NOTE: I have decided this would all be more manageable as
discrete caches rather than as a series, so I am starting the
archiving process.
The other caches will be findable until the end of Feb '12 to give
everyone a chance to find them.
Anyone who finds the remaining 5 caches can email me for the final
co-ords so that you can finish the series.
Some caches will be replaced with new hides without the HP
theme.
Thanks all for dropping by over the last year and a half
:)
Marvolo Gaunt's Ring is the first
Horcrux in the Harry Potter series, and is the first cache of seven
in this Harry Potter-themed series.
Inside each of the seven caches is
part of the co-ordinates for the puzzle cache (GC2ATK8). Find the
horcruxes, destroy (log) them and then defeat (log...) He Who Must
Not Be Named.
The seven horcruxes are all 200ml sistema's, with camo
paint.
A horcrux is receptacle in which a Dark wizard has hidden a part
of his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality. Tom Riddle
creates his first Horcrux using a ring owned by his maternal
grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt, during the summer after his fourth year
as a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He
casts the spell after murdering his father. The ring is introduced
during the fourth chapter of the Half-Blood Prince, having already
been destroyed by Albus Dumbledore, but its significance not yet
revealed.
In a Pensieve memory, it is revealed that Riddle had taken the gold
ring, which has a black stone inscribed with a magical symbol, from
his uncle Morfin Gaunt, whom he had framed for the murder of his
father and grandparents by altering his uncle's memories. Riddle
wears the ring while still a student at Hogwarts, but eventually
hides it in the house where the Gaunt family had lived. It remains
hidden under the floorboards, placed in a golden box, and protected
by several enchantments, until Dumbledore finds it during the
summer break between the events of Order of the Phoenix and
Half-Blood Prince. Dumbledore destroys the Horcrux with Godric
Gryffindor's sword, though he is mortally injured by the ring's
curses after putting the ring on his finger. The injury leaves his
right hand permanently disfigured and would have killed him quickly
but for the intervention of Severus Snape, who slowed the curse to
Dumbledore's right hand and arm, but the curse still progressed up
Dumbledore's right arm and would eventually kill him if it had run
its course. The damaged ring is kept for a time on a table in the
Headmaster's office.
Before his death, Dumbledore hides the ring's black stone inside a
Golden Snitch and he bequeaths the Snitch to Harry in his will.
Dumbledore had learned that the stone is, in fact, the Resurrection
Stone, one of the three Deathly Hallows. This was why he had put it
on his finger: he had hoped to activate it and apologize to his
long-dead family, quite forgetting it was also a Horcrux now, and
thus likely to be protected by destructive enchantments. Voldemort
remained unaware of the stone's additional magical properties
throughout his lifetime.