Truth, SHIPs, and Rita Skeeter (was Re: SHIPping Attitudes)

[Susan Fox-Davis]

No: HPFGUIDX 55985

Kia writes:

<<There was never any kind of apology or statement from either
Rita or The Daily Prophet that the articles were not exactly
journalism at its best.>>

As someone in journalism biz, that bothers me no little.
Perhaps the Daily Prophet is the Wizarding World's
"NY Post", while the more sedate "NY Times" analogue
has not yet been seen in the HP Canon.
"All the news that fits, we print." <grin>

Just a bit of tangental linguistics:  remember that "paparazzi"
is the Italian term for annoying buzzing insects, like, say, skeeters.
<smile>

<<I worry about Hermione a lot. In the inter-trio ship debates I
sometimes wonder what we all will do, if Hermione is pushing
up the daisies by the end of Book Six. Although as a girl there is
a whole lot more nastiness involved in killing her. (To quote a
Luc Besson movie - "No women. No children. That's the rules.")>>

Those rules don't seem to apply to the Death Eaters, who played
marionettes with the muggle proprietor of the campground and his
wife and child after the Quidditch World Cup.  Voldemort didn't
exactly sanction that action, but he certainly has nothing stopping
him from killing women and children, viz. the whole Potter family.
Although he still has not managed to kill Harry after multiple
attempts it wasn't through any issue of ethics.

Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net