9/10/2023 0 Comments Rita skeeter backstory![]() ![]() Rita puts the Boy Who Lived front and centre. The hackette is smarter and better than lowest common denominator. In the ‘GoF’ chapter “The Weighing of the Wands”, the blokey photographer focuses on Fleur. Ron Weasley's final line in the entire series? "I'm extremely famous." Rita claims that Hermione has a "taste for famous wizards". In the same book Hermione goes from “plain but ambitious girl” to “stunningly pretty” – except in Rita Skeeter’s articles, where the transformation happens in reverse. And before ‘GoF’ was published half the readership thought Harry and Hermione were a couple-in-waiting. Ginny christens her pygmy puff Arnold, the name Rita gives Mr Weasley in print. Bill’s mother agrees that his hair is too long, the pillock. Were it not for the Triwizard Tournament and the distraction of her grudge match with Hermione, Rita would uncover the Dark Lord's plot!Įven Rita’s harsher pearls have wisdom. Rita pokes the Ministry about Bertha Jorkins’ disappearance and the ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody break-in: vital stages in Voldemort's plan to return. The body turns out to have been Barty Crouch Jr, FakeMoody-in-embryo. In ‘GoF’, Rita's World Cup newspaper story airs the rumour that bodies were removed from the woods. JKR said Rita’s biography of Harry Potter would be “one quarter truth to three quarters rubbish.” But three parts truth to one part rubbish is more on the nose. Rita paints in broad brush strokes and makes minor mistakes in her rush to publish, but she has a good nose for a story and she runs ahead of the pack. lax security… Dark wizards running unchecked… national disgrace…” is an accurate depiction of the Death Eaters' after-party at the Quidditch World Cup. The Ministry of Magic fully deserves the poison in her pen. When Rita targets the powerful, she is a force to be reckoned with. And she writes a 900-page biography of Dumbledore in just a few weeks, which is mostly truthful if not the whole story. Rita probably invented the Quick Quotes Quill. Becoming an Animagus – in secret – is no stroll down a country lane. Little Rita grew up in an environment plagued by deceit, and learned secrecy at mummy's or daddy’s knee. To colourize the biography, best guess: wizard or witch parent hid the secret of their magic from the Muggle spouse. Indeed, the prosaic wardrobe and cuisine suggest a Muggle parent. Her handbag is not dragonskin but crocodile. ![]() Rita’s glasses glimmer with rhinestones in a world where diamonds and rubies are used to measure a school's House points. Her house is described in the Daily Prophet as “cosy”, the same word Rita herself uses to describe a broom cupboard. When forced out of work, she deteriorates visibly. Rita Skeeter, despite her smarts, is not wealthy. – via the Quick Quotes Quill, ‘Goblet of Fire’ “Attractive blonde Rita Skeeter, forty-three, whose savage quill has punctured many inflated reputations…” But, like Professor Trelawney’s fortune-telling, Rita’s journalism can be more accurate than it first appears. Both have special quills that do not require ink. Like Umbridge, Rita is an unattractive woman who overdoes the feminine styling. Both Rita and Dolores act nice on the surface and have their own agendas. Harry chimes in: “That Skeeter cow That – woman.”īooks Three, Four and Five each introduce an unreliable female character as a presence at Hogwarts school: Sybill Trelawney, Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge. The first thing anyone says about her is “That woman” – the speaker is Percy Weasley: “That woman’s got it in for the Ministry.” Sirius refers to her as: “That Skeeter woman.” At the Yule Ball, Percy again, unwittingly perceptive: “That revolting Skeeter woman buzzing around.” Hermione dubs her “That horrible woman” and, later the same chapter, “You horrible woman” and “That foul Skeeter woman”. Rita is an ambitious witch in a man’s wizard’s world. In-book criticism of Rita Skeeter cleaves to her gender. Her anti-Harry stories in the latter half of ‘GoF’ set the tone for the general media abuse aimed at him in ‘Order of the Phoenix’. Introduced in 'Goblet of Fire', she is an opinion leader, an influencer. Rita Skeeter is a talented journalist who uses her gifts not for good or evil but for commercial gain: to profit the Prophet. ![]()
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