The Demise of Tom Riddle Trivia Quiz

Lily Potter's protective spell that was cast on Harry was so powerful that the Killing Curse bounced off the infant and destroyed Voldemort's physical body, which had already been rendered unstable from years of creating Horcruxes. And, the destruction of his physical body meant that Voldemort's soul was in a sort of limbo, a spirit that really could only live as a parasite within animals and humans.

Professor Quirrell had apparently travelled on his own accord to Albania in hopes of finding Voldemort and learning some of the Dark Lord's secrets. He agreed to try and break into Gringotts Wizarding Bank to steal the Sorcerer's Stone for Voldemort, but was not successful. Afterwards, he became a willing host, allowing Voldemort to possess his mind and body. That is why he wore a turban - to hide the fact that Voldemort was actually attached to the back of his head.

Lily's protective spell still lingered on Harry's skin, so that when he touched the possessed Quirrell it caused him terrible pain. Not only that, his body began to burn up, so Harry found he was able to destroy the host body of Quirrell just by touching his skin! The burning had no affect on Voldemort, whose use of Horcruxes protected him, however, he was again a spirit without a body to inhabit. He would need to come up with another plan.

One can only imagine that Tom Riddle read about Nicolas Flamel and the Sorcerer's Stone's Elixir of Life while he was a student at Hogwarts; Hermione learned about it from reading a book in the library. Flamel and his wife had lived for over 600 years using the Elixir, and certainly it would be able to restore Voldemort's body and magical powers, as well as grant him immortality.

After learning that the stone was being targeted for theft, Flamel turned to his trusted friend, Albus Dumbledore, for help with hiding it. Talk about timing! Hagrid took the stone from the vault at Gringotts on the very day that Professor Quirrell tried to steal it. The two friends decided that the stone would be safer at Hogwarts.

There it was enchanted in the Mirror of Erised by Dumbeldore so that only a person who wanted to find it - not use it - could retrieve it. The stone materialized in Harry's pocket because he just wanted to keep it safe. His mother's spell still protected him, and his touch proved to be fatal to Professor Quirrell. Voldemort was once again left without a physical body to inhabit.

And Dumbledore and Flamel agreed that it was time to destroy the stone so that it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. He and his wife would finally die when they ran out of its Elixir of Life.

Tom Riddle's diary was supposed to be kept safe by Lucius Malfoy; in "Chamber of Secrets", however, he passed it on to Ginny Weasley while the families were school shopping in Diagon Alley. Although Malfoy's reason for doing so was not really made clear in the movie, he probably just wanted to stir up some trouble for the Weasley household. Maybe he thought Voldemort was dead and was concerned about having possession of an artifact that was connected with so much dark magic? No, he wanted to cause problems for the Weasleys.

Apparently Ginny began to write her deepest thoughts in the diary, and, as Tom began to write back to her, she confided in him more and more. This allowed him to take possession of her soul, become stronger, and make her reopen the Chamber of Secrets. The release of the Basilisk, which Tom had done while he was a student at Hogwarts, was aimed at ridding the school of students who were not pure blooded wizards.

Using the clues that Hermione had gathered before she was petrified, and hearing that Ginny was missing, Harry and Ron decided that Moaning Myrtle's bathroom was the place to begin their search. The pipes ultimately took Harry to where Ginny lay close to death as her life force was being drained. There he met Tom Riddle, who told him about all of the ways he had manipulated Ginny into doing his bidding and revealed that he was in fact, Lord Voldemort, and very close to coming back to life.

Riddle released the Basilisk, but Harry was saved by Fawkes, who blinded the creature. He pulled the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat that Fawkes had delivered, and used it to kill the Basilisk. But Tom Riddle still had to be defeated. Out of desperation, Harry seized one of the creature's fangs, and struck the diary with it. Tom Riddle's second attempt to gain a physical body was foiled, the diary was destroyed, and Ginny returned to normal. And - the knowledge that Basilisk venom destroyed Horcruxes would serve Harry, Ron, and Hermione well as the Second Wizarding War began.

At the beginning of "Half-Blood Prince", it was quite noticeable that Dumbledore had a serious injury on his hand. It was implied that a ring had something to do with it, as he kept the ring in a drawer with Tom Riddle's destroyed diary. He eventually told Harry that the ring was also a Horcrux, which he had destroyed.

The Gaunt ring had been an heirloom belonging to Tom Riddle's mother's family. Even though the family became poor, the ring remained their most prized possession, symbolizing that they were pure bloods descended from Salazar Slytherin himself. After Tom Riddle murdered his family, he stole the ring from Morfin Gaunt, his uncle, and made it appear as though Morfin had killed them. Tom wore the ring for a time, and eventually made it into a Horcrux. Dumbledore eventually found it in the ruins of the Gaunt family shack.

Unknown to the Gaunt family or Tom Riddle, the stone set into the gold ring was the Resurrection Stone of the Peverell family myth. Dumbledore recognized it, and couldn't resist the opportunity to make contact with his deceased family members by trying the ring on, which triggered Voldemort's terrible curse. Snape managed to momentarily contain the curse, but told Dumbledore that he probably had about a year to live. This conversation was revealed in "Deathly Hallows 2".

Dumbledore destroyed the ring with the Gryffindor Sword, but put the Resurrection Stone in the first Golden Snitch that Harry had captured in Quidditch so that it could be used later.

Dumbledore and Harry found what they thought was the third Horcrux on their last adventure together. After opening the locket, however, Harry found a note inside from a mysterious person, R.A.B., who said that he had switched the real Horcrux with a decoy locket. At the end of "Half-Blood Prince" Harry announced his intention to forego the next year of school in order to search for the remaining Horcruxes. Ron and Hermione agreed to join him.

