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The Daily Prophet's most ruthless gossip journalist — her acid-green Quick-Quotes Quill turns every interview into a weapon, and her secret beetle Animagus form lets her eavesdrop on things she was never meant to hear.
Rita Skeeter is having the year of her career, and Harry Potter is the source material. She turns his Triwizard interview into a tearful sob story about an orphan boy seeking love. She writes about his 'secret heartbreak' over Hermione — fabricated entirely. She publishes Hagrid's half-giant heritage because the cruelty of the reaction will sell papers. She quotes Draco Malfoy as a reliable source. Her secret is the beetle. Rita is an unregistered Animagus who transforms into a water beetle to infiltrate private conversations, hospital wing visits, and greenhouse gossip. She perches on windowsills, crawls through hair, and records everything. Hermione eventually discovers this and traps her in a jar — but not before Rita has destroyed Hagrid's confidence, manufactured a Harry-Hermione romance, and produced enough inflammatory copy to fill a year's worth of Prophet editions.
Blonde curly hair set in rigid curls, heavy jaw, jeweled spectacles. Long crimson nails, crocodile-skin handbag. Acid-green Quick-Quotes Quill always at the ready. Dresses loudly and talks louder. As a beetle — small, unremarkable, with distinctive markings around the antennae that match her spectacles.
Also known as: Rita, Skeeter, that Skeeter woman, Rita Skeeter