![]() Here’s a copy of the book hope you like it. But like Professor Trelawney’s fortune-telling, Rita’s journalism can be more exact 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 Skeeter and Dolores Umbridge act nice on the surface and have their own agendas. All trigger Hermione to unusual action: quit an entire subject, kidnap and blackmail, rebellion. 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 wizard’s world. In-book criticism of Rita Skeeter cleaves to her gender. Her anti-Harry stories in the latter half of the fourth book 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. ![]() Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Warming up the Quick Quotes Quill “Attractive blonde Rita Skeeter, forty-three, whose savage quill has punctured many inflated reputations…”
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