Chapter 20 Summary

After he recovered from having been poisoned, Ron and Hermione became, once again, friends, even better ones than before. Harry had another lesson with Dumbledore, this time promising to concentrate harder on getting the true memory from Professor Slughorn. Harry summarized the last lesson, that Voldemort had killed his father and grandparents, made it look as though his uncle had committed the crime; and returned to Hogwart's and asked Slughorn about Horcruxes. The first memory they examined this time was that of a house-elf who worked for a rich witch named Hepzibah Smith: Tom Marvolo Riddle, wearing the black-stone ring, visited her on business. She showed him two treasures. The first, a cup, had belonged to Helga Hufflepuff. The second, a locket, had belonged to Slytherin. It was the locket Voldemort's mother, then pregnant, abandoned and penniless, had sold for a fraction of...