The Alohomora! podcast began five years after the release
of the final Harry Potter book as a way to rediscover the
original magic of the novels. Almost a decade later, the
fandom - and the podcast - is bigger than ever, with more
analysis and conversations happening about the Harry Potter
story than ever before.
This second book in the new companion series will help
readers discover new ideas, connections, and secrets
embedded throughout Chamber of Secrets and explore them
in a whole new way. For each chapter of the original text,
readers will find information gathered from a multitude of
official sources, including a timeline that puts everything into
an easily envisioned context. Readers will discover helpful
information about characters, events, artifacts, and more.
Insights and analysis drawn from the hosts and guests of the
podcast starts a reader of the companion on their journey of
their own analysis.
In addition, there are explorations of popular fan theories
(both those that were popular at the novel’s time of
publication and have been disproved, and those that
continue in the fandom today). Readers will also find
connections to extra-canonical information and other
MuggleNet series books, as well as a QR code that leads to
episodes of the podcast to further the conversation.


Kat Miller, Alison Siggard and Voldemort/Tom Riddle expert Grace Candido are all revered contributors to the extraordinarily popular Alohomora! podcast. Launched in April 2012 to fill the void left in the aftermath of the final Harry Potter movie release, the podcast examines each of the Harry Potter books in turn, mining new insights and discoveries throughout, illuminating the Wizarding World for fans around the globe.