evil females/Rita Skeeter and where is James's family?

[Anita Sathe]

No: HPFGUIDX 57835

hi list,
 
 
Ersatz Harry wrote:
> > >
(5) With the exception of Rita Skeeter, all of the significant 
malevolent (or malevolent-seeming) characters that I can think of are 
male.  I offer up the categories and lists below, but cut me some
slack on whether individual characters are truly good or bad.
<snip>
Good Females: Hermione, Minerva, Molly, Lily, Ginny (not quite major)
Bad Females: Rita (Narcissa is certainly not yet a major character)
Fairly Useless Females:  Sibyll
I would certainly love to hear comments about the distinct lack (so 
far) of nasty female characters.
> > > 

How come you all forgot to put Petunia in the evil females list? Treating a child the way she did (and the child being our beloved Harry) I think she should top the list.
I mean, what kind of woman starves, bullies, orders-about an 11 year old, never takes him to the zoo, amongst committing countless other atrocities I'm sure...Its quite heart breaking.
Okay, she hated Lily but he's just a kid (who doesn't even know who he really is)...give him a break. 
I am really curious to know what Dumbledore wrote in the letter to the Dursleys. Apart from Petunia being bitter over Lily being the family favourite, maybe there was something else in the letter that causes the Dursleys to be so mean to Harry? 
I think mistreating a child is the worst kind of evil so she should be on the list. But maybe the Dursleys actually turn a new leaf sometime later. Thats no excuse to treat Harry the way they did but can't help wondering..they're  the only family he has that we know of.
 
Which brings me to another question that often strikes me:
Where is James's family? I'm assuming he had no siblings because after the Potters died, maybe D-dore would have handed Harry over to James' family. Who were James parents? If we interpret Harry's drawing out Godric G's sword as having Gryffindor blood in him (As opposed to being a Gryffindor at heart) then the Gryffindor connection must come from James's side right? (As Lily's parents are muggles)

Any thoughts, anyone?..oh and sorry if this has been discussed before, I'm quite new here.
 
 
Darrin wrote:
>Oh, I hate Rita too. In fact, I think I hate her more than I hate any 
>Slyth. 
>You see, I'm a newspaper reporter, and I absolutely despise Rita. She 
>is 
>everything that is hideous about our profession.


And Rita Skeeter is of course horrible, the worst kind of journalist I can think of.
I was thrilled when Hermione got her! If she'd have stepped on her...wow...thats murder..
I think Hermione should do something like expose all her lies, tell the truth
behind her "quotes" and everything..And Rita gets arrested for libel..thrown in Azkaban..ooh..
I think I'm drifting.
I know you can't really stop the papparazzi, so it's best to ignore them
but this woman is capable of doing a lot of damage, right?
Wonder what Rita is going to do when she gets out of captivity...it could get ugly.
 
-Anita, like Andrea, waiting for the sorting hat's new tricks!


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