Snape/Rita Skeeter connection?

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No: HPFGUIDX 41963

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Lilac <lilac_bearry at y...> wrote:
> 
> I just re-read GoF (US version) and three things caught my eye...
> 2. pg 431:  Hermione is telling off Rita Skeeter in the Three 
Broomsticks, and Rita replies:  "Sit down, you silly little girl, 
and don't talk about things you don't understand," said Rita Skeeter 
coldly....(re:  Ludo Bagman)
> 
> Wait, I thought.  I've heard something similar to this line 
before...aha, here it is...
> 
> PoA pg 360:  "KEEP QUIET, YOU STUPID GIRL!"  Snape shouted, 
looking suddenly quite deranged.  "DON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T 
UNDERSTAND!"  (Re:  Black's innocence)
> 
> Interesting...is this just a common put-down for girls in the 
>Potterverse?  Or, is it something that JKR heard as a "swotty" 
>little girl and brought it out again for her "younger" self -- 
>Hermione?  Or, is this just the lowest put down you can give 
>Hermione, who prides herself on being "the cleverest witch of her 
>age"?  Just thought I'd draw that comparison. 

Or maybe Rita Skeeter and Snape are the same person!  Have we ever 
seen them together?

To be slightly less hysterical, maybe they are related / close 
frinds / lovers?  Do we know how old Rita is; maybe she was in 
Slytherin with Snape?  They could have both had a professor who 
preferred a similar put-down.

Or maybe their personalities are just very, very similar, which 
explanation I like least, since I love Snape and hate Rita.

Ginny, who can't believe she is actually caught up and able to post, 
and on Harry's b-day no less!