While staying at 12 Grimald Place, the trio discovered that R.A.B. might be Regulus Black, Sirius' brother. He was a Slytherin who had eventually joined the Deatheaters. Apparently, however, he had second thoughts about Voldemort's cruelty, and had the opportunity to switch the real locket for a fake. The Black house-elf, Kreacher, told Harry, Ron, and Hermione, that the real locket had subsequently been stolen from the house by Mundungus Fletcher, a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Kreacher was able to track him down, and he confessed that he had to give the locket to Dolores Umbridge as a bribe when she caught him selling stolen goods in Diagon Alley without a permit.

An elaborate scheme was hatched to take the real locket from Umbridge, which was successful; destroying it, however, was way more difficult. Ultimately, Ron destroyed the locket using the Sword of Gryffindor (which, remember was imbued with Basilisk venom when Harry killed the creature), after enduring Voldemort's quite ugly dark magical spell of protection.

In "Deathly Hallows 1", Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to visit Luna's father, Xenophilius Lovegood, in order to try and gain information about the Deathly Hallows. He had been wearing the symbol on a chain when Harry first met him at Bill and Fleur's wedding. What the trio did not know was that Voldemort was holding Luna hostage due to her father's pro-Harry writings. The frightened father called forth Voldemort's minions who captured Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and took them to Malfoy Manor.

At the time the trio was in possession of the Gryffindor Sword, which noticeably distressed Bellatrix Lestrange because she thought it was safely hidden away in her vault at Gringotts. Harry, sensing her panic and thinking that her vault might hold a Horcrux, made a deal with the goblin Griphook, who was also being held prisoner. He revealed that the sword in Bellatrix's vault was, in fact, a clever fake. He agreed to help them break into Gringotts if he received the real sword as payment.

After entering the vault, Harry was able to feel the Horcrux's presence because, still unknown to him at the time, he was one himself. Bellatrix had placed an enchantment on the vault which caused anything touched by an intruder to multiply. This, of course, set off an alarm within the bank, and made escape difficult. In addition, the trio possessed nothing that would destroy the cup. When they finally reached Hogwarts after their daring escape from the bank, Hermione destroyed it using a Basilisk fang.

So, after a successful retrieval, the friends escaped from Gringotts, making their way to Hogwarts on the back of a dragon in "Deathly Hallows 2". When they dropped into the Black Lake, Harry had a mental connection with Lord Voldemort which caused him to believe that there was a Horcrux hidden in the castle.

While his friends were all excited about Harry's return to Hogwarts, they were a bit baffled when he asked them for suggestions about a hidden artifact, especially because he didn't know what it would be. Luna suggested that it might be the Ravenclaw diadem, and convinced Harry to talk to the Grey Lady, the ghost of Helena Ravenclaw, to see if she could help guide him to where it might be located. Although reluctant at first, Helena told him that it was hidden in "the place where everything is hidden", and he immediately knew that it was in the Room of Requirement.

While in the book the diadem was destroyed in the Fiendfyre made by Vincent Crabbe, in the movie Harry used a Basilisk fang, and, to complete the task, Ron kicked it back into the Fiendfyre blaze in the Room of Requirement.

Harry may well have suspected that he had a deeper connection with Voldemort than anyone knew or would say. This was not confirmed, however, until "Deathly Hallows 2", when Harry saw Snape's memories in the Pensieve. Professor Dumbledore spelled it out - on the same night that James and Lily Potter were murdered, Harry became a Horcrux that Voldemort did not intend to create.

Consequently, it became very clear that Harry had to let Voldemort kill him so that the Horcrux could be destroyed. What Voldemort did not know, however, was that because he had used some of Harry's blood to resurrect his body in "Goblet of Fire", he could not actually kill Harry. The only thing he could do was destroy the accidental Horcrux within Harry that he didn't know about anyway. Harry ended up in a state of limbo, which he thought resembled King's Cross Station. There he saw a bit of Tom Riddle's damaged soul and spoke with the spirit of Professor Dumbledore. Harry was told that he could join the spirit world or return to the mortal world.

Harry chose to return to the mortal world and finish the fight.

Nagini was the last remaining Horcrux and proved to be very difficult to destroy. During the Battle of Hogwarts she was kept close to Voldemort and had magical protection. Could anyone get close enough to kill her with a Basilisk fang? No! What else could be available to finish the task?

While Neville was limping through the rubble of the castle, he came across the Sorting Hat, and pulled out the Sword of Gryffindor! But he was knocked unconscious by one of Lord Voldemort's spells. Luckily, he woke up in the time save Ron and Hermione, who were being attacked by the serpent! One swipe of the sword, and Nagini was gone. Tom Riddle was no longer immortal.

Now it was just between him and Harry!

The situation with Voldemort's wands was a bit of a tangled mess. His original wand would not harm Harry because of their twin core connection. Both wands were made with Fawkes' tail feathers. Voldemort knew that his wand wasn't working correctly, so he borrowed Lucius Malfoy's wand. It didn't work either.

So, Voldemort stole the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb. It didn't work well for him either, however, and he didn't understand the reason why. He wasn't the wand's true master. Voldemort mistakenly thought that Snape was the master of the Elder Wand because he killed Dumbledore, but after murdering Snape, the wand still didn't work well for him. As it turned out, Draco Malfoy was the master of the wand because he had disarmed Dumbledore on the night he was killed. When Harry disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor, the wand transferred its loyalty to him.

At the final battle, Voldemort used the "Avada Kedavra" curse on Harry, while at the same time Harry used "Expelliarmus", the Disarming Charm. The Elder Wand refused to kill its master, and the curse rebounded. With all his Horcruxes destroyed, Voldemort finally died a mortal man, crumbling into ash. And the Elder Wand? Harry destroyed the Elder Wand so that it could never be used for evil and dark magic again.