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== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is Peter Pettigrew, the traitorous rat-animagus from the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series. He was chosen by Harry's parents to guard the secret of their location from Lord Voldemort. Bad choice on their part.
** To be fair, Pettigrew was only chosen because everyone would naturally assume James Potter would select his brother-from-another-mother best friend, Sirius Black. Knowing that, the Potters decided to choose a less obvious Secret Keeper and Pettigrew became it. They just didn't know that Pettigrew was a Death-Eater...
** Later, Dumbledore is the Secret Keeper for the headquarters of the [[Harry Potter and
** Note that Harry, himself, doesn't have a Secret Keeper in this trope's sense, which is a key reason why he's so miserable every summer with the Dursleys (who know what he is, but won't let him speak of it). Hermione's parents, being supportive of her gifts and hence exceptions to the "no parents" rule, are her summertime Secret Keepers, which spares her from feeling as isolated while she's away from school.
* ''[[Zorro]]''{{'}}s mute butler effectively hides his secret identity, and even helps him out on more than one occasion.
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