GC2BBP5 Horcrux #2 - Tom Riddle's Diary (Auckland) (Traditional Cache) in North Island, New Zealand created by Ledge End

This cache has been archived.

ledge end: Think this would all be more manageable as 8 discrete caches rather than as a series, so I am beginning the archiving process.
The un-archived caches will be findable until the end of Feb to give everyone who wants to a chance to find them.
Anyone who finds the remaining 5 caches can email me for the final cache's co-ords so that you can finish the series.

Thanks all for dropping by over the last year and a half :)

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A cache by Ledge End Message this owner

Hidden : 7/6/2010

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Tom Riddle's Diary is the second Horcrux in the Harry Potter series, and is the second cache of seven in this Harry Potter-themed series.

Inside each of the seven caches is part of the co-ordinates for the puzzle cache (GC2ATK8). Find the horcruxes, destroy (log) them and then defeat (log...) He Who Must Not Be Named.
A 400ml systema container without camo, but well covered.

A horcrux is receptacle in which a Dark wizard has hidden a part of his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality.
Tom Riddle used his diary to create his second Horcrux during his fifth year at Hogwarts. He cast the spell after murdering his fellow classmate Moaning Myrtle using the Basilisk. The diary is introduced in the second chapter of the Chamber of Secrets and is destroyed by Harry Potter during the climax of the same book. Before Voldemort's downfall, he entrusted the Horcrux to Lucius Malfoy. While aware of its corrupting magical properties, Malfoy did not know the diary was a Horcrux. In an attempt to discredit Arthur Weasley, Malfoy hid the diary in Ginny Weasley's cauldron, amidst her other books. Tom Riddle's soul-fragment possessed Ginny and, through her, reopened the Chamber of Secrets. At the end of book two, Harry saved Ginny and destroyed the diary by stabbing it with the venomous fang of a Basilisk, making it the first Horcrux to be destroyed. His reports of the diary's behaviour to Dumbledore were the latter's first inkling that Voldemort might have created not just one Horcrux, but several: "What intrigued and alarmed me most was that the diary had been intended as a weapon as much as a safeguard," implying that Voldemort must have had backups of some sort.
To Rowling, a diary is a very scary object. She said in an interview "the temptation particularly for a young girl, is to pour out her heart to a diary." Rowling's little sister Diane was prone to this, and her great fear was that someone would read her diary. This gave Rowling the idea to have a diary that is, in itself, against the confider. When asked what would have happened if Ginny had died and Riddle had managed to escape, Rowling declined to give a straight answer, but revealed that "it would have strengthened the present-day Voldemort considerably."

Please leave everything as you found it.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

~8z bss genpx, oruvaq gerr naq haqre gur "angheny" cvyr bs ebpxf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)