Idle musings on Book Six

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 27780

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., djtarb at a... wrote:
> > ** The first truly evil female character makes her debut
> 
> This could be true.  We just may not kow yet that she is evil (if 
> she is Fleur or Madame).  Or it could be Rita Skeeter, who is 
> certainly awful and may indeed be evil.
 
Quite right, Diane!  I had completely forgotten about Rita Skeeter.  
Madame Maxime seems unlikely for evildoing, however.  I think JKR is 
trying to redeem giants' (and half-giants') images, after all.  But 
Rita is a piece of work!  I didn't associate her with the "evil 
female character" because I think of her as being very similar to 
Gilderoy Lockhart; a character who is amusing-but-not-likable (you'd 
slit your wrists before agreeing to go into a room with them) and who 
does things that are bad/wrong, but not really serving The Powers Of 
Evil so much as themselves.  OTOH, Rita does collude with Malfoy to 
put things in the Daily Prophet and Witch Weekly which serve to make 
life difficult for Harry, Hermione, Hagrid, i.e. The Good Guys, so 
one COULD call her "evil," I suppose.  I usually use a different 
adjective to describe members of the press who have misquoted me or 
members of my family, but that's another story. ;)

--Barb