarts. There, he was a close friend of Sirius Black, James Potter, and Remus Lupin, although he was the least intelligent and least talented of the group.
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What did Umbridge do to Muggle-borns?

With the fall of Lord Voldemort, Dolores Umbridge was put on trial for her enthusiastic co-operation with his regime, and convicted of the torture, imprisonment and deaths of several people (some of the innocent Muggle-borns she sentenced to Azkaban did not survive their ordeal).
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Was Slytherin's locket fake?

Recognising that this locket was not the same as what he had seen in the Pensieve, Harry realised that the "Horcrux" was a fake. Inside the locket was a note signed by "R.A.B." that confirmed that the real Horcrux had already been taken, and that the pain and effort of the ordeal in the cave had been a waste.
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Did Umbridge know the locket was a Horcrux?

So Umbridge acquires the locket as a bribe from Mundungus Fletcher, and though it once belonged to Salazar Slytherin, Merope Gaunt, and Hepzibah Smith, Umbridge is unaware that the locket is one of Lord Vodemort's Horcruxes - or that it belonged to him at all.
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Why did Regulus Black turn against Voldemort?

Like his family, Regulus was easily swayed by Lord Voldemort's "pure-blood" rhetoric. He learned too late that the Lord Voldemort's beliefs were far more evil than he had ever realized and being a Death Eater involved far more unpleasantness than he was capable of.
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