He placed the ring inside a golden box and hid it beneath the shack's rotting floorboards. He then set up many protective enchantments to deter outsiders from entering the shack and finding the ring. He also placed a powerful curse on the ring as well, one that would quickly lead to the death of the ring's wearer if not stemmed.
The ring was left there in the ruin of the Gaunt shack for many decades to come. In his entire time of possessing the ring, Riddle either never knew its powers or status as the Resurrection Stone, or simply did not have any use for it, as he feared the dead and did not wish to bring back anyone. In , Albus Dumbledore continued investigating Riddle's obsession with immortality and suspected correctly that Riddle had created up to six Horcruxes.
Dumbledore suspected that a good place to look for one of Riddle's Horcruxes would be the Gaunt shack, considering its importance to Riddle's past. Dumbledore travelled to Little Hangleton and found the remains of the shack, hidden amongst many weeds and brush.
Dumbledore succeeded in passing through the enchantments protecting the shack and discovered the golden box holding the ring beneath the shack's floorboards. He brought the sword of Godric Gryffindor with him as it now had the power to destroy Horcruxes since Harry had used it to kill the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets , which imbued the blade with the Basilisk's venom.
However, Dumbledore recognised the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on the ring's black stone and recognised it as the Resurrection Stone, something for which Dumbledore had searched for the greater part of his life. Hoping to revive his dead family members particularly his sister Ariana Dumbledore , he disregarded the ring's status as a Horcrux and put it on.
This enacted the ring's deadly curse, and it began to quickly spread through Dumbledore's body, starting with the hand on which he had put the ring.
While the act did destroy the ring as one of Riddle's Horcruxes, it did not stop the fatal curse. The curse gave Dumbledore's hand a withered black look, as though it had died.
Severus Snape managed to stop the curse in his right hand, but warned him that he had only a year to live. Dumbledore kept possession of the ring even after it stopped functioning as a Horcrux. After the Horcrux was destroyed, Dumbledore continued to wear the ring for several more days.
Most notably, he wore it when he picked up Harry Potter from Privet Drive , [6] and took him to persuade Horace Slughorn to teach at Hogwarts. Therefore, Dumbledore may have specifically worn the ring—which would indicate his success in tracking down Voldemort's past—both to help encourage Slughorn to return to Hogwarts, and to help persuade him to turn over the correct version of the memory of Slughorn talking to Riddle about Horcruxes.
Before his death at Snape's hands, Dumbledore magically sealed the cracked Resurrection Stone inside the Snitch that Harry had caught at his first ever Quidditch match by accidentally swallowing it. Dumbledore wrote, " I open at the close ", to indicate that it would only open and yield the Resurrection Stone when Harry was about to accept death at the hands of Voldemort.
Harry Potter opens the Snitch to reveal the Resurrection Stone. These spirits then comforted Harry as he walked toward his supposed death and shielded Harry from the effects of the Dementors guarding the Death Eaters' camp in the forest. After Voldemort discovered that Harry was hunting his Horcruxes, Voldemort decided to make sure that each of his Horcruxes was still safe and to increase their protection. He decided that the ring was perhaps the least safe, and thus visited the shack first.
Upon discovering that the ring had in fact disappeared, Voldemort let out a scream of fury and quickly left to check the security of his other Horcruxes. The ring was gold and set with a large, cracked, black stone , the crack appearing after Dumbledore struck the stone with Godric Gryffindor's Sword.
Morfin Gaunt wore it on his right hand's ring finger, while Tom Riddle wore it on his left hand's middle finger. The Peverell coat of arms engraved on the stone in the ring actually the Resurrection Stone is the sign of the Deathly Hallows.
To protect his Horcrux, Tom Riddle placed the ring under a very powerful curse , so much so that Albus Dumbledore himself mentioned that had it not been for his prodigious skill, he might have died in mere moments of being cursed. Even so, Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape were only able to delay the curse's effects for roughly a year. The ring as seen in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Harry Potter Wiki Explore. Learn more. When did Dumbledore destroy the Horcrux ring? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 1 month ago.
Active 2 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 56k times. In book 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in Chapter 4, when Dumbledore takes Harry to meet Slughorn, he is using Gaunt's ring to attract Slughorn: He shrugged and spread his hands wide, as though to say that age had its compensations, and Harry noticed a ring on his uninjured hand that he had never seen Dumbledore wear before: It was large, rather clumsily made of what looked like gold, and was set with a heavy black stone that had cracked down the middle.
Than later on in Chapter 10, after seeing Odgan's memory, the ring is still in Dumbledore's office: He turned away again, and was almost at the door when he saw it. Then, at the end of Chapter 13, after Dumbledore's memory with young Tom Riddle, comes this: Harry got to his feet.
