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Harry Potter: How Were All 7 Horcruxes Destroyed? Explored
Voldemort's Horcruxes were objects that contained pieces of his soul which Harry and his friends went on a mission to destroy.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince shows how seven Horcruxes of Voldemort let him return, eventually to be destroyed by Harry and his people. The mystery of Voldemort's survival in the killing curse lifted and grew to his full rebirth in Goblet of Fire. In the sixth book, Harry is tasked with finding and destroying Horcruxes-dark magical objects that conceal a wizard's soul-so that no resurgence of Voldemort would occur.
The movie adaptation of Half-Blood Prince did not include some crucial details from the books about why Voldemort wanted Horcruxes, where they came from, and how a person would make a Horcrux. The Horcruxes are the dark objects in the Wizarding World; to make a Horcrux, someone had to kill another person to tear one's soul. Harry and his friends were able to annihilate all seven Horcruxes belonging to Voldemort.
1. Tom Riddle's Diary
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it was learned that the youth diary of Voldemort was his first Horcrux, created by the death of Myrtle Warren, to split his soul. In a scene not reflected in movies, Lucius Malfoy confesses that during the First Wizarding War, Voldemort gave him the Horcrux to open the Chamber of Secrets. Assuming Voldemort was defeated, Malfoy sought to rid himself of the Horcrux and frame the Weasleys, planting the diary in Ginny's cauldron.
Harry used a basilisk fang, which had been driven into his arm, to destroy the Tom Riddle diary Horcrux in the Chamber of Secrets. He realized the diary was one that gave Riddle so much power and, upon that realization, tore it apart to destroy it. Basilisk venom is an extremely rare poison that is associated with destroying Horcruxes; the only known antidote is Phoenix tears. Although he knew that was what Voldemort had done with the use of Horcruxes, sending Harry in to bring the diary back himself, he did not say this until Half-Blood Prince.
2. Salazar Slytherin's Locket
In Harry Potter, one of Salazar Slytherin's lockets was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. It was destroyed by Ron Weasley with the Sword of Gryffindor. Very much complicated backstory with the locket does not appear very well in the Half-Blood Prince movie. Originally, it was passed down to Merope Gaunt, Voldemort's mother, and she sells it to Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley. It later gets sold to Hepzibah Smith along with Hufflepuff's cup.
Voldemort stole the locket and cup from Hepzibah Smith and, using the murder of a Muggle vagrant, created the Horcrux. He then terrorized two orphan children in a cave with the help of Kreacher, the Black family house-elf. Regulus Black discovered Voldemort's Horcrux and learned about the significance of it, using Kreacher to summon himself out of the cave. This Horcrux first appeared in Order of the Phoenix.
3. Marvolo Gaunt's Ring
The ancestor in question was Marvolo Gaunt, who shared the violent anti-Muggle views of Salazar Slytherin. While attending Hogwarts, it was there that Voldemort found that he was a relative of Salazar Slytherin and later went to the shack when he was 16. His uncle was wearing a ring that belonged to Marvolo. Morfin gave Voldemort news about his father's ancestry, which involved Muggles, so he stunned him, altered his memory, and took the ring; afterwards he killed his Muggle father and grandparents.
Following these murders, Riddle created the Horcrux ring and discussed the possibility of making more Horcruxes with Horace Slughorn. Later, he hid the ring in the ruins of the shack in the Gaunts, where it was found later by Dumbledore himself. Dumbledore was seduced by the power of the ring and fell victim to its curse. He did manage to destroy the Horcrux by using the Sword of Gryffindor because the sword had taken basilisk venom inside it, which was important in its properties for destroying the Horcrux.
4. Rowena Ravenclaw's Lost Diadem
The last Horcrux which was produced by him before the bouncing back of the killing curse was the lost diadem of Ravenclaw, which was destroyed inadvertently by the 'fiendfyre' cast by Vincent Crabbe, a friend of Draco Malfoy. It was first stolen by the jealous daughter Helena of Ravenclaw and then discovered in Albania by the Bloody Baron. Helena hid it in a hollow tree, where she was killed. While at Hogwarts, Tom Riddle had obtained the diadem and made it one of his seven Horcruxes by murdering a peasant from Albania.
Later on, upon returning for a job interview for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, Voldemort was able to hide the diadem Horcrux in the Room of Requirement. Harry saw the diadem for the first time in Half-Blood Prince and remembered it in Deathly Hallows. He faced Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle in the Room of Requirement. Crabbe tried to use fiendfyre-a spell Hermione knew would destroy a Horcrux. Being far too hard to control, though, the spell managed to burn down the room, which included the Horcrux.
5. Helga Hufflepuff's Cup
This is the Hufflepuff cup, made by one of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hermione Granger destroyed the mug as one of Voldemort's Horcruxes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. The mug was passed down the line into the hands of Hepzibah Smith, a client of Borgin and Burkes. It was here that Voldemort had planned to murder Hepzibah, framing Hokey the house-elf, and steal the mug along with Salazar Slytherin's locket. He used the murder of Hepzibah to create the Horcrux, and at what point he left it in the keeping of Bellatrix Lestrange is not known.
Because Bellatrix did not know the significance of the cup, she merely kept it locked up in her vault at Gringotts. Harry felt that this Horcrux was hidden, basing from the behavior of Bellatrix when the trio was questioned at Malfoy Manor. Due to the fact that the Sword of Gryffindor had been lost to Griphook in Deathly Hallows, the trio were forced to use Ron and Hermione, using basilisk fangs from the Chamber of Secrets, to destroy the Horcrux during the Battle of Hogwarts.
6. Nagini
Nagini was one of the Horcruxes created by Voldemort during his actions in Goblet of Fire. Later, Neville managed to behead her using the Sword of Gryffindor. Nagini's construction as a snake was a result of a blood curse, as shown in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. It would appear that the meeting between Voldemort and Nagini occurred while he was in Albania, where she had helped him recover with some type of potion.
In the Deathly Hallows, Nagini is one of the Horcruxes Harry knows about. She, like all the Horcruxes, was to be killed by Harry; however, due to her proximity with Voldemort, Harry could not kill her himself before his sacrifice. He entrusts this task to Neville Longbottom, who manages to pull the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat at one deciding moment in the Battle of Hogwarts, thus successfully decapitating her.
7. Harry Potter
Harry Potter became the last Horcrux created by Voldemort, and it was he himself who destroyed it. The memories of Snape revealed that Harry was turned into a Horcrux on the night the killing curse had rebounded; the prophecy then said that neither can live while the other survives. The fragmented soul of Voldemort had made five Horcruxes, and when the curse rebounded, part of his soul attached itself to Harry, who gave him the ability to speak Parseltongue and view the thoughts of Voldemort.
Harry deliberately appeared in the Forbidden Forest in Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and gave himself to the mercy of Voldemort's killing curse; Harry did not raise his wand to defend himself as another curse was placed by him. It killed the Horcrux inside him but did not kill Harry. Harry had been considered the most vital Horcrux because he possessed a part of Voldemort's soul. Harry's blood was used in Voldemort's resurrection, which helped in enhancing the protective charm his mother Lily Potter had cast upon him.
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