![]() ![]() 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 and cursed it. 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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