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When he caught up with her in a forest in Albania the same forest Lord Voldemort would use as a hiding place during his exile , she hid the diadem in a hollow tree. Upon her refusal to return with him, the Baron stabbed her; horrified by what he had just done, the Baron then stabbed himself as well. The diadem was later found to be lost hence the name "the lost diadem" , and was sought after by students for hundreds of years.
Centuries later, Tom Marvolo Riddle managed to charm the story out of Helena's spirit, then known as the Grey Lady , ghost of the Ravenclaw house. Upon learning of the diadem's location, Riddle travelled to the Albanian forest shortly after he left school and acquired the diadem. Riddle was arrogant enough to believe that he alone had penetrated Hogwarts' most mysterious secrets, and thus he believed that only he had discovered the Room of Requirement , where he intended to hide the diadem.
Riddle chose to hide the diadem in this room the night he returned to the castle to request a position to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts. Unlike the other Horcruxes, Riddle did not put up heavy magical protections for the diadem, due to his lack of time to do so, along with his arrogance.
The diadem remained undisturbed in the "Room of Hidden things" for many decades, until it was sighted by Harry Potter during his sixth year as a "discoloured old tiara", though he did not realise what it was, grabbing it and placing on top of a chipped bust of an ugly old warlock as a means of landmarking where he had placed his Potions book. In , accompanied by Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry returned to Hogwarts in search of an object belonging to Ravenclaw, having learned that through the mental connection he held with Voldemort that it was hidden at the school.
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He was told of her lost diadem by several Ravenclaw members of Dumbledore's Army , and visited Ravenclaw Tower with Luna Lovegood to see the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw wearing her diadem. Later, Harry managed to coax the story of the diadem's theft out of the Grey Lady before figuring out exactly where it was hidden. He was confronted by Draco Malfoy , Gregory Goyle , and Vincent Crabbe before he could reach the diadem, and a battle ensued within the Room of Requirement in its form as the Room of Hidden Things , resulting in Crabbe's creation of Fiendfyre that then went out of his control and resulted in his death.
Harry was able to acquire the diadem, but was saved the trouble of having to destroy it, since the Fiendfyre had accidentally incinerated it. The diadem crumbled to pieces in his hands upon their escape from the Room of Requirement. The next moment, he, Ron, and Hermione were engulfed, hugged, pounded on the back, their hair ruffled, their hands shaken, by what seemed to be more than twenty people. They might have just won a Quidditch final. He did not recognize the dorm at all. Multicolored hammocks were strung from the ceiling and from the balcony that ran around the dark wood-paneled and windowless walls, which were covered in bright tapestry hangings.
Harry saw the gold Gryffindor lion, emblazoned on scarlet; the black badger of Hufflepuff, set against yellow; and the bronze eagle of Ravenclaw, on blue. The silver and green of Slytherin alone were absent. There were bulging bookcases, a few broomsticks propped against the walls, and in the corner, a large wood-cased wireless.
The Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! He really gets this room. I went through it and met Aberforth. Now that he looked around properly, he recognized many familiar faces.
There was a smattering of applause and a few whoops; Ron took a bow. Before any of them could parry the question with one of their own, Harry felt a terrible, scorching pain in the lightning scar. He looked at Ron and Hermione, trying to tell them without words that Voldemort had just discovered the loss of one of the other Horcruxes. Time was running out fast: If Voldemort chose to visit Hogwarts next, they would miss their chance. His scar was still burning.
Nobody was laughing or whooping anymore. There was a ripple of muttering at this: A couple of them rose from their chairs to demonstrate their willingness for immediate action. Harry found it difficult to gather his thoughts.
His scar was still searing. The tunnel door had just opened behind him. Hello you three, I thought you must be here! It was Luna and Dean. Seamus gave a great roar of delight and ran to hug his best friend. How did you --? We all thought that if you came back, it would mean revolution. That we were going to overthrow Snape and the Carrows.
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There was another noise behind them, and Harry turned. His heart seemed to fall: Ginny was now climbing through the hole in the wall, closely followed by Fred, George, and Lee Jordan. Ginny gave Harry a radiant smile: He had forgotten, he had never fully appreciated, how beautiful she was, but he had never been less pleased to see her.
She smiled at him. Ron turned suddenly to Harry. Harry thought fast, his scar still prickling, his head threatening to split again.
Dumbledore had warned him against telling anyone but Ron and Hermione about the Horcruxes. But Dumbledore had trusted Snape, and where had that led? To murder at the top of the highest tower …. Fred and George, who had been cracking jokes for the benefit of those nearest, fell silent, and all of the looked alert, excited. It might have belonged to Ravenclaw. Has anyone heard of an object like that? Has anyone come across something with her eagle on it, for instance?
I told you about it, remember, Harry? The lost diadem of Ravenclaw? They all shook their heads. But Harry cut across Luna. They all shook their heads again.
Harry looked at Ron and Hermione and his own disappointment was mirrored back at him. An object that had been lost this long, and apparently without trace, did not seem like a good candidate for the Horcrux hidden in the castle … Before he could formulate a new question, however, Cho spoke again. For a moment the Room of Requirement swam before him, and he saw instead the dark earth soaring beneath him and felt the great snake wrapped around his shoulders. Voldemort was flying again, whether to the. Either way, there was hardly any time left.