I bok 6, kapitel 4, när Dumbledore tar Harry för att träffa Slughorn, använder han Gaunt's ring för att dra Slughorn:
He shrugged and spread his hands wide, as though to say that age had its compensations, and Harry noticed a ring on his uninjured hand that he had never seen Dumbledore wear before: It was large, rather clumsily made of what looked like gold, and was set with a heavy black stone that had cracked down the middle.
Senare, kapitel 10, efter att ha sett Odans minne, är ringen fortfarande i Dumbledores kontor:
He turned away again, and was almost at the door when he saw it. Sitting on one of the little spindle-legged tables that supported so many frail-looking silver instruments, was an ugly gold ring set with a large, cracked, black stone.
I slutet av kapitel 13, efter Dumbledores minne med unga Tom Riddle, kom så här:
Harry got to his feet. As he walked across the room, his eyes fell I upon the little table on which Marvolo Gaunt's ring had rested last I time, but the ring was no longer there.
"Yes, Harry?" said Dumbledore, for Harry had come to a halt.
"The ring's gone," said Harry, looking around. "But I thought I you might have the mouth organ or something."
Så vi ser att ringen förstördes någonstans däremellan - det är mitt i Harrys 6: e år.
Men i den 7: e boken, i kapitel 33 "Prinsens berättelse" lär vi oss att:
And now Harry stood in the headmaster’s office yet again. It
was nighttime, and Dumbledore sagged sideways in the thronelike
chair behind the desk, apparently semiconscious. His right hand
dangled over the side, blackened and burned. Snape was muttering
incantations, pointing his wand at the wrist of the hand, while
with his left hand he tipped a goblet full of thick golden potion
down Dumbledore’s throat. After a moment or two, Dumbledore’s
eyelids fluttered and opened.
“Why,” said Snape, without preamble, “why did you put on
that ring? It carries a curse, surely you realized that. Why even
touch it?”
Marvolo Gaunt’s ring lay on the desk before Dumbledore. It
was cracked; the sword of Gryffindor lay beside it.
Så ringen förstörs på samma natt fann Dumbledore det!
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