J. K. Rowling's 1998 second Harry Potter novel in which Harry confronts the memory of a young Tom Riddle embedded in a diary — facing his shadow self and the origins of Voldemort.
Introduces Tom Riddle's diary as a Horcrux — an object that maintains a fragment of a person's soul — establishing the novel's central conceit that the refusal of mortality fragments identity and ultimately destroys the self.
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