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'''Rita Skeeter''' (born c. ]) is a ] from the '']'' series. She's a somewhat stereotypical ], who specializes in ]. Going to extreme lengths for a good story, she proved herself a nuisance to ] and his friends throughout '']''. |
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Rita Skeeter is played by ] in ] of the fourth novel, released in ]. |
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==History== |
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Rita Skeeter's attempts at stirring up controversy were first mentioned in ] and included instances that occurred before Harry returned to Hogwarts for his fourth year. When Rita wrote about the ] appearing at the ] World Cup, she said that there were rumours that several bodies had been removed from the forest an hour after the attack, thus creating a previously non-existent rumour. She also reported on ]'s trial (many years previous to when the story takes place), as witnessed by Harry in Dumbledore's ]. Dumbledore also mentions that she referred to him as an "obsolete dingbat" in a piece about the International Confederation of Wizards. |
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==''The Goblet of Fire''== |
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Harry first encountered Rita when she was planning to write an article about the ] in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''. He didn't give her the kind of answers she wanted in the interview (which took place, oddly enough, in a broom cupboard). |
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Her article about the tournament turned out to be mostly about Harry. A picture of Harry's face took up the front page, and she replaced Harry's answers in her interview with those of her own invention, or rather, those of her magic quill's. The two foreign Triwizard champions' names (misspelled) were squeezed in at the end of the article, and ] (the other ] champion) wasn't mentioned at all. |
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She made life very hard for Harry, and ] banned her from the grounds. Rita interviewed ], but rather than talking to him about his creatures, which he had been led to believe she would be interested in, she just wanted information about Harry. Hagrid commented after the interview that she seemed disappointed when he said that he'd never had to tell Harry off. |
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====Animagus form==== |
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Rita Skeeter, who was, in fact, an unregistered ] who could turn into a ], decided to get revenge on Hagrid by coming to Hogwarts during the Yule Ball, and spying on him while transformed into a beetle. She overheard Hagrid tell ] that he was half-giant, and printed a story about it, which prompted several letters from parents questioning the safety of allowing him to teach, due to the ferocious nature of giants. With the addition of ]'s ] incident, she made it seem as though Hagrid was dangerous -- so much so that Hagrid became severely depressed and nearly resigned. |
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When she encountered Harry, ] and ] in ], Hermione insulted her; and, predictably, Skeeter wrote a horrible story about Hermione, making her out to be an ugly but extremely intelligent witch who used illegal love potions to satisfy her taste for celebrity wizards, such as Harry Potter and her Yule Ball date, international ] star and ] Triwizard Champion ]. |
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Rita's last defaming article stated that Harry was "disturbed and dangerous", using comments made about him by ] and Malfoy's cronies (who, Hermione states, knew the secret of Skeeters animagical form: she and Harry see Malfoy talking to his hand, and Hermione later claims that he was holding Skeeter in her beetle form in his hand). She also cited Harry's ability to speak ] (the ability to speak with ]), and pains in the scar given to him by ], as additional material for her article. This was later used for the base of the ]'s ] against Harry. |
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Since Rita had defamed her and because of her treatment of her friends (particularly Hagrid), Hermione had been bent on finding out how Rita was spying on private conversations. She found out, and trapped her (as a beetle) in a jar, just as Dumbledore was reforming the ], thereby preventing her from revealing the Order existence to the wizarding public and the Ministry. |
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Hermione made Rita swear to "keep her quill to herself for a full year" or she would tell the authorities she was an unregistered ] and Rita would be sent to Azkaban. |
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==''The Order of the Phoenix''== |
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About a year later (in '']''), Hermione forced her to interview Harry about ] returning and to submit the story to '']''. |
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Until then, almost nobody in the general wizarding public believed that Voldemort had risen again, due to, ironically enough, the smear campaign started by Rita herself. The article helped Harry and his friends greatly; particularly because ] banned it from Hogwarts, in an attempt to stop the information in the article from spreading. But this attempt backfired; because all the students at Hogwarts became desperate to read it, to see why it was banned. |
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==''The Half-Blood Prince''== |
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At the end of '']'', Skeeter is spotted amongst the mourners, making notes at Dumbledore's funeral. Her role in the book was minor. |
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==''Book Seven'' (currently untitled)== |
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At the ] in 2004, JK Rowling revealed that there is more to come on Rita. |
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==Behind the Name== |
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"Skeeter" is ] for ], which some find comparable to Rita Skeeter's annoying nature. |
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==Character Background== |
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] considered putting Rita, who was then called Bridget, in ] for the scene where Harry enters the Leaky Cauldron on his way to ]. Rowling cut the character and decided to move her to the fourth book. She said part of the reason for this was to fill the role of a character named Mafalda who was cut out (see ]). |
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However, Rowling notes she was reluctant to write the character when the time came, fearing people would believe it to be a response to her own fame. However, she did write the character and has noted that meeting with real journalists did make it more fun. |
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