Rita Skeeter ( WAS: Re: Hermione's growth)

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 82567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley 
<lhuntley at f...> wrote:
Golly wrote:
Rita was not out to hurt people.  She just didn't care.  She was out
to sell papers. <snip> 
Rita hasn't a sterling character, but she's not been proven to be
deliberately malevolant either.  Just selfish.

Laura Ingalls Huntley <lhuntley at f...> wrote:
What about the article she wrote about Hermione?  That was 
*definitely* deliberate malice, spurred on my Hermione's "cheek" at 
the Three Broomsticks.  *tilts head* I've never really been able to 
figure out why a successful reporter would give a damn about what 
some little 14 yr. old girl said to her and go through all the 
trouble to write an insulting article (complete with quotes from 
interviews with the Slytherins) about her for *the* major newspaper 
of the WW.
It's very odd, isn't it?  Doesn't she have anything better to do?
Anyway, even barring that, I still think she falls under the category 
of "horrible person," but perhaps I just have higher standards than 
you do. *shrugs*

Laura (who thinks Rita's type is one of the worst kinds out there. 
*nods solemnly*)

Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;
Laura, just wondering, would you consider Rita and Umbridge basicly 
the same type of nasty person?
Did Rita try to have dementors sent to take anyones soul?
Did Rita make anyone write lines with a quill that cuts the hand and 
uses blood from said cut to write the lines?
I would not like to be friends with someone like a Rita Skitter, but 
at least she did not PERSONALLY try to KILL anyone, just humiliate 
them. There is a difference between being "HORRIBLE" and UNKIND.
But, perhaps I have met more people and understand there are many 
levels between nice and horrible. *shrugs to own self also*

Fred (who thinks he has met Rita Skeeter before, but not sure. But 
would most definitely remember if he had ever ran into someone like 
Dolores Umbridge)