In the Harry Potter movies, Voldemort made the Horcruxes and hid them in different locations, but he hid two of them in the same place: Hogwarts.
- Tom Riddle's diary in the Chamber of Secrets;
- Ravenclaw's Diadem in the Room of Requirement;
Is there some explanation in the book of why he leaves these two in the same place?
Answer
He didn’t leave the diary at Hogwarts.
He left the diary with Lucius Malfoy for safekeeping, thinking that he would later pass the diary to another Hogwarts student, and open the Chamber of Secrets by proxy. Quoting Dumbledore in Order of the Phoenix:
“There could be no doubt that Riddle really wanted that diary read, wanted the piece of his soul to inhabit or possess somebody else, so that Slytherin’s monster would be unleashed again.”
He thought he could trust his loyal servant to keep the diary safe – a faulty assumption, which is part of the reason why Lucius is so poorly treated in the latter half of the series.
It only found its way to Hogwarts when Lucius dropped it in Ginny’s cauldron (when they meet in Flourish & Blotts, at the start of Chamber of Secrets) – when Malfoy was trying to rid himself of incriminating possessions.
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