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
:)
Salazar Slytherin's Locket is the fourth Horcrux in the Harry
Potter series, and is the fourth 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.
Tom Riddle created his fourth Horcrux using a locket once owned
by Salazar Slytherin, which had once belonged to Riddle's mother,
Merope Gaunt. The spell was cast after Riddle murdered a Muggle
tramp. The locket is introduced briefly in Order of the Phoenix
(described only as "a heavy locket that none of them could open")
and is destroyed by Ron Weasley in the nineteenth chapter of
Deathly Hallows.
Slytherin's locket was passed down through the generations and
eventually ended up in the possession of Merope Gaunt. After being
abandoned by her husband Tom Riddle Senior, Merope sold the locket
to Caractacus Burke, shopkeeper of Borgin & Burkes, for ten
galleons, a fraction of the Locket's true value. The locket was
eventually sold to Hepzibah Smith. Riddle stole the locket, along
with Helga Hufflepuff's cup, after murdering Smith. Once the locket
became a Horcrux, Voldemort hid it in a cave where he had once
terrorized two of his fellow orphans. The cave's magical protection
included a door that could only be opened with a blood offering, an
enchanted boat, a basin of potion that causes pain and horrific
visions to the drinker, and the use of Inferi.
Disillusioned Death Eater Regulus Arcturus Black learned about the
Horcrux and its hiding place. In an effort to bring about
Voldemort's eventual downfall, he and his house elf Kreacher broke
through the magical protection and stole the locket. While Black
died in the effort, killed by the surrounding Inferi, Kreacher took
the locket back to their home at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place.
Kreacher continued to protect the locket for years. However, while
the Order of the Phoenix was using the house as its headquarters,
the locket was stolen by Mundungus Fletcher, a petty criminal and
member of the Order. He gave it to Dolores Umbridge as a bribe when
she caught him selling stolen property.
Two years later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione infiltrated the Ministry
of Magic, where Umbridge worked, and stole the locket. Ron later
saved Harry from being strangled by it when he wore it around his
neck. The fragment of soul inside assumed the shape of Harry and
Hermione and played on Ron's fear that Harry and Hermione had
started a relationship during his absence (and his longer-held fear
that in Hermione's eyes he, Ron, would never match up to Harry).
Ron managed to overcome its influence and destroyed it using the
sword of Godric Gryffindor in the Forest of Dean.
Please do not kill any muggle tramps on your
journey.