Horcrux #2 - Tom Riddle's Diary Traditional Cache
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Horcrux #2 - Tom Riddle's Diary
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I am a very big Harry Potter fan and have been inspired to create a series of caches dedicated to the great series of books by J.K Rowling and the Warner Brother’s films.
In preparation for the last movie to be released, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2, I have hidden 7 caches, dedicating them as horcruxes.
A horcrux is a very powerful object (from the books) in which a dark wizard or witch has hidden a fragment of his or her soul for the purpose of attaining immortality. Creating a single horcrux allows one to gain the ability to resurrect themselves if their body is destroyed, however creating multiple horcruxes allows them to gain near immortality. When a wizard/witch makes a Horcrux, the mutilation of his soul causes him to become less human. The more Horcruxes he or she creates, the less human he or she becomes. Now I am no evil witch, but I did hide 7
geocaches in several areas that mean something personal to me.
This cache is located near the Bethlehem Lutheran Church off the Little River Turnpike in Fairfax. My dad is the head pastor of this church and graciously welcomes anyone to stop in for a chat.
It is such a privilege to have an outstanding and caring dad and I dedicate this cache to him and to all his accomplishments. This cache is important to me as it is a welcome place that makes my dad happy and in return, makes me happy.
History of Tom Riddle's Diary:
Tom Riddle used his diary to create his second Horcrux during his sixth year at Hogwarts. He
cast the spell after murdering his fellow classmate Moaning Myrtle using the Basilisk. The diary
is introduced in the second chapter of the Chamber of Secrets and is destroyed by Harry Potter
during the climax of the same book.
Before Voldemort's downfall, he entrusted the Horcrux to Lucius Malfoy. While aware of its
corrupting magical properties, Malfoy did not know the diary was a Horcrux. In an attempt to
discredit Arthur Weasley, Malfoy hid the diary in Ginny Weasley's cauldron, amidst her other
books. Tom Riddle's soul-fragment possessed Ginny and, through her, reopened the Chamber
of Secrets, finally starting to draw her life from her. At the end of book two, Harry saved Ginny
and destroyed the diary by stabbing it with the venomous fang of a Basilisk, making it the first
Horcrux to be destroyed. His reports of the diary's behaviour to Dumbledore were the latter's first
inkling that Voldemort might have created not just one Horcrux, but several: "What intrigued
and alarmed me most was that the diary had been intended as a weapon as much as a safeguard",
implying that Voldemort must have had backups of some sort.
To Rowling, a diary is a very scary object, having said in an interview: "The temptation
particularly for a young girl, is to pour out her heart to a diary". Rowling's little sister Diane was
prone to this, and her great fear was that someone would read her diary. This gave Rowling the
idea to have a diary that is, in itself, against the confider. When asked what would have happened
if Ginny had died and Riddle had managed to escape, Rowling declined to give a straight answer,
but revealed that "it would have strengthened the present-day Voldemort considerably".
HARDCORE PROPS TO CHYRONJAY for being the FTF WIZARD/WITCH!
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