If Rita Skeeter was deliberately based on a real person, I imagine she'd tell us – either that Skeeter was based on a real person, or that Lockhart wasn't the only one – as she could keep that person's identity a secret. She's never revealed who Lockhart was based on, although there have been guesses in the media. Edna Everage Its funny bc baby me didnt notice these descriptors and jkrs current avi is getting closer to my ver of rita. The only character who is deliberately based on a real person is Gilderoy Lockhart. What makes this even more gross is that the writing has to make sure to point out how FAKE Rita Skeeters hair and nails and teeth are, like 'ooooo look at this faker' and god, in the same book as S. There was a relevant question earlier in the same interview:Īre any of your characters based on real people? GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs. Plenty of people have made guesses at who Skeeter might be based upon, but Rowling and her publishers have been consistent in saying that there was no deliberate inspiration. Discover & share this Unochapecó GIF with everyone you know. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. She is loathsome-morally, she’s horrible-but I can’t help admiring her toughness. However, I am not going to deny that writing Rita was a lot more fun having met a few people I had met. I didn’t realise that by the time I wrote book four I would have met quite a lot of Ritas and people would assume that I was writing Rita in response to what had happened to me, which was not in fact the truth. She was still called Bridget at the time. It really starts to weigh on him when he is exposed to the wider wizarding world so I thought that that would be the perfect place for Rita to come in.

Anyway, she detained him too long in the Leaky Cauldron and I really needed to get him moving, so I thought that I would not put her there.Īs I was writing book one, I was planning the rest, and book four was supposed to be where Harry’s fame became a burden to him. Ritas story, appearing in The Daily Prophet, over-sensationalizes events, and includes some inventions such as supposed dead people being removed from the forest after the Dark Mark appeared. For some reason she was called Bridget-I forget why. Rita Skeeter is first mentioned after the Quidditch World Cup, where the Muggles in charge of the campsite are attacked by Death Eaters. In a very early draft, Rita, a journalist, was there and she ran up to him. You know when Harry walks into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? Everyone says, “You’re back” and he realises for the first time that he is famous. This is where we learnt that Skeeter appeared in an early draft of Philosopher's Stone, and she also claims that Skeeter is not based on any real person: In an interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2004, she was asked about Skeeter's character.

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