[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chamber of Secrets Chapter 18: Dobby's reward

[lui]

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Joey:

I too feel that way for the most part except for the character of Rita Skeeter. I was quite surprised that not even a single mention of her name was made in the first 3 books especially PoA where Fudge was shown to be worrying about Daily Prophet's reports regarding MoM's ability to capture Black.



luirhys:
 Actually, if you read some of her interviews, she said that she initially wanted Skeeter to be in the first book- in the Leaky Cauldron, where Hagrid takes Harry after first learning that he was a wizard. She decided to move her appearance to the 4th book, because this is when "Harry really comes to term with his fame." 


Rita was intended to be in Philosopher's Stone, as Rowling 
revealed in an interview: "you know when Harry walks into the Leaky 
Cauldron for the first time and everyone says, "Mr. Potter you're 
back!", I wanted to put a journalist in there. She wasn't called Rita 
then but she was a woman. And then I thought, as I looked at the plot 
overall, I thought, that's not really where she fits best, she fits best in Four when Harry's supposed to come to terms with his fame."
^ Transcript of interview with J.K. 
Rowling. BBC Newsround. 2000. Accessed 25 October 2007.
 




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