However, Dumbledore managed to use his own prodigious skill to contain the curse from spreading any further, which prevented him from dying immediately. Almost immediately, the curse triggered, and nearly killed Dumbledore. Wanting to use it to revive his family and apologise for his selfishness in the past, Dumbledore lost his common sense, forget that it was a Horcrux which may have been cursed, and adorned it on his right hand. In the Summer of 1996, when Dumbledore found the ring under the rotting floorboards of the Gaunt shack, he saw it immediately as the Hallow that he had desired for so many years, the Resurrection Stone. Sorely tempted." - Dumbledore explaining why he would adorn the obviously cursed ring Snape: " Why, why did you put on that ring? It carries a curse, surely you realised that. The lack of hesitancy of placing the curse onto the Resurrection Stone was a sign of Voldemort's lack of knowledge or care for its powers and status as one of the three Deathly Hallows even if he had known, the Stone's powers were useless to him as he had no loved ones to bring back. He then placed the curse on the ring as one of the many precautions before he hid it in its place of origin. Once he learned about the effects and possibility of creating multiple Horcruxes, Riddle no longer desired to wear the ring, and instead turned it into a Horcrux with his father's murder. Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, which carried the curse Placing the Curse Īfter he had acquired his maternal grandfather's prized heirloom ring from his deranged uncle, Tom Riddle wore it openly during his time at Hogwarts after killing his father and grandparents. Harry Potter was able to hold the Stone without any sign of the curse affecting him thereafter. When Dumbledore used the basilisk venom-infused Sword of Gryffindor to attack the cursed ring, it destroyed the Horcrux and disabled the curse on it. It is unknown if Dumbledore would have escaped the curse if he had simply removed his hand from his body.Īlthough removing the curse from an infected individual was seemingly impossible, it could be removed from the host object if said artefact was damaged to a certain degree. Regardless of the methods of delaying the spread, there was no known way of removing or completely stopping this curse, though Snape claimed that he may have been able to do more to stop the curse had Dumbledore come to him more quickly. It was also the type of curse that would strengthen over time. In the case of Dumbledore, this curse caused serious injury to his hand, causing it to look as if it had died, and would prove fatal in roughly one year. This curse would rapidly cause the death of anyone who came into contact with it, although in certain cases the spread of the curse could be slowed down by magical means. The ring is no longer a Horcrux." - Albus Dumbledore explaining the effects of the curse However, a withered hand does not seem an unreasonable exchange for a seventh of Voldemort's soul. Had it not been - forgive me the lack of seemly modesty - for my own prodigious skill, and for Professor Snape's timely action when I returned to Hogwarts, desperately injured, I might not have lived to tell the tale. And a terrible curse there was upon it too. Dumbledore retained possession of the ring and took to wearing it for a time after its destruction, which left the stone cracked down the middle. The black stone of the ring is the Resurrection Stone, making it the only Horcrux that is also a Hallow." The ring, Harry. Dumbledore managed to "destroy" the Horcrux afterward, in the sense that it no longer functioned as a Horcrux ( HBP23, DH33). Dumbledore found the ring magically concealed in the ruins of the Gaunts' house. Tom wore the ring openly for some time afterward at Hogwarts, but apparently after he turned it into a Horcrux he ceased wearing it. According to Marvolo Gaunt, the ring had been in the Gaunt family for centuries ( HBP10).Īfter Marvolo's death, the ring passed to his son Morfin, but it was stolen by Marvolo's grandson Tom Riddle on the night that Tom Riddle framed Morfin for the murders of the rest of the Riddle family ( HBP17). Marvolo Gaunt’s ring is a large finger ring, clumsily made out of what appeared to be gold, set with a black stone engraved with the symbol for the Deathly Hallows, which Gaunt took to be the Peverell coat of arms.
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