Idle musings on Book Six

[Kristen]

No: HPFGUIDX 27785

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Barb" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

What about the woman "with thick, shining dark hair and heavily 
hooded eyes" we meet in "The Pensieve" chapter of GoF?  I think most 
agree that she is the Mrs. Lestrange referred to in "The Death 
Eaters."  I suspect we'll see more of her--though her brief 
appearance in GoF is really more of a cameo than a "debut."