During his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry was given extra lessons with Dumbledore which he gladly accepted. The lessons was not practicing defensive magic useful against Voldemort or brewing useful potions that will help him survive when he confronted the Dark Lord. It was all turned out to be diving deeper into the life of Tom Riddle, the boy who became Lord Voldemort.
As Harry and Dumbledore finally draw to the near end of their lesson, Harry was assigned by Dumbledore an important assignment which was to extract the true and important memory from Horace Slughorn. Harry managed to get it and one of the important parts of the epic series unfolded. Voldemort tore his very own soul into seven or in short, he made seven Horcruxes.
A Horcrux is a "receptacle in which a Dark wizard has hidden a part of his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality.” It is one of the deepest, darkest and most evil branches of dark magic. In addition, Voldemort became less human because of the mentioned seven Horcruxes he had made which he believed will help him revive and achieve immortality.
According to Dumbledore, Voldemort made six where Harry already destroyed one and he also destroyed another which left only four while the seventh and final Horcrux resides with Voldemort himself. The Horcrux which Harry had destroyed was the diary of Tom Riddle. In his second year at Hogwarts encountered Tom Riddle through the mysterious diary owned by Tom himself. The diary was originally handed to Ginny where she confessed to an anonymous friend dwelled inside every pages of the diary her deepest and darkest secrets. Later, the diary found Harry and Tom himself revealed that a part of himself dwells inside that diary. Harry on the other hand managed to destroy it through a basilisk’s fang and the Riddle in the diary was destroyed.
Dumbledore on the other hand, destroyed the ring which owned by Marvolo, a pure descendant of Salazar Slytherin. He’s also the father of Merope, the woman who gave birth to Tom Riddle. However, the cost of destroying the ring was tough because Dumbledore’s right hand (which is his wand hand) was blackened.
The two journeyed to a place where Voldemort concealed another part of his soul or in short, another Horcrux. It was the silver locket owned by Merope Gaunt. Both managed to get the Horcrux but the price was Dumbledore’s death. Harry then realized that the locket was just a duplicate copy and the original locket was stolen by a person who introduced himself through his initials “R.A.B.”
With his greatest protector death, Harry accepted the mission that he must now track the remaining Horcruxes. This is part of the plot of the seventh and final series. Harry didn’t return to Hogwarts in order to seek the four remaining Horcruxes and destroy them before confronting Lord Voldemort. The four remaining Horcruxes are: Hufflepuff’s cup, Slytherin’s true locket, Nagini and something owned by whether Ravenclaw or Gryffindor.
In The Deathly Hallows, we learned that Rowena Ravenclaw’s lost diadem was made into Horcrux by Voldemort himself when he found it somewhere in the
The cup owned by Helga Hufflepuff was destroyed by Hermione in the Chamber of Secrets using the remained fang of the basilisk.
Rowena Ravenclaw’s diadem was said to be lost but Harry discovered that it was stolen from Rowena herself after the confession of the Grey Lady of Ravenclaw, a ghost in Hogwarts. The Grey Lady confessed that she is Helena Ravenclaw, the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw. Harry found the diadem inside the Room of Requirement and later it was destroyed by Fiendfyre cast by Vincent Crabbe and also killed Crabbe.
Nagini died in the hands of Neville Longbottom when he pulled the Sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and consequently beheaded Nagini.
But, it is surprising to say that Harry was totally astounded by the revelation from Dumbledore that he is the seventh and final Horcrux. Voldemort is unaware of this or probably the connection between them and Harry. The boy who survived the attack of Lord Voldemort through his mother’s sacrifice became famous and recognizable through the lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. Voldemort’s defeat brought joys to the Wizarding community and praised the young boy thus called him a hero. However, as Harry grew up, entered Hogwarts and encountered Lord Voldemort his scar prickled with pain for a reason he didn’t fully understand except that the brief explanation or opinion it only hurts when Voldemort is near him.
During his fifth year, he was haunted by terrifying dreams of seeing himself inside Lord Voldemort. He, in addition, able to sees things which Voldemort sees and feels what Voldemort feels. This incomprehensible connection between Harry and the Dark Lord brought Harry to the hands of Snape who taught him Occlumency, another complex branch of magic which deals with blocking the mind of one from being penetrated by another. Dumbledore too had sensed this which is the reason why he kept avoiding Harry during his fifth year because every time he looks upon Harry, he sees Voldemort stir from Harry’s eyes. The scar itself connected Harry to Voldemort; he inherited some powers of Voldemort after the failed attempt to kill him.
When Voldemort cast the Killing Curse to Harry during their final confrontation in the place where Aragog formally resides somewhere deep in the
The result, Voldemort once more became mortal.
(Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon)
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