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A grain of sand lost on a beach.

A tiny pebble lying unnoticed on the ocean floor.

A fallen acorn buried under years of autumn leaves, a faded sea shell washed ashore on an uninhabited island.

These are just a few examples of the kinds of objects that I would use if I was in the position

to create my own hawkers. And I'm sure the same can be said for a lot

of you. Why? Well, they're small, hard to locate, and perhaps most important of all, meaningless.

But somehow, Voldemort missed the memo here, and instead chose objects that were eventually

linked back to him. So, the obvious questions here are are why was Voldemort so particular in his

selection process for potential Hawkerxes? And why didn't he choose things that would be virtually

impossible to find? After all, had he done what seemed so obvious to pick meaningless,

inanimate objects, he may still be ruling over the wizarding world.

One Reddit user summed it up pretty well in just one sentence.

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