![]() ![]() Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images/Warner Bros. Michael Gambon played Albus Dumbledore in six "Harry Potter" movies.ĭavid M. But the fact is, Rita was planned all along.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. For the first time ever, my pen metaphorically hesitated over writing her, because I thought, everyone will think this is my response to what's happened to me. So I pulled Rita from Book One and planned her entrance for Book Four and I was really looking forward to Rita coming in Book Four. And then I thought, as I looked at the plot overall, I thought, that's not really where she fits best, she fits best in Four when Harry's supposed to come to terms with his fame. She wasn't called Rita then but she was a woman. I tried to put Rita in Philosopher's Stone - you know when Harry walks into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time and everyone says, "Mr Potter you're back!", I wanted to put a journalist in there. Well I'll tell you the truth but I doubt very much that anyone's going to want to hear this. There's a character in this book, Rita how true is this a depiction of your relations with the press? Rowling on the character of Rita Skeeter: She was originally to appear in the Leaky Cauldron when Harry first visited, but Rowling decided that Skeeter would better appear in book four as Harry became aware of his fame (JKR). ![]() Rowling called this character Bridget before settling on the name Rita. Man or Monster? The TRUTH About Newt Scamander (FB).Dumbledore’s Army: The Dark Side of the Demob (Pm).Biography of Harry (title unknown) (BLC).The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore ( DH2).Armando Dippet: Master or Moron ( DH13).Hair: blonde, set in elaborate and curiously rigid curls ( GF18) after her long period of unemployment, she let it hang lank and unkempt instead ( OP25).įace: heavy-jawed, heavily penciled eyebrows, jeweled spectacles (false jewels), three gold teeth ( GF18).įingernails: long and painted red ( GF18).Ĭarries: crocodile-skin handbag holding parchment and an acid-green Quick-Quotes Quill ( GF18). She also wrote quite a nasty follow-up article about Harry Potter and the DA (Pm). In 2014, she and Ginny Weasley clashed while reporting at the final of the Quidditch World Cup in Patagonia. It should fit nicely on the shelf next to an earlier book of hers, Armando Dippet: Master or Moron ( DH13). The name of the book is The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore ( DH2). Skeeter stole photographs from Bagshot as well, and then wrote the story which sensationalized everything and implied that Dumbledore had dabbled in the Dark Arts and contributed to the death of his sister. She used Veritaserum to get old Bathilda Bagshot to tell her about Dumbledore’s childhood ( DH18). The story turned the tide of public opinion toward Harry.Īfter Dumbledore’s death, Skeeter wrote a 900-page tell-all biography of the Headmaster in just a few weeks. Because the official Ministry line was that Harry was delusional, Hermione put the interview into an alternative newspaper, the Quibbler ( OP25). It was a year later that Hermione called on Skeeter to write something, this time an exposé on Harry’s proof that Voldemort was alive again and actively seeking power. However, she met her match in Hermione, who discovered that she was an unregistered Animagus (she can turn into a beetle) and used that information to blackmail Skeeter into not writing anything for a year ( GF37). Rita was a reporter at the Death Eater trials after the first fall of the Dark Lord and has filled the pages of the Daily Prophet with her snide and nasty words she once called Dumbledore an “obsolete dingbat.” She covered the Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts, concentrating her efforts on digging up the dirt on Harry. She uses a Quick-Quotes Quill to write in flowery prose filled with innuendos and veiled accusations ( GF18). Rita Skeeter is a reporter for the Daily Prophet who is known for her rubbishy exposés of well-known wizards. ![]()
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