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Wizarding
World
Dark
Magic items
"I
have a few -- ah -- items at home that might embarrass me, if the Ministry
were to call...as you can see, certain of these poisons --"
-- Lucious Malfoy to Mr. Borgin
Dark
Magic items are magical artifacts that contain sinister, dangerous
magical powers. Some, like the Hand of Glory, simply give light, but are
obviously created using evil magic; the Hand actually uses a real human
hand, for example. Other Dark Magic items are cursed, like the opal necklace
in Borgin and Burkes.
The
Diary of Tom Riddle
My
sister used to commit her innermost thoughts to her diary. Her great fear
was that someone would read it. That's how the idea came to me of a diary
that is itself against you. You would be confiding everything to pages
that aren't inanimate.
-- J.K. Rowling (interview in Sydney Morning Herald, 10/2001)
One of the
more interesting and dangerous Dark Magic items is the diary of Tom
Riddle. This simple diary, originally purchased by Riddle in a Muggle
shop on Vauxhall Street in London, was bewitched. Tom Riddle, who would
soon thereafter become Lord Voldemort,
placed some of his own thoughts and intentions into the diary, hoping to
preserve the work he'd done for years to find and open the Chamber
of Secrets. The diary appeared blank, but when someone wrote onto it's
blank pages, Tom Riddle as he was during his years at Hogwarts wrote messages
back. Lucius Malfoy had kept the diary for years until he had a chance
to plant it on Ginny Weasley, slipping it into her Transfiguration textbook.
Tom used the diary to influence Ginny into opening the Chamber again and
loosing the Basilisk.
Harry Potter defeated this memory version of Tom Riddle by plunging the
broken, poisoned fang of the Basilisk into the diary. When he did this,
all the ink spewed out of the it and with it poured out the Dark Magical
enchantment..
Borgin
& Burkes of Knockturn
Alley sells quite a variety of Dark Arts magic items (CS4). They include:
-
a withered hand
on a cushion called "The Hand of Glory" which,
when a candle is inserted into it, gives light only to the holder
NOTE:
The Hand of Glory is drawn from English folklore, described as a withered
human hand whose fingers, when lit like candles, cast a charmed sleep on
members of the household so the thief can rob the house. [WEB
LINK]
-
blood-stained
playing cards
-
a staring glass
eye
-
evil-looking masks
-
human bones
-
rusty, spiked
instruments
-
long coil of hangman's
rope
-
opal necklace
which is cursed and has claimed the lives of nineteen Muggles
Other Dark Magic
items available in Knockturn Alley include:
-
shrunken heads
-
live gigantic
black spiders
-
poisonous candles
-
human fingernails
-
Flesh-Eating Slug
Repellent
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