2.13 The Very Secret Diary

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, an episode of Arthur Philoctetes, a character in Disney's Hercules (1997) Gimli, a character in The Lord of the Rings Armando Dippet on the Harry Potter Lexicon Thomas (name) on Wikipedia "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare The 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.