What Are Horcruxes And Why Are They Important In The Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince?

The coming adventure, suspense, thriller, exciting but difficult task of Harry Potter begins on the 11th of July in the summer. The fans of Harry Potter have been waiting quite a long time now to watch the sixth sequel of Harry potter saga known as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Lot of adventure and difficult tasks lay ahead of him in the upcoming movie. Every one is hoping and expecting from the makers of the movie to cover successfully all the major events and happenings in it. With the death of Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter is now left with another difficult mission that is to bring the downfall of Lord Voldemort. By doing so, he has to find the hidden parts of Tom Riddle’s soul that are called the “Horcruxes” in order to bring his downfall.

He has to fulfill this difficult and riveting task without the support or help of his most important protector Albus Dumbledore. None of us was familiar with the term Horcruxes before reading the sixth part of Harry Potter saga not Harry himself. When he started his meetings with Dumbledore, he showed him the memories of different people, based on Lord Voldemort.

It was about his life in childhood, orphanage and when finally he was visited by Dumbledore to join the Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. He showed Harry all the memories in the Pencieve and then the most sluggish memory came in which Voldemort was asking professor Slughorn’s (teacher in Hogwarts) about the a very dark stuff ‘Hocruxes’. He first hesitated to tell him about it but when due to the best records as a student he decided to tell him.

Slughorn told Voldemort that Horcruxes means to split up your soul in to pieces and transfer the soul into some non-living or living things. He further told Voldemort that you can split up your soul in to maximum seven parts but it is indeed a very painful act. After that, the memory ended.

Dumbledore’s utter belief was the Voldemort also divided his soul in seven parts to evade death. The first Horcrux was the Riddle’s Diary in the second part of Harry Potter saga (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) which Harry successfully destroyed. Second part of his soul was the ring, which Dumbledore was wearing. It was cursed and was destroyed too.

In the intention of destroying the third part of his soul, which was in a locket, they went to the cave but the locket was not original and Harry came to know it after Dumbledore’s death, which went in vain. Now it’s up to Harry to find the rest of the Horcruxes in order to defeat voldemort and get the whole wizard world of him. All he has the memories and the will or courage to do it.

We should all hope that the movie of the sixth part would be as much thrilling and amazing as the novel had been and we should keep our fingers crossed for the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie to reach the every pinnacle of success. Critics are eagerly waiting for this movie to be launched and give their views and opinions after watching it.