TBAY: /Rita. .

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55952

"derannimer" :
> 
> "Well, it just seems to me that she's going to wind up writing the 
> truth about Voldemort's return for Dumbledore in the next book."
> 
> "*What?!*"
> 
> "Well," says Derannimer defensively, "*someone's* got to, because 
the 
> Daily Prophet's sure not gonna. And Rita is the only journalist we 
> really know. And Hermione could blackmail her into it. And we know 
> that Rita dislikes the Ministry. And we can guess, from the OOP 
> summary, that Ministry plotlines figure heavily in OOP. And Harry 
> said of Fudge: 'He'll never keep Rita quiet. Not on a story like 
> this,' so it's even got *fore-shadowing.*" 
> 
> "*And,*" she adds, after a moment's thought. "It would be a *great* 
> boost for her career. 'Disgraced ex-Minister of Magic, Cornelius 
> Fudge.' Snappy start to a sentence, yes?"

Rita Skeeter has *two* great stories! The return of Lord Voldemort 
AND the innosence of Sirius Black. She will do anything for a good 
story - spy on them as a bug if nothing else works...
She *would* write of Sirius Black being innocent - that Voldemort has 
returned - in a series of articles...

"Harry Potter's lunacy a warning from his scar?"
"You-know-who has returned!"
"Peter Pettigrew seen alive..."
"Ministry threw an innocent man to Azkaban..."

Rita Skeeter is one who'll do anything for a story; she'd most 
definately go for it - with or without co-operation. I think she is 
one of the neutrals! Now, 15-year old Harry comes to see that things 
aren't black&white, Rita Skeeter is most definately in the grey area. 
She's not Voldemort nor DE - but she isn't in the goodie-league 
either. She's just obsessed with her ambition of writing the 
greatest, most scandalous and amasing story ever...

-- Finwitch