The Secret Diary & it's Master
written by Shakira Marvolo Riddle
"The diary. My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted… I grew stronger and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets." - The Diary Of Voldemort
Last Updated
05/31/21
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Behind the Scenes
Chapter 5
he diary was originally purchased from a Muggle Shop on Vauxhall Road in London.
Considering Draco Malfoy's reaction to finding the diary with Harry, Lucius apparently never showed the diary to his son.
That Horcrux revealed to Harry Potter that Lord Voldemort is only an alias; his true name was Tom Marvolo Riddle.
In an interview with J. K. Rowling, she stated that: "My sister used to commit her innermost thoughts to her diary. Her great fear was that someone would read it. That's how the idea came to me of a diary that is itself against you. You would be confiding everything to pages that aren't inanimate."
J. K. Rowling has also stated: "Now, the diary to me is a very scary object, a really, really frightening object. This manipulative little book, the temptation particularly for a young girl to pour out her heart to a diary, which is never something I was prone to, but my sister was. The power of something that answers you back, and at the time that I wrote that I'd never been in an Internet chat room. But I've since thought "Well it's very similar." Just typing your deepest thoughts into the ether and getting answers back, and you don't know who is answering you. And so that was always a very scary image to me, in the book, and I thought it worked very well in the film. You could understand when he started writing to see these things coming back to him, and the power of that, that secret friend in your pocket."
In the Second Book and Video Game Adaptation of it, Harry stuffed the diary in his sock. In the Film Adaptation, Harry put the sock in the diary.
In the book and film versions of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry destroyed the diary with the Basilisk's Fang. In the Game Boy Color version of the game, Harry stabbed it with Godric Gryffindor's Sword. In the PC and PS2 version of the game, the Basilisk landed on the diary.
In the book, Harry Potter only destroyed the diary with the Basilisk fang after he was healed by Fawkes. In the film adaptation, Harry destroyed the diary with the fang before he was healed. In addition, the book only mentioned that Riddle's memory writhed and then faded away after the diary was destroyed, while in the film, it was shown that Riddle's memory's chest cavity ripped open with light, then destroyed his eyes and caused damage to his face, before eventually caused gaping holes throughout his body upon exploding. Lastly, Harry Potter only stabbed the diary once in the book, while in the film, he stabbed the diary three times, two being in two different sections of the book, and the last from the outside.
According to Dumbledore, Voldemort tended to use extremely valuable trophies or sentimentally important artefacts to create his Horcruxes, and that the reason for this diary was chosen was due to it proving him to be the Heir of Slytherin. Otherwise, the fact that the diary was a common artefact made it very ironic to be considered valuable in Voldemort's eyes, especially when it was manufactured by his hated enemies: Muggles.
The diary was the only of Voldemort's artificial Horcruxes that he acquired legally.
This diary was used as a weapon, to unleash the Basilisk once again in Hogwarts, rather than keeping the portion of the soul safe, which was what Horcruxes were meant for. It shared this attribute with a fellow Horcrux of Voldemort, Nagini, who was sent on missions from time to time.
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, a Year 2 level had the same name as the book.
The Noble Collection released a replica of the diary.[7]
The diary was Bonnie Wright's favourite prop from the films.[8]
At the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) the diary had a small hole on the front of it and a dent coming out of the back from the Basilisk fang, but in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film), when Dumbledore showed it to Harry again, it was shown to have a much larger and completely different-sized hole, which created a potential consistency error. The first of two possibilities was that the venom ate away at the diary over time, and caused the hole to widen. The second was that the filmmakers knowingly or unknowingly made a mistake.
In the original script for the film of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ginny stated that she hid the diary in the Room of Hidden Things, which she learned about from Fred and George Weasley, and said that she wished that she had just left it there. Even if this line had been included in the final film, however, it cannot be considered canon, as in the books Fred and George Weasley only knew of the room as a Broom-cupboard they once hid in and were never aware that it could be used at any time until the revelation of the room and Dumbledore's Army's use of it in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.[9]
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Ginny Weasley played with the book and ignored Harry by hitting him in the ribs.
Interestingly, the book could be compared to Snape's Potions Book. Both were used by their respective owners as an outlet to use Dark Magic: Tom Riddle used his diary to create his first Horcrux, while Snape used his textbook to create original magic. Both books were used by other people without the knowledge of the owner's true identity until later. This further highlighted the personal similarities between Riddle and Snape. Whether this was intentional on Rowling's part or merely a coincidence was unknown. It was because of Ginny's experience with the diary that made her resent Harry's choice of following Snape's textbook instructions.
