What spell can destroy a Horcrux?

How Can Horcruxes Be Destroyed?
  • The killing curse — “Avada Kedavra.”
  • Fiendfyre — a curse that creates powerful and magical flames.
  • Godric Gryffindor's sword — one that was pulled from the Sorting Hat.
  • Basilisk's venom — acquired from a tooth of the giant Basilisk snake in the bowels of Hogwarts.
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What can destroy a Horcrux?

The only things known to be capable of destroying a Horcrux were the venom of a Basilisk, the most fearsome and deadly creature in the Wizarding world, and Fiendfyre, a dangerous and advanced curse that produced powerful enchanted flames that required extreme skill and concentration to control.
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Can Avada Kedavra destroy Horcrux?

A Horcrux is considered destroyed when it's damaged beyond repair. In the case of living Horcruxes, “damaged beyond repair” would mean dead. So, yes, Avada Kedavra can destroy a Horcrux, as long as that Horcrux is a living being.
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Why can Basilisk Fang destroy Horcruxes?

After being healed, Harry took the fang and stabbed Riddle's diary, destroying that Horcrux beyond magical repair. Because Harry had stabbed the Basilisk with the sword, it was imbued with Basilisk venom and was therefore able to destroy Horcruxes and poison opponents that it cut through as well.
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Which is destructive enough to destroy a Horcrux when exposed to it?

Basilisk venom- The venom is one of the few substances known to be capable of destroying Horcruxes, causing them fatal damage that cannot be repaired. It only has one antidote: phoenix tears which is an incredibly rare substance as well.
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Did Ron use Avada Kedavra on Nagini?

Ron never cast any kind of curse on Nagini, not in the book anyways. And there's no confirmation that the spell he used on her in the movies was the Killing Curse. Avada Kedavra isn't the only spell that creates green light, after all.
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Did Harry ever use Avada Kedavra?

Harry used the Imperius Curse multiple times during the Gringotts heist to accomplish their mission. Harry never used the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, due to his moral stance against murder and his personal connection to its victims.
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Why wasn t the Horcrux in Harry destroyed when the basilisk bit him?

Harry Potter was wounded by the venom and would have died if Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes hadn't shed healing tears upon him, but the fact that he was healed also prevented the Horcrux inside him from being destroyed.
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Why did the basilisk venom not destroy Harry's Horcrux?

Because Harry didn't die. To destroy the soul-fragment within a Horcrux, you need to destroy its vessel beyond all magical repair, and in the case of Horcruxes made out of living things like Harry or Nagini, “beyond all magical repair” means death.
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Is Harry bitten by a basilisk?

Harry got stabbed with a basilisk fang in Book 2.
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What was the hardest Horcrux to destroy?

Tom Riddle gained Salazar Slytherin's locket after it was sold by his mother to Hepzibah Smith. He would eventually kill a Muggle to make it a Horcrux. Salazar Slytherin's locket was one of the most difficult Horcruxes to find and destroy.
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What spell killed Voldemort?

Yes, Harry used expelliarmus, it was sort of his signature spell. Expelliarmus did do it's thing. It disarmed Voldemort and Harry caught the Elder wand. But it was Voldemort's spell that rebounded and killed Voldemort.
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Can expelliarmus block Avada Kedavra?

Expelliarmus did not beat Avada Kedavra. Because of the horcrux in Harry, Voldemort could have never killed Harry. In the graveyard, we see Voldemort almost bear Harry but his wand went on priori incantatem mode giving Harry a chance to escape.
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Why is Snape the Half Blood Prince?

Snape was born to Eileen Prince, a witch, and Tobias Snape, a Muggle, making him a half-blood (hence the name, "Half-Blood Prince"). This is rare for a Death Eater, as remarked in the last book, though Voldemort himself also had a Muggle father.
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Which Horcrux was killed last?

Nagini is the last Horcrux that Voldemort created and the last one to be destroyed. During the final battle of Hogwarts, Neville pulls the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, destroying the last Horcrux.
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Is Professor Quirrell A Horcrux?

Professor Quirrell was a temporary type of Horcrux while Voldemort inhabited his body, which is confirmed in the Wizarding World. It is possible that Voldemort created more temporary Horcruxes, such as the animals he possessed while in ghostly form.
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Why wasn t Hermione affected by the Horcrux?

So, Harry and Ron are more affected by the Horcrux. On the other hand, Hermione is always the most reasonable one with the most clear sense of judgment. Very often she let her emotions supersede her sense of logic. So the horcrux cannot affect her as badly.
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Why did Harry survive if he was a Horcrux?

Voldemort unwittingly makes himself a Horcrux for Harry, although it might not be called that, by taking his blood earlier. In taking Harry's blood to regenerate himself, Voldemort ensures that Harry will not die if Voldemort kills him. The blood ties Harry to Voldemort's life, therefore Harry will live.
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How did the basilisk Fang still have venom?

Basilisk venom is so potent that it can remain in a fang for decades after it's death. In theory they recovered a fang from the basilisk's body and used it to destroy the cup. not sure how much venom remains on the fang after 5 years, but apparently if works for the sword of Griffindor so why not a basilisk fang.
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How did Harry know to use the Basilisk Fang?

In the book, it says that Harry looked at the diary and the fang he happened to have in his hand, and just suddenly knew to stab it, “As if it is what he had come here to do.” It was entirely intuitive.
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Did Voldemort know Harry killed the Basilisk?

Did Voldemort ever find out the Basilisk was dead? yes. in HBP it is revealed he "forced" Lucious to admit he lost Tom Riddle's diary and we can assume Voldermort deduced with its destruction the Basilisk was also dead.
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Why doesn t Harry talk to the Basilisk?

Of course, at that moment, Harry Potter didn't know there was a piece of Voldemort's soul in him, so he wouldn't have even tried to communicate with the Basilisk, but had he tried and succeeded at it, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets would have ended very differently.
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When did McGonagall use an unforgivable curse?

In the Deathly Hallows, Professor McGonagall used the Imperius Curse. How did she learn this spell? Probably the same way that Harry did, in a Defence Against the Dark Arts class. Obviously students wouldn't be taught to cast the Unforgivable Curses, but learning about them is part and parcel of learning Defence.
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What spell killed Bellatrix?

In the final movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2, Molly first hits Bella with a spell that freezes her, most likely Petrificus Totalus. Then, she launches another one that shatters her entire body into pieces, which could be expelliarmus, bombarda, stupefy, or any spell that can produce such an effect.
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What spell can block Avada Kedavra?

One of the three Unforgivable Curses outlawed under wizarding law, Avada Kedavra kills the victim on impact, instantaneously and painlessly, usually with a blinding flash of green light. There is no way to block the spell, and there is no counter-curse - it can only be dodged.
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