![]() Until the first of September 2007 when Albus Dumbledore was featured as the Wizard of the Month on JK Rowling’s old official website we also had the unanswered question of just what time frame all of this backstory was taking place in. Because it is obvious that she does, but it is unclear as to where, or how (or why) Second: there is Albus’s fatal brush with wizarding Supremacist politics.Īnd, third: where does Bathilda Bagshott fit into it. At least three major ones as far as I can make out.įirst: there is the question of just what happened to Ariana. I can live with that.īut in any case we’ve got some problems here. Or maybe she deliberately wants us to do the heavy lifting ourselves. Maybe backstories just aren’t Rowling’s forte. Or, for that matter, the Potter backstory, or the Snape backstory. You will just have to excuse me for pointing out that I do not find the official Dumbledore backstory significantly more complete or any more convincing than the official Riddle backstory. We now have the “official” Dumbledore backstory. Most of it was in response from prompts made by the others, however. The following has been reworked from my own contributions to this exchange. Much of the following was explored over the course of a 4-way e-mail exchange with the LiveJournalists Professor_Mum, Swythyv, and beta–elf, over August and early September, 2007. She can be truly vile, and is greatly disliked by those in the wizarding community who are on the side of truth and justice.Trying to make the Potterverse make sense since 2003! Note: She doesn't care who her writing harms, what reputations she destroys, what problems her accusations lead to, and doesn't fear repercussions in the slightest. ![]() She twists facts or more often than not ignores then completely when writing her works, or reports them accurately and truthfully if the information is risque and damning, not meant to be seen by the public eye. She has blatantly stated she doesn't care about the truth, instead choosing to write what makes headlines or readers may want to read about more. Rita Skeeter is attention hungry and craves fame and notoriety, and doesn't care how she achieves any of this. ~ Rita after being confronted by Hermione after her slanderous and dishonouring article on Rubeus Hagrid. Tweedy in Chicken Run, Anna Conda in A Fox's Tale and Emily Brent in the 2015 miniseries of And Then There Were None. In the films, she was portrayed by Miranda Richardson, who also portrayed Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II, Mab in Merlin, the Queen of Hearts in the 1999 TV film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, Mrs. Not even those underage are safe from her scandalous reports, writing provocative articles about both Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. Rita has personally expressed she isn't interested in writing the truth, but instead what people were more likely to want to read. Using her animal form of a beetle, she is able to eavesdrop on private conversations without anyone knowing she's there, giving her access to private information that isn't meant to be made public and using that to write her gossip tabloids. A notorious journalist specializing in slander and defamation, Rita is actually a legitimate criminal (albeit unknown) due to the fact that she is an unregistered Animagus, which is illegal. Rita Skeeter is a supporting antagonist in the Harry Potter franchise. ~ Rita to Harry, Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum. So, who's feeling up to sharing? Shall we start with the youngest? Lovely. What quirks lurk beneath those rosy cheeks? What mysteries do the muscles mask? Does courage lie beneath those curls? In short, what makes a champion tick? Me, myself and I want to know. But, of course, you know that, don't you? It's you we don't know. What a charismatic quartet ! Hello, I'm Rita Skeeter. ~ Rita with Harry while having an interview with him in a cupbroad. Rita : Well you should feel right at home, then. ~ Rita to Hermionie after being called out for ruining Hagrid's career. I know things about Ludo Bagman that would make your hair curl, not that it needs it.
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