When he was a teenager, Tom Riddle worked at the magical shop of Borgin and Burke's. This allowed him to locate certain powerful relics such as Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and the Locket of Slytherin ...

The object was Voldemort/Tom Riddle's diary from his youth ... Hepzibah showed Riddle the locket and Hufflepuff's cup while he was working at Borgin and Burkes, and he stole both from her ...

He befriended Hepzibah Smith, a descendant of Helga Hufflepuff, who had ... the First Wizarding War officially began. In 1970, Tom Riddle declared himself the Dark Lord, or Lord Voldemort, and ...