Rita Skeeter

Character of the saga Harry Potter, written by J.K. Rowling.

The author makes some for the first time mention in Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, in chapter 10

Rita Skeeter is a witch born in 1951. She is to defer for the Gazette of the Wizard (she left this newspaper without reason in June 1994). She has a broad jaw, equipped with three gold teeth, eyebrows underlined by thick milked make-up and she carries glasses to the mountings encrusted with (false) invaluable stones. She has fair hair, capped of loops curiously rigid and after its long period of unemployment (1995-96), she let them hang, terns and neglected, around her face. Its fingers are thick and its nails make 5 cm, they are varnished in red. She has an handbag in skin of crocodile which contains parchment, candles and its Plume in Papote. It is a Animagus not declared, it can be transformed into a small beetle.

It ceases deforming only one says to him in interview and has a tooth against the Ministère of the Magic. In report, it is accompanied by a photographer named Bozo.

With the beginning of the year 1980, it was present at the lawsuit of Ludo Verpey, seen by Harry in the Pensine.

During the summer 1994, she wrote an article on the meeting of the international Confederation of the magi and wizards, in whom she qualified Dumbledore flabbergasted old of another age .

She covered, in 1994, the beginning of the Tournoi of the Three Wizards, concentrating more on defamatory articles in connection with Harry, of Hagrid and Hermione. So much so that Dumbledore will prohibit to him to give the feet to Poudlard. It have thus recourse to its gifts of animagus to infiltrate at the school, allowing him to thread everywhere to listen to the most intimate conversations.

Trapped by Hermione Granger, in June 1995, which discovered that Rita Skeeter is a animagus not declared (a beetle), she made promise in Rita more anything to write during one year if she did not want that this one reveals its secrecy.

Hermione contacted Rita Skeeter on February 14th, 1996 so that she writes to an article for the Quibbler in connection with the version of Harry concerning the return of Voldemort. This number of the Quibbler was exhausted and had to be reprinted, then the article was sold with the Gazette of the Wizard. ; Comment of Albus Dumbledore describing the articles of Rita: " Marvelously fielleux." ; J.K. Rowling in connection with the character of Rita Skeeter:

(according to an interview of Newsround, July 2000) There is a character in this book, Rita… Is it a description of your relationship with the press? Eh well, I will tell you the truth, but I really believe that nobody will want to hear that. I tried to integrate Rita in the volume 1 - you know when Harry between for the first time in the Chaudron Baveur and that everyone known as " Mr Potter, you are of return! " , I wanted to put a journalist in the corner. It was not called yet Rita, but it was a woman. And I said myself, when I looked at the intrigue in general, that it did not have really its place in this book, that it would go better in the 4th book when Harry was supposed to face its celebrity. Then I transferred Rita from the first book to the fourth, and I awaited impatiently the return of Rita. For the first time of my life, my feather hesitated (métaphoriquement speaking) to realize it, because I thought that everyone would be persuaded that it was my manner of answering what had arrived to me. But makes some, Rita was envisaged since good a long time. Did I more stick to it because of what arrived to me? … Yes, I believe that yes!

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