"But there isn't much life left in her: she put too much into the diary, into me. The trigger in the case of the diary was Ginny pouring enough of her soul into the diary that Riddle was strong enough to leave. The trigger for this in the case of the locket was Harry opening the locket through Parseltongue. They live, they wait, they prey and - when powerful enough and when the circumstances allow - they speak and break out of the confines of their Horcrux. On both cases, neither of them are exactly memories. In other words, the locket-Riddle behaves and acts remarkably like the diary-Riddle. Ron yelled in shock and backed away as the figures blossomed out of the locket, first chests, then waists, then legs, until they stood in the locket, side by side like trees with a common root. Out of the locket's two windows, out of the eyes, there bloomed, like two grotesque bubbles, the heads of Harry and Hermione, weirdly distorted. It speaks, it channels Harry and Hermione and it even bursts out of the confines of its object to become a physical apparition. During this scene it proves its sentience. The locket speaks with Riddle's voice and contains Riddle's eye because it contains a piece of Riddle. " Least loved, always, by the mother who craved a daughter.least loved, now, by the girl who prefers your cond best, always, eternally over-shadowed." "Stab!" shouted Harry his voice echoed off the surrounding trees, the sword point trembled, and Ron gazed down into Riddle's eyes. ![]() All that you desire is possible, but all that you fear is also possible." " I have seen your dreams, Ronald Weasley, and I have seen your fears. ![]() "Don't listen to it!" Harry said harshly. " I have seen your heart, and it is mine." Then a voice hissed from out of the Horcrux. Voldemort is cruel and manipulative, and therefore so is the locket. The locket-Horcrux replicates the character and personality of the man whose soul it contains. The soul piece in the Horcrux is audible, beats faster when excited and is even able to attempt executions. ![]() (Deathly Hallows, Chapter 19, The Silver Doe). It was not weed: the chain of the Horcrux had tightened and was slowly constricting his wind pipe. He thought of water weeds, though nothing had brushed him as he dived, and raised his empty hand to free himself. Then something tightened around his neck. (Deathly Hallows, Chapter 17, Bathilda's Secret). Did it know, could it sense, that the thing that would destroy it was near? Harry became aware of the locket against his skin the thing inside it that sometimes ticked or beat had woken he could feel it pulsing through the cold gold. (Deathly Hallows, Chapter 14, The Thief). Was it his own blood pulsing through his veins that he could feel, or was it something beating inside the locket, like a tiny metal heart? After a moment or two, Harry thought he knew what Ron meant. Rather, they are living and listening spirits which respond to what's happening around them. We see from the locket in Deathly Hallows that soul pieces in Horcruxes are not dormant, static objects which wait silently in storage. Kevin makes this point but I thought I'd add a longer answer to explain why exactly this is the case. It was actually an alert and living soul piece which had access to Lord Voldemort's memory and life experiences at the moment the Horcrux was created. Consequently, Riddle describes the diary as a memory bank. Voldemort, naturally, was very secretive about his Horcruxes and would never name a Horcrux for what it really is under any circumstances. The confusion is created because Voldemort is the one who describes the diary as a book of memories. Voldemort placed his memories inside the diary alongside his soul when he turned it into a Horcrux. As the quote says, the memories were infused into the diary in a "more lasting way than ink" - what kind of magic would enable this to happen? How did Tom Riddle infuse the diary with his own memories? (I realize that Tom Riddle used a quill and ink to write the words into the diary what I'm asking is how the memories became embedded in the diary, and how they remained sentient.). ‘I mean that this diary holds memories of terrible things. ‘What do you mean?’ Harry scrawled, blotting the page in his excitement. But I always knew that there would be those who would not want this diary read.’ ‘ Lucky that I recorded my memories in some more lasting way than ink. ![]() ‘Someone tried to flush it down a toilet.’ He waited eagerly for Riddle’s reply. These words, too, faded away, but not before Harry had started to scribble back. Not only did it store a portion of Voldemort's soul, but it had the ability to allow Voldemort to possess others, to make emotional connections with another, and to lead them to open the Chamber of Secrets. How did Tom Riddle get his memories into the diary?ĭumbledore explains to Harry in Half-Blood Prince that out of all the Horcruxes, the diary is both a Horcrux and a weapon.
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