Hermione smiled and it was all teeth. "The necklace was fake. Cursed, but fake. Similar to the diary — which was enchanted to possess whoever wrote in it and slowly drain them of their magical core — but you didn’t destroy a piece of his soul when you saved little Ginny Weasley’s life. And the ring that killed  Albus," she hissed his name like a curse, "was nothing more than that — a simple ring. He was so blinded by his own hubris, so haunted by the sins of his past, that he didn’t notice that it was nothing more than a cursed ring. He didn’t even  check!"