In a deleted scene from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lucius Malfoy sells a box full of dark artefacts to Mr Borgin. Borgin is particularly intrigued by one item (which is never shown on screen), and Lucius informs him that the item is not for sale. It is speculated by fans that this item was the diary, which Lucius later planted on Ginny Weasley.
Considering Draco Malfoy's reaction to finding the diary with Harry, Lucius apparently never showed the diary to his son.
That Horcrux revealed to Harry Potter that Lord Voldemort is only an alias; his true name was Tom Marvolo Riddle.
In an interview with J. K. Rowling, she stated that: "My sister used to commit her innermost thoughts to her diary. Her great fear was that someone would read it. That's how the idea came to me of a diary that is itself against you. You would be confiding everything to pages that aren't inanimate."
J. K. Rowling has also stated: "Now, the diary to me is a very scary object, a really, really frightening object. This manipulative little book, the temptation particularly for a young girl to pour out her heart to a diary, which is never something I was prone to, but my sister was. The power of something that answers you back, and at the time that I wrote that I'd never been in an Internet chat room. But I've since thought "Well it's very similar." Just typing your deepest thoughts into the ether and getting answers back, and you don't know who is answering you. And so that was always a very scary image to me, in the book, and I thought it worked very well in the film. You could understand when he started writing to see these things coming back to him, and the power of that, that secret friend in your pocket."
In the Second Book and Video Game Adaptation of it, Harry stuffed the diary in his sock. In the Film Adaptation, Harry put the sock in the diary.
In the book and film versions of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry destroyed the diary with the Basilisk's Fang. In the Game Boy Color version of the game, Harry stabbed it with Godric Gryffindor's Sword. In the PC and PS2 version of the game, the Basilisk landed on the diary.
In the book, Harry Potter only destroyed the diary with the Basilisk fang after he was healed by Fawkes. In the film adaptation, Harry destroyed the diary with the fang before he was healed. In addition, the book only mentioned that Riddle's memory writhed and then faded away after the diary was destroyed, while in the film, it was shown that Riddle's memory's chest cavity ripped open with light, then destroyed his eyes and caused damage to his face, before eventually caused gaping holes throughout his body upon exploding. Lastly, Harry Potter only stabbed the diary once in the book, while in the film, he stabbed the diary three times, two being in two different sections of the book, and the last from the outside.
According to Dumbledore, Voldemort tended to use extremely valuable trophies or sentimentally important artefacts to create his Horcruxes, and that the reason for this diary was chosen was due to it proving him to be the Heir of Slytherin. Otherwise, the fact that the diary was a common artefact made it very ironic to be considered valuable in Voldemort's eyes, especially when it was manufactured by his hated enemies: Muggles.
The diary was the only of Voldemort's artificial Horcruxes that he acquired legally.
This diary was used as a weapon, to unleash the Basilisk once again in Hogwarts, rather than keeping the portion of the soul safe, which was what Horcruxes were meant for. It shared this attribute with a fellow Horcrux of Voldemort, Nagini, who was sent on missions from time to time.
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, a Year 2 level had the same name as the book.
The Noble Collection released a replica of the diary.[7]
The diary was Bonnie Wright's favourite prop from the films.[8]
At the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) the diary had a small hole on the front of it and a dent coming out of the back from the Basilisk fang, but in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film), when Dumbledore showed it to Harry again, it was shown to have a much larger and completely different-sized hole, which created a potential consistency error. The first of two possibilities was that the venom ate away at the diary over time, and caused the hole to widen. The second was that the filmmakers knowingly or unknowingly made a mistake.
In the original script for the film of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ginny stated that she hid the diary in the Room of Hidden Things, which she learned about from Fred and George Weasley, and said that she wished that she had just left it there. Even if this line had been included in the final film, however, it cannot be considered canon, as in the books Fred and George Weasley only knew of the room as a Broom-cupboard they once hid in and were never aware that it could be used at any time until the revelation of the room and Dumbledore's Army's use of it in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.[9]
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Ginny Weasley played with the book and ignored Harry by hitting him in the ribs.
Interestingly, the book could be compared to Snape's Potions Book. Both were used by their respective owners as an outlet to use Dark Magic: Tom Riddle used his diary to create his first Horcrux, while Snape used his textbook to create original magic. Both books were used by other people without the knowledge of the owner's true identity until later. This further highlighted the personal similarities between Riddle and Snape. Whether this was intentional on Rowling's part or merely a coincidence was unknown. It was because of Ginny's experience with the diary that made her resent Harry's choice of following Snape's textbook instructions.
In a deleted scene from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lucius Malfoy sells a box full of dark artefacts to Mr Borgin. Borgin is particularly intrigued by one item (which is never shown on screen), and Lucius informs him that the item is not for sale. It is speculated by fans that this item was the diary, which Lucius later planted on Ginny Weasley.
