Rita Skeeter, was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Things I don't understand

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48657

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Carol Bainbridge <kaityf at j...>
wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> >Let's weigh the situation-
> >
> >The greatest group of stories she could ever imagine vs. 
> being found out as an animagi.
> >...
> >I stand firmly by what I said before -
> >
> >"EXPECT BIG TROUBLE FROM RITA IN THE NEXT BOOK. Disasterous 
> >trouble." Deadly serious trouble.
> >
> >bboy_mn

> Carol:
> 
> I completely agree that we haven't seen the end of Rita and her
> Quick-Quote Quills.  However, I'm not so sure that she will make 
> an appearance in book  5.  
> ...edited...
> Rita hasn't agreed to remain silent forever.  She is supposed to
> keep quiet for a year.  That makes me suspect that we will see her 
> back in book  6.
> ...edited...
> 
> Carol


bboy_mn respond:

I like that idea. Personally, I don't think she can stay quiet that
long but Hermione she was making Rita stay silent for a year to see if
it would keep her from making up horrible lies about people. Although,
Hermione never mentions anything about forbiding her to speak about
what she heard in the hospital. Maybe Hermione was so fixated on all
the things that Rita had already done that the hospital room never
occurred to her.

But this story is so fantastic that it doesn't need any lies to make
it better. Just when things are heating up in the new Voldemort war,
Rita breaks loose with her story casting doubt on Dumbledore, putting
Snape and Sirius at risk, tarnishing the image of our hero, and other
nasty stuff. 

I'm not sure I agree, but it's a great story, and if I was you, I'd
stick to it.

bboy_mn