[HPforGrownups] Hermione can tie her own shoelaces (Re: Bad stuff for Hermione)

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 54148

Kenney:
I believe that since Rita Skeeter was a character created exclusively 
for GOF, we can speculate that her character was not around at the 
time Hermione's fate was decided (in a time before anyone knew what 
a 'Muggle' was- besides those of us who read Dahl).
 
Me:
But Rita /wasn't/ created exclusively for GoF:

"I tried to put Rita first in Philosopher's Stone. When Harry walked into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time and everyone said - Oh Mr Potter you're back - I wanted to put a journalist in there - she wasn't called Rita then though but she was a woman."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2353000/2353639.stm

Also, making Hermione's life a living hell is a lot different than having a life-changing turn of events in her fate. Rita could cause some dirty damage without harming Hermione's more set-in-stone destiny set up by Rowling.

--Taryn

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