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
:)
Rowena Raven's Diadem is the fifth Horcrux in the Harry
Potter series, and is the sixth 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.
Lord Voldemort created his fifth Horcrux using Hogwarts co-founder
Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem. The spell needed to create the Horcrux
was cast after Voldemort murdered an Albanian peasant. The diadem
is introduced by name in Deathly Hallows, but actually first
appeared in The Half-Blood Prince, described as "a tarnished tiara"
in the Room of Requirement. Ravenclaw's daughter Helena, also known
as The Grey Lady of Ravenclaw, stole the diadem from her mother in
an attempt to become more intelligent than her. She fled to Albania
where she hid the diadem in the hollow of a tree when the Bloody
Baron attempted to search for her. After Helena was murdered by the
Bloody Baron, she became the Ravenclaw house ghost and Tom Riddle,
while a student at the school, charmed the Lady into telling him
the location of the diadem. Shortly after leaving Hogwarts and
after the subsequent murder of Hepzibah Smith where Riddle stole
Slytherin's Locket and Hufflepuff's cup from her, he travelled to
Albania and took possession of the artifact while planning his rise
to power. Years later, when Voldemort returned to Hogwarts and
reapplied for the Defence Against the Dark Arts position and was
denied the job by Albus Dumbledore, he hid the diadem (now a
Horcrux) in the Room of Requirement. Because Voldemort believed
himself the only one to have discovered the Room, he never placed
curses around the diadem.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry first comes into
contact with the diadem when he hastily hides Severus Snape's old
potions book in the Room of Requirement, right after he used an
invented spell from the book on Draco Malfoy called "Sectumsempra".
The diadem was only mentioned as an "old discoloured tiara" in the
sixth book where Harry attempted to plan to try to later remember
exactly where he placed the book. Later, after having the diadem
described to him by the Ravenclaw ghost, Harry recalls this scene
and hurries to retrieve it from the Room.
The diadem was unintentionally destroyed by a Fiendfyre spell cast
by Vincent Crabbe as he, Gregory Goyle, and Draco Malfoy attacked
Harry, Ron, and Hermione within the Room. Crabbe died in the
resulting fire.