Hepzibah Smith, Not in the Movie, Now on Pottermore: Riddle #8

One of Voldemort’s memories that Dumbledore shows Harry in the pensieve in the Half-Blood Prince book, but not in the movie, featured a very rich witch named Hepzibah Smith. The significance of this character is that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) presumably poisons her after the encounter in the memory, where she shows Tom (trying to show off) Salazar Slytherin’s locket and Helga Hufflepuff’s goblet, which Voldemort then steals to create horcruxes with them.

There is no new information about Hepzibah Smith that can’t already be found in the book. In fact, there’s no new content from J.K. Rowling in this moment at all. Furthermore, there are no collectibles in this moment either, at least, none that I’ve been able to find, and my “status bar” is almost full. To fill the status bar, it was simply a matter of hovering my mouse over Smith’s many boxes containing jewelry and vases containing house plants.

Should you be interested in seeing this new moment, you have to, as with these previous seven days of Christmas so far, answer a riddle. Here is today’s riddle (from the Pottermore Insider):

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The answer includes both the first and last name: Salazar Slytherin. Since there was no new content from JKR added, the Pottermore Index remains unaltered. Check back tomorrow for (hopefully) a new article!