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A notorious journalist for the Daily Prophet. She's known for writing sensationalist news articles that do nothing but stir up trouble. Skeeter always wears robes in shocking colors and is usually accompanied by her photographer. When Harry meets her at the first Triwizard Tournament event, he learns that her articles take the form they do because she uses a Quick-Quotes Quill, which elaborates on what an interview subject says and turns her articles into fantastical pieces that are barely fact. Following the first task, Dumbledore bans her from the school grounds, though this doesn't stop the articles. Skeeter is extremely vindictive and, when Harry refuses to give her interviews, she attacks him and Hermione through her writing. She insinuates that Harry is mentally unstable and turns people against Hermione by suggesting that she's playing with Harry's emotions. This infuriates Hermione, especially when Skeeter begins publishing information gleaned from private conversations to which she wasn't privy, and Hermione takes it upon herself to uncover how Skeeter is able to do this. Hermione eventually discovers that Skeeter is an unregistered Animagus who can turn into a beetle, which is how she was able to sneak into Hogwarts to watch the tasks and interview Slytherin students who ally themselves with her. Hermione captures Skeeter while Harry is in the hospital wing and keeps her in her beetle form in a jar until they get to London. After this, Hermione threatens to spill Skeeter's secret if Skeeter doesn't take an entire year off from writing.
Rita Skeeter Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Rita Skeeter or refer to Rita Skeeter . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Ten
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"Oh really," said Mr. Weasley in exasperation, handing the paper to Percy. "Nobody was hurt. What was I supposed to say? Rumors that several bodies were removed from the woods...well, there certainly will be rumors now that she's printed that."
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Chapter Eighteen
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"Testing...my name is Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet reporter."
Harry looked down quickly at the quill. The moment Rita Skeeter had spoken, the green quill had started to scribble, skidding across the parchment:
Attractive blonde Rita Skeeter, forty-three, whose savage quill has punctured many inflated reputations--
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Chapter Nineteen
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"--and reading between the lines of that Skeeter woman's article last month, Moody was attacked the night before he started at Hogwarts. Yes, I know she says it was another false alarm," Sirius said hastily, seeing Harry about to speak, "but I don't think so, somehow. I think someone tried to stop him from getting to Hogwarts. I think someone knew their job would be a lot more difficult with him around. And no one's going to look into it too closely; Mad-Eye's heard intruders a bit too often."
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Chapter Thirty-Six
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"For heaven's sake, Dumbledore--the boy was full of some crackpot story at the end of last year too--his tales are getting taller, and you're still swallowing them--the boy can talk to snakes, Dumbledore, and you think he's trustworthy?"
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall cried. "Cedric Diggory! Mr. Crouch! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"
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Rita Skeeter Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Rita Skeeter or refer to Rita Skeeter . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Ten
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"Oh really," said Mr. Weasley in exasperation, handing the paper to Percy. "Nobody was hurt. What was I supposed to say? Rumors that several bodies were removed from the woods...well, there certainly will be rumors now that she's printed that."
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Chapter Eighteen
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"Testing...my name is Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet reporter."
Harry looked down quickly at the quill. The moment Rita Skeeter had spoken, the green quill had started to scribble, skidding across the parchment:
Attractive blonde Rita Skeeter, forty-three, whose savage quill has punctured many inflated reputations--
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Chapter Nineteen
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"--and reading between the lines of that Skeeter woman's article last month, Moody was attacked the night before he started at Hogwarts. Yes, I know she says it was another false alarm," Sirius said hastily, seeing Harry about to speak, "but I don't think so, somehow. I think someone tried to stop him from getting to Hogwarts. I think someone knew their job would be a lot more difficult with him around. And no one's going to look into it too closely; Mad-Eye's heard intruders a bit too often."
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Chapter Thirty-Six
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"For heaven's sake, Dumbledore--the boy was full of some crackpot story at the end of last year too--his tales are getting taller, and you're still swallowing them--the boy can talk to snakes, Dumbledore, and you think he's trustworthy?"
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall cried. "Cedric Diggory! Mr. Crouch! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"
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