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+Horcruxes and Unhappy Dark Lord
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+
+:date: 2021-04-29T23:15:46
+:category: faith
+:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+Originally published as “`Quest for Immortality by the Unhappy
+Dark Lord`_” on Reddit.
+
+.. _`Quest for Immortality by the Unhappy Dark Lord`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/n1e9pm/quest_for_immortality_by_the_unhappy_dark_lord/
+
+I was thinking about this very unhappy adept for the Dark
+Lordship, Tom Riddle:
+
+1. Diary — while Tom Riddle was still travelling after leaving
+   Borgin and Burkes, and he considered dropping it into `Mariana
+   Trench`_ as the safest place to be. Safe it was, but the diary
+   was squashed by the weight of the water (15,750 psi, 1107.33
+   kg/cm², 10 kilometres depth), a ton on each square centimetre
+   was just too much even for the magical protections on the
+   diary.
+
+2. Hufflepuff’s Cup — while still travelling he left it in the
+   middle of Sahara desert, specifically at Reggane_; which
+   unfortunately was the place of French Nuclear tests in 1960
+   completely evaporating it.
+
+3. Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring — left in the Gaunt’s shack, which was
+   a miserable ruin with unknown owner (obviously Gaunts didn’t
+   bothered to register their ownership in the Muggle land
+   registry). So, when Muggles were building a highway pass, it
+   was silently eliminated (better to ask for forgiveness than
+   a permission). Hundred metric ton bulldozer_ was not impressed
+   by few slithering snakes and run through wards over the shack
+   without even noticing them. The ring in the box was later
+   found by a construction worker, who was immediately killed by
+   the curse. After even the emergency doctor, who was
+   investigating the incident, has been killed, the company
+   decided to cover up whole disaster, and threw the ring
+   (holding it in the protective cover) into a blast furnace,
+   which quickly overcame all Horcrux protections and it was
+   destroyed.
+
+4. Slytherin’s locket — he left it in the cave near the sea and
+   it was salvaged by Regulus Black. Kreacher was not clueless,
+   he asked for help His Mistress (a bit of elvish sophistry
+   … when she is dead, she is not member of the family any more,
+   so he could tell her whatever he needed) and found a book in
+   the Black Library, and after learning how to, he made trip to
+   Rockall_ and using Fiendfyre.
+
+5. Ravenclaw diadem — it was left in the Room of Hidden Things,
+   and later found by Winky, who was cleaning up all things left
+   in the castle by her now imprisoned young Master, Barty Crouch
+   Jr., when he was still nineteen, but excessively smart and
+   planning for DADA Mastery. While looking for some lost stuff
+   in the Room, she found excessively Dark magical object. She
+   knew that her young Master would like to preserve it, so she
+   travelled with it for him to Azkaban (wards didn’t stop the
+   elf’s apparition), but she was attacked there by Dementors. In
+   panic, she dropped the diadem, apparated away, and the horcrux
+   was immediately sucked dry by a Dementor savouring extra Dark
+   piece of soul.
+
+6. Harry’s piece of soul — Dumbledore was not idiot, even without
+   knowing what it was exactly, before Harry was deposited with
+   Dursleys, Dumbledore scraped out unknown piece of Dark Magic
+   matter in the Harry’s head, while it was still fresh and it
+   still didn’t take a root in his skull. It went out easily and
+   without support of anything living died on the pavement of
+   Privet Drive, Surrey.
+
+So, when Harry got to Hogwarts in September 1991, there were no
+Horcruxes remaining and Harry had wonderful seven years of study,
+where the most memorable events of his life were his Quidditch
+victories and his first date with `${somegirl}`.
+
+.. _`Mariana Trench`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
+
+.. _Reggane:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggane
+
+.. _bulldozer:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D11
+
+.. _Rockall:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall