--- title: "2.13 The Very Secret Diary" date: 2020-05-18T07:30:26-04:00 draft: false tags: - Chamber of Secrets episodeTitle: "The Very Secret Diary" episodeSubtitle: "A story was given out that the girl had died in a freak accident. They gave me a nice, shiny, engraved trophy for my trouble and warned me to keep my mouth shut. But I knew it could happen again. The monster lived on, and the one who had the power to release it was not imprisoned." episodeLength: 33101652 episodeURL: https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/chamber/213TheVerySecretDiary.mp3 episodeDuration: 45:15 episodeSeason: 2 episodeNumber: 13 featuredImage: /pottermore/213.webp --- {{< audio src="https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/chamber/213TheVerySecretDiary.mp3" >}} It's Monday and that means a new episode of Podtrificus Totalus, the universe's favorite Harry Potter podcast! In this week's chapter, Harry finds a mystery diary that belonged to a T.M. Riddle fifty years ago -- the same amount of time that has passed since the Chamber of Secrets was last opened. A Valentine's Day disaster ends up revealing the diary's secrets, and Harry learns who opened the Chamber last time. We make a number of references to outside sources and popular culture, which are listed below: - [Buster's Breathless](https://pbskids.org/arthur/health/asthma/episode.html), an episode of Arthur - Philoctetes, a character in Disney's *Hercules* (1997) - Gimli, a character in *The Lord of the Rings* - [Armando Dippet](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/armando-dippet/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon - [Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_(name)) (name) on Wikipedia - "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare - The [Revealing Charm](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Revealing_Charm) on the Harry Potter Wiki Our Spell of the Week is Aparecium, which Hermione uses on the diary in attempt to reveal its secrets.