Skeeter

[mitchbailey82]

No: HPFGUIDX 45391

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Aesha Williams" <awillia2 at g...> wrote:
> Brian pondered:
> 
> > How about the presence of a convicted murderer/Azkaban
> > escapee/unregistered animagi in the Hogwarts hospital wing
> > conspiring with the Headmaster and a former Death Eater to embark
> > upon a course of action contrary to the stated wishes of the
> > Minister of Magic?  Rita Skeeter was there at the time!
> 
>     Well, I think that RS heard everything, and knows all about 
Snape being
> a death eater (well, I guess that's not news), as well as Sirius 
being both
> a trusted friend of Dumbledore *and* an unregisterd animagus, and 
heard all
> of the argument between Fudge and Dumbledore and the group's 
subsequent
> decision to mobilize against Voldemort and gain secret support in 
the
> ministry. But, this also exactly why I think the truth about Sirius 
will be
> revealed in the OoP (besides the fact that it will have been a 
secret long
> enough!) is because as soon as Rita were to be human again, she 
would break
> the story. I mean, Hermione told her she would keep her as a beetle 
in the
> jar for a year, and see if after that she could stop dragging 
people through
> the mud (obvoiusly not verbatim!). Well, once Hermy let her out, she
> wouldn't have to lie to tell all that good stuff that would just 
rock the
> wizarding world- so I think, by the time she's allowed to regain 
human form,
> the truth will already have come out 

Now me:
Actually the quote from Hermione is :

"I've told her that I'll let her out when we get back to London" so 
she's not got to stay in the jar for a year.

I agree with Brian, I think that what Rita saw/ overheard is a time 
bomb waiting to go off. I think that Rita wouldn't have taken being 
imprisoned by a school girl very well,(understatement of the year I 
think!). Now I don't think that she'll want to use it in a way to 
help Voldemorts side - its just something about the way she said to 
Hermione "I know things about Bagman that would make your hair curl" 
(or something along those lines) (Gof) that made me feel that while 
she's not a nice person she's not a Voldemort supporter either - in 
fact I got the impression from that scene that she quite detested him 
(but maybe that's just me). However she doesn't strike me as a person 
that likes weak people (just the impression I got from the whole of 
GoF no quotes here) and I'd say that Fudge is a weak person (he's 
basically just buried his head in the sand at the end of GoF) she 
hasn't shown much respect for the ministry in her articles either. So 
basically it's down to whether she wants to help Fudge out - because 
that's what she would be doing if she released these details in order 
to get one up on Hermione by hurting her friends (also theres the 
fame aspect of it too), (she'd also be helping Voldemort with his 
anti Harry/Dumbledore propaganda to)or whether she wants to keep 
quite (for whatever morals she's got and for the reasons above). If 
she does want to publish it I don't think the fact that she's an 
unregistered animagis is going to be a problem – I can she her doing 
a deal with Fudge if she does choose this road (you give me an 
animagi registration and I'll help you out with your problems 
concerning Dumbledore, Back, Harry etc).
 The basic problem is what would suit her needs the most (it seems 
that she does what's best for her) and at the moment the coins up in 
the air as to what side she will choose but I don't think with seen 
the last of her


Michelle