When the family was visited by Ministry of Magic official Bob Ogden, Marvolo waved the ring in front of his face in an attempt to impress and intimidate Ogden. Marvolo Gaunt, the family's patriarch at the time, prized this ring, along with Salazar Slytherin's Locket, more than anything, even his own daughter, Merope. The ring continued to be passed down the family line, eventually ending up in the hands of the Gaunts. At some point, it was placed into a gold setting and made into a ring. The stone passed down Cadmus' family line. He'd had loved to think that scratches on the stone were a coat of arms, because as far as he was concerned, having pure-blood made you practically royal." - Harry Potter regarding Gaunt's ignorance of the Hallows, despite possessing one of them There were no books in that house, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales to his kids. If that ring had been passed down through the centuries, he might not have known what it really was. " Marvolo Gaunt was an ignorant old git who lived like a pig, all he cared about was his ancestry. Īn alternative and more logical version of this story proposed by Albus Dumbledore was that Cadmus was merely a very skilled wizard who had created the Resurrection Stone himself. Seeing the stone's limitations drove Cadmus to madness, and he took his own life to truly join his love in death. For Cadmus, it was like being able to see her but not able to touch her or truly be with her. While she did return from the dead, she was not truly alive and wished to go back to the world of the dead since she no longer belonged in the living world. In doing so, he brought back his lover who had suffered an untimely death. Once Cadmus returned to his home, he took out the Resurrection Stone and turned it over in his hand three times. Death supposedly picked up a black stone from the nearby river bank and gave it to Cadmus, promising him that it contained the power he had requested. According to The Tale of the Three Brothers, Cadmus Peverell, the middle brother, asked Death for the power to return people from the dead. The stone happened to be the Resurrection Stone, one of the Deathly Hallows of legend, and had the symbol of the Deathly Hallows engraved on its surface. The ring's story begins (and ends) with its black stone. " Then the second brother, who was an arrogant man, decided that he wanted to humiliate Death still further, and asked for the power to recall others from Death." - The Tale of the Three Brothers by Beedle the Bard ĭeath grants Cadmus Peverell the Resurrection Stone Despite destroying the ring the stone survived and was placed within a Golden Snitch. In 1996, Albus Dumbledore retrieved the ring, eventually destroying it with Godric Gryffindor's Sword. Tom did not enchant the ring right away, as he was seen wearing it while asking Horace Slughorn about Horcruxes, as seen through Slughorn's memories in a pensieve. He later made the ring into his second Horcrux. While at Hogwarts, Tom openly wore the ring. Unknown to either Gaunt or Riddle, the stone was actually the legendary artefact known as the Resurrection Stone, and the "coat of arms" was the symbol of the Deathly Hallows. The ring passed through the male Gaunts, generation to generation, until it was stolen from Morfin Gaunt by Tom Riddle, while Tom framed Morfin for the murders of the Riddle family. It was a gold ring inset with a black stone, engraved with what Marvolo Gaunt called the Peverell coat of arms, as it had come into the Gaunt line from an heiress of the Peverells, not the Slytherin family. Marvolo Gaunt's Ring was an heirloom of the House of Gaunt, descendants of Salazar Slytherin and Cadmus Peverell. " See this? See this? Know what it is? Know where it came from? Centuries it's been in our family, that's how far back we go, and pure-blood all the way! Know how much I've been offered for this, with the Peverell coat of arms engraved on the stone?" - Marvolo Gaunt brandishing his ring at Bob Ogden
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