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Horcrux 3: The Slytherin Locket Traditional Cache

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Knagur Green: Sadly as it is now 600 days since it was disabled and past the 2 month grace period you asked for and I allowed after my final warning, this cache willnow have to be archived. Hopefully sometime in the fuure you may be able to place e a new listing here for cachers to find again

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Hidden : 9/16/2018
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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The Locket Fear not! You will not have to enter the Ministry of Magic by flushing yourself down the toilet. You simply have to find the muggle entrance to the Ministry of Magic, but as is always the case, there are many muggles going about their muggle tasks so super stealth is required. The previous Horcrux was taken by pesky muggles so please ensure that no muggle sees you retrieving or replace the cache and the Horcrux is to remain the cache for other brave souls to find. Good luck! The Horcrux Series You are about to embark on an adventure of epic proportion. The fate of the world is in your hands. Lord Voldemort has made 7 Horcruxes that will enable him to live forever. Horcruxes are objects used by Voldemort to conceal parts of his soul and tether him to life. They can only be created after committing murder. ‘Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged.” Horace Slughorn Your task is to find each horcrux, retrieve the clues and find Voldemort before it’s too late. Hidden in each horcrux cache, you will find a number that will help you to find the final location to destroy Voldemort for good. Time is running out! HURRY! ​ Horcrux 3: The Slytherin Locket Slytherin's Locket was a piece of jewellery originally owned by Salazar Slytherin that became an heirloom of his family. It was a locket of heavy gold with a serpentine S in glittering green stone inlay on the front. After descending down from Slytherin, it came into the possession of the Gaunt family, and Marvolo Gaunt treasured this heirloom of this pure-blood heritage along with his ring heirloom. After Marvolo and his son Morfin Gaunt were sent to Azkaban, the locket was stolen by Marvolo's daughter Merope Gaunt, who sold it to Caractacus Burke for ten Galleons, a price far below what the priceless artefact was truly worth. The locket was bought from Borgin and Burkes shop by a wealthy witch with an affinity for rare or valuable items named Hepzibah Smith. In the mid-Twentieth century, Smith showed it to a young Tom Riddle, who was an employee of Borgin and Burkes at the time. Riddle was interested in the locket (which was, after all, his birthright), and two days later, Hepzibah was found dead and her house-elf, Hokey, made a full confession (Riddle presumably performed a False memory charm on her, as he did with his uncle Morfin years earlier). Using the murder of a Muggle tramp, Riddle turned the locket into his third Horcrux and hid it in a seaside cave where he had hurt two children when he was in the orphanage. It was taken from the cave, however, by a defected Death Eater named Regulus Black with the attempt of having his house-elf, Kreacher, destroy it, but the elf was unable to destroy the locket. It was stolen (by Mundungus Fletcher) from 12 Grimmauld Place, the home of the House of Black. During Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger's attempts to find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, they decided to track down the locket first after retrieving the fake one placed by Regulus from the cave. They learned from Mundungus that it was taken from him by a Ministry bureaucrat named Dolores Umbridge, and thus the trio infiltrated the Ministry, found Umbridge, and retrieved the locket. Ron retrieved Godric Gryffindor's Sword from the bottom of a frozen pool (after Harry was almost killed by the Horcrux while attempting to bring the sword up) and was able to destroy the Horcrux with it (the sword was imbued with Basilisk venom, one of the few substances capable of destroying Horcruxes) in the winter of 1997.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)