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

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No: HPFGUIDX 82702

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" <slgazit at s...> wrote:


> So while I agree with Ron that "poisonous toadstools don't change 
> their spots", I also think that Rita is redeemable. Perhaps the
year 
> that Hermione sentenced her to think over her actions, not to 
mention 
> the sensational success of the only story she wrote during that
year 
> (and probably the only article she ever wrote without adding any 
> spoof) will help making her a better person and a better
journalist. 
> I can't see Umbridge becoming a better person however much 
> traumatised she was at the end of OoP.
> 
> Salit

Now me:

Ah, but RS quite probably believed, like most journalists of her 
type, that she was protecting "the people's right to know." And, of 
course,her right to make a living, as when she snaps that the Prophet 
exists to sell itself. BTW, if I were Rita Skeeter, I'd be furious 
about the fact that Mr Lovegood had made a lot of money out of an 
article that I had worked hard on and for which I hadn't been paid. I 
suppose there isn't a copyright law in the WW? Sue B