Fave Characters

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19334

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Barbara Purdom <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> I think for what it's worth that my favorite character
> as far as humor is concerned is Gilderoy Lockhart. 
> Every scene he was in was so funny I was splitting my
> sides at the same time I was trying to read to my kids
> (and they were literally rolling around laughing--it
> made it hard to get them to settle down at bedtime,
> frankly).  Rita Skeeter is a close second for humor,
> but Lockhart wins the LOL prize hands down.  (Of
> course we're laughing at him, not with him.) Lockhart
> was an inspired creation, and I couldn't help but
> wonder whether her encounters with some Fleet Street
> reporters after JKR became quite famous were
> responsible for the creation of Rita.

JKR told BBC's _Desert Island Discs_ that Rita was originally
going to be in the Leaky Cauldron scene in PS[SS], and did realise,
later on, how Rita's debut in GOF would look.  But what the heck.