Rita Skeeter

Another person I despise in the series is Rita Skeeter. She's a bug, and I really don't like bugs, so in turn I really don't like her. She's everything a reporter is not supposed to be, biased opinionated. She always editorialized in her feature/new stories and doesn't attribute quotes well either. She also makes life even harder for Harry than it already is, along with the Triwizard Tournament.

I'm reading slowly right now. Goblet of Fire is a long book and with swim practice, float building and deciding what to where for each spirit day, it's been difficult to keep up. Not to mention that we've been trying to get Carpe Diem off to press ALL this week. What if there was some Rita Skeeter woman following me? I can't wait for a chance to get to sit down and read for a good bit. I've actually been reading as much as I can. I even read to avoid other assignments for other classes which is kind of a bad thing... but it's all I have energy and the attention span for. After about half a chapter I seem to doze off.

Rita Skeeter always gets a rise out of me though. No matter who she's bothering: Harry, Hagrid, Hermione, the Weasleys. Poor journalism (sensationalism) at it's best. I can't wait to get to the part where Hermione catches her and keeps her in a jar AND blackmails her. How great will that be? Perhaps I will let her redeem herself in Order of the Phoenix. We'll see.