So the ring is destroyed in the same night Dumbledore found it! Can someone solve the conflict?! Improve this question. Phyneas 6, 2 2 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
The answer is that there are two types of "destroying" going on here. Improve this answer. TenthJustice TenthJustice Doesn't fit. To destroy a Horcrux, the object containing it must suffer a "harm beyond magically remedy". How exactly did the living soul die if the ring haven't been touched? Beside, the destruction of a soul isn't visible, so how did Snape, and Harry, see "the ring lay on the desk cracked"? Perhaps the created crack is beyond magical remedy?
But again, How on earth can you destroy the soul while leaving the ring untouched? Did Dumbledore stubbed the air in the middle? It is harmed. It's not untouched. That's what the crack is. I really don't see what you're getting at. Show 1 more comment. Meg Meg 31 1 1 bronze badge. We have a very big emphasis on providing evidence to support our answers; could you please cite where you get this evidence from? Thanks and good luck! Drangiana Drangiana 21 1 1 bronze badge.
Dumbledore suspected that a good place to look for one of Riddle's Horcruxes would be the Gaunt shack, considering its importance to Riddle's past.
Dumbledore traveled to Little Hangleton and found the remains of the shack, hidden amongst many weeds and brush. Dumbledore succeeded in passing through the enchantments protecting the shack and discovered the golden box holding the ring beneath the shack's floorboards. He brought the sword of Godric Gryffindor with him as it now had the power to destroy Horcruxes since Harry had used it to kill the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets , which imbued the blade with the Basilisk's venom.
However, Dumbledore recognised the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on the ring's black stone and recognised it as the Resurrection Stone, something for which Dumbledore had searched for the greater part of his life. Hoping to revive his dead family members particularly his sister Ariana Dumbledore , he disregarded the ring's status as a Horcrux and put it on. This enacted the ring's deadly curse, and it began to quickly spread through Dumbledore's body, starting with the hand on which he had put the ring.
Dumbledore got the ring off and used Godric Gryffindor's Sword to crack the Resurrection Stone , believing this might stop the curse from spreading.
While the act did destroy the ring as one of Riddle's Horcruxes, it did not stop the curse that was now quickly killing Dumbledore. He took the ring and quickly returned to Hogwarts, only surviving that long because of his prodigious skill, where Severus Snape intervened and was able to stem the curse confining it to Dumbledore's hand , but only temporarily.
Snape gave Dumbledore a prognosis of about a year, and told him the curse would eventually bring upon him a very painful and humiliating death. It was then that Dumbledore asked Snape to kill him when the right time came to spare him the painful death the curse would exact upon him otherwise. After some persuasion, Snape agreed to the plan which was enacted at the climax of the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
Before his death at Snape's hands, Dumbledore magically sealed the cracked Resurrection Stone inside the very Snitch Harry had caught at his first ever Quidditch match. The snitch read " I open at the close ", and would only open and yield the Resurrection Stone to Harry when he was about to yield himself to death. During his quest for the Horcruxes , Harry riddled over the snitch, until he finally solved its mystery at the Battle of Hogwarts.
As Harry was about to be "killed" by Voldemort, he placed the snitch to his lips and whispered " I am about to die ", and it opened. Their spirits comforted Harry as he walked toward his supposed doom and shielded Harry from the effects of the Dementors guarding the Death Eaters' camp in the forest. Upon reaching Voldemort's camp in the Forbidden Forest , Harry intentionally dropped the Resurrection Stone near Aragog 's lair so as to prevent another from ever uniting the Deathly Hallows ever again.
After Voldemort's defeat at Harry's hands, Harry told Dumbledore's portrait that the stone was lost in the Forbidden Forest and that he would not go look for it, a plan that Dumbledore applauded. After having been dropped in the Forbidden Forest by Harry, the Resurrection Stone was pressed into the earth by the hoof of a centaur, and would never be found again.
After Voldemort discovered that Harry was hunting his Horcruxes due to Harry's break-in of Gringotts and theft of Helga Hufflepuff's cup , another Horcrux, Voldemort decided to make sure that each of his Horcruxes were safe and redouble their protections, now that Harry was after them. Voldemort tried to think of which one was in the most danger, and knowing that Dumbledore knew his middle name Voldemort realised the Headmaster would have made the connection between him and the Gaunts and possible trace this to the Gaunt shack where the Horcrux was hidden.
He decided that the ring was perhaps the least safe, and thus visited the shack. Upon discovering that that the ring was, in fact, gone from its hiding place, Voldemort let out a scream of fury before deciding to check whether the locket was safe in the seaside cave.
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