How and when did Voldemort hide the Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw in Hogwarts?

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In Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows part II, Harry comes to realize that the Lost Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw is in Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and that later Harry finds it in the room of requirement. Can anybody point me out how and when Voldemort hid the Diadem (Horcrux) in the school as he must have to visit the school in order to hide it?



Best Answer

He hid it there when he came to ask for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

This is made clear in the books:

So Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out of the Gray Lady. He had traveled to that far-flung forest and retrieved the diadem from its hiding place, perhaps as soon as he left Hogwarts, before he even started work at Borgin and Burkes.
And wouldn’t those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years?
But the diadem, once it became his precious Horcrux, had not been left in that lowly tree.... No, the diadem had been returned secretly to its true home, and Voldemort must have put it there —
“— the night he asked for a job!” said Harry, finishing his thought.
“I beg your pardon?”
“He hid the diadem in the castle, the night he asked Dumbledore to let him teach!” said Harry.
Saying it out loud enabled him to make sense of it all. “He must’ve hidden the diadem on his way up to, or down from, Dumbledore’s office! But it was still worth trying to get the job — then he might’ve got the chance to nick Gryffindor’s sword as well — thank you, thanks!”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, chapter 31: "The Battle of Hogwarts" (emphasis added)




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How did Voldemort hide the diadem?

Rowena sent the Bloody Baron, a man who used to love Helena, to find her. When he caught up with her in a forest in Albania (the same forest Lord Voldemort would use later as a hiding place during his exile), she hid the diadem in a hollow tree.

How did Voldemort know where the diadem was?

He found the diadem in Half Blood Prince. When Snape asked to see his books after the dual with Malfoy in the bathroom, he hid the Prince's book in a cabinet (the vanishing cabinet is mentioned as well) and put and old bust and a \u201ctiara\u201d on top of it to be able to find it later.

Who hid the diadem in the Room of Requirement?

Ten years after the death of Hepzibah Smith, Voldemort returns to Hogwarts, ostensibly to ask Dumbledore for a teaching job.

When did Voldemort get the diadem?

Unknown date between 1946 and 1979: While hiding out in a forest in Albania, Tom Riddle murders a local peasant and sends a piece of his soul into Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem (a.k.a. tiara). It becomes the fifth Horcrux.



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