![]() ![]() 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). ![]() I see no reason for her to directly lie about this in the second quote.Rita Skeeter is a reporter for the Daily Prophet who is known for her rubbishy exposés of well-known wizards. If Rita Skeeter was deliberately based on a real person, I imagine she'd tell us – either that Skeeter was based on a real person, or that Lockhart wasn't the only one – as she could keep that person's identity a secret. She's never revealed who Lockhart was based on, although there have been guesses in the media. The only character who is deliberately based on a real person is Gilderoy Lockhart. There was a relevant question earlier in the same interview:Īre any of your characters based on real people? Plenty of people have made guesses at who Skeeter might be based upon, but Rowling and her publishers have been consistent in saying that there was no deliberate inspiration. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. She is loathsome-morally, she’s horrible-but I can’t help admiring her toughness. ![]() However, I am not going to deny that writing Rita was a lot more fun having met a few people I had met. I didn’t realise that by the time I wrote book four I would have met quite a lot of Ritas and people would assume that I was writing Rita in response to what had happened to me, which was not in fact the truth. She was still called Bridget at the time. It really starts to weigh on him when he is exposed to the wider wizarding world so I thought that that would be the perfect place for Rita to come in. Anyway, she detained him too long in the Leaky Cauldron and I really needed to get him moving, so I thought that I would not put her there.Īs I was writing book one, I was planning the rest, and book four was supposed to be where Harry’s fame became a burden to him. For some reason she was called Bridget-I forget why. In a very early draft, Rita, a journalist, was there and she ran up to him. You know when Harry walks into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? Everyone says, “You’re back” and he realises for the first time that he is famous. This is where we learnt that Skeeter appeared in an early draft of Philosopher's Stone, and she also claims that Skeeter is not based on any real person: In an interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2004, she was asked about Skeeter's character. ![]()
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