![]() ![]() When she encountered Harry, Ron and Hermione in Hogsmeade, 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 boyfriend, international Quidditch star and Durmstrang Triwizard Champion Viktor Krum. With the addition of Malfoy's hippogriff incident, she made it seem as though Hagrid were dangerous - so much so that Hagrid became severely depressed and nearly resigned. She overheard Hagrid tell Madame Maxime that he was half-giant, and printed a story about it, which made him extremely unpopular, due to the well-documented ferocious nature of giants. Rita Skeeter, who was, in fact, an unregistered Animagus who could turn into a beetle, decided to get revenge on Hagrid by coming to Hogwarts during the Yule Ball, and spying on him while transformed into a beetle. Hagrid commented after the interview that she seemed disappointed when he said that he'd never had to tell Harry off. Rita interviewed Hagrid, 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. Her article made life very hard for Harry, and Dumbledore banned her from the grounds. ![]() The other Triwizard champions' names (misspelled) were squeezed in at the end of the article, and Cedric Diggory (the other Hogwarts champion) wasn't mentioned at all. She stretched facts to make Harry seem like a tragic hero. A picture of Harry's face took up the front page, and she replaced Harry's answer in her interview with those of her own invention, making it seem that he wanted attention. Her article about the tournament turned out to be mostly about Harry. She then secretly interviewed several people about Harry. When they took pictures for the article she asked for separate pictures of all the champions. He didn't give her the kind of answers she wanted in the interview (which took place, oddly enough, in a broom cupboard). Harry first encountered Rita when she was planning to write an article about the Triwizard Tournament, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She reported on Ludo Bagman's trial (many years previous to when the story takes place) when he was accused of being a Death Eater. When she wrote about the Dark Mark appearing at the Quidditch World Cup, she said that there were rumours that numerous bodies had been removed from the forest (thus creating a rumour which had not existed before, and was blatantly untrue). Once, Rita Skeeter referred to Albus Dumbledore as an "obsolete dingbat". ![]() Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. ![]()
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