Tom Riddle's diary is a fictional magical object that appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It initially appears to be a magical diary that, if one writes in, Tom Riddle, a student at Hogwarts fifty years ago, writes back. By the end of the novel it is revealed that Tom Riddle is in fact Voldemort, and that the diary is a powerful artifact associated with him. In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince similar objects to the diary ar...
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Tom Riddle's diary is a fictional magical object that appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It initially appears to be a magical diary that, if one writes in, Tom Riddle, a student at Hogwarts fifty years ago, writes back. By the end of the novel it is revealed that Tom Riddle is in fact Voldemort, and that the diary is a powerful artifact associated with him. In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince similar objects to the diary are revealed.
Unknown to Harry and his friends, the young Tom Riddle became Lord Voldemort. Fifty years ago, he opened the Chamber of Secrets and attacks on Hogwarts students began. Hagrid, a student at the time, was accused and expelled. Because it was unsafe to open the Chamber again while a suspicious Albus Dumbledore kept an eye on him, Riddle created the diary, sealing a part of his sixteen-year-old self into it. Voldemort entrusted the dangerous book to Death Eater Lucius Malfoy shortly before his downfall. Years later, Malfoy slipped it...
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