There are many sins to choose from when the Riddles are described as "rich, snobbish and rude." 21 From greed to pride and on to anger. When Tom Riddle Snr. returned to his home after his ill-fated marriage to Merope Gaunt, he had good reason to feel angry and ill-used. For this reason, it is the sin of Anger that relates the most strongly to the Ringcrux. When Tom Riddle Snr. is described as "even more [snobbish and rude]" 22 it becomes clear that he would be the second Horcrux victim. After all, Morfin Gaunt, Tom Riddle's bad-tempered neighbour, had jinxed him with hives. Then Morfin's sister, Merope, drugged him to make him marry her, instead of Cecilia, the girl he had been courting.

It is hard to say which Tom Riddle would be the angrier. Tom Marvolo Riddle Junior, Merope's son, so angry he stole his uncle Morfin's wand as well as his grandfather Marvolo's Peverell ring, on his way to murder Tom Riddle Snr. and his grandparents. Or Tom Riddle Snr. who was coerced with love potion and forced to explain to the villagers that he was ˜˜taken in" and "hoodwinked" 23 when Merope fell pregnant. However, it is not only Voldemort's penurious Muggle orphanage upbringing that he resents. He is so enraged by Tom Riddle Snr., whom he sees as "a foul, common Muggle" 24 who left Merope to die because "his wife was a witch' 25 that he utterly rejects any resemblance to his father, as well as refusing to be identified any longer as Tom Riddle.

It is significant that when he makes his second Horcrux out of the Peverell Ring, Voldemort uses his father's murder, and not the murder of his grandparents. Maybe the elder Riddles chose to close ranks to shield their son Tom, despite the scandal caused by his eloping with "the tramp's daughter, Merope." 26 It is even more significant that when he murders his paternal family, the schoolboy Tom Riddle uses the Avada Kedavra curse on all of them. As Bellatrix said, Avada Kedavra, which would henceforth become Lord Voldemort's signature spell, is an unforgivable killing curse which needs considerably more than "righteous anger" 27 to be effective ’ indicating how strongly Voldemort must have hated them. As if to underline his angry intentions, Voldemort, who wore the Ringcrux openly at school, returns it to remain at the Gaunt cottage. But Morfin Gaunt, who was blamed for the murders, dies in Azkaban,28 mourning the loss of his father's ring, whilst angry with Merope for taking Slytherin's locket.

Like the elder Tom Riddle, Dumbledore also neglected his family to pursue infatuated dreams of the Deathly Hallows with Gellert Grindelwald.29 But the love Dumbledore felt for his family was very different from the hatred that Voldemort displayed. Unlike either Tom Riddle, Dumbledore blamed himself, believed the best of others, and strove to make amends. Remorseful for the death of his sister, Dumbledore patiently seeks the Resurrection Stone, one of the Deathly Hallows, which can summon the souls of those already dead to comfort those who are about to die.30 Finally he is rewarded for his patience when he finds the Resurrection Stone set in the Ringcrux, and impulsively tries to use it to seek his sister's forgiveness,31 forgetting how dangerously violent the angry Ringcrux would be. Though desperately wounded, Dumbledore returns to his office, where, as a worthy Gryffindor, he is entitled to use Gryffindor's Sword, impregnated with basilisk venom, to destroy the Ringcrux. And so the Ringcrux, made by an angry Tom Riddle Jnr. from the murder of an angry Tom Riddle Snr. and hidden in bad-tempered Morfin's house, is destroyed by the patient Dumbledore. Dumbledore's faith in others is justified when Snape comes to his aid to treat his wounded hand, thereby confirming that the opposing virtues of patience and faith would destroy the piece of Voldemort's soul cut off angrily to make the Ringcrux.