![]() As he rifles through the book, Harry feels perverse pleasure-now he will know Dumbledore's secrets. ![]() Harry assures Hermione that he is not angry about his wand, it was only an accident, and he is grateful to her for saving his life. You said everything, even if you don't remember it. Here's a copy of the book, hope you like it. A note sticking out reads: Dear Batty, Thanks for your help. Still upset, Hermione timidly brings Harry tea and shows him Rita Skeeter's book, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore that she took from Bathilda Bagshot's house. Now Harry is without a wand, without the Sword, and the dropped thief's photo has given Voldemort vital information. Instead, they were left groping blindly, without a plan or a map, and it nearly took their lives. In desperation they had gone to Godric's Hollow, believing it held answers and would lead to some secret path laid out by Dumbledore. The Snitch is also inside, and Harry is momentarily tempted to toss it, believing it is as useless as everything else Dumbledore left behind. He tucks the broken halves, barely held together by the damaged Phoenix feather, into the Mokeskin pouch around his neck. Without it he feels weak, vulnerable, and stripped naked, as if his magical power died with it. The next morning, Harry is still mourning his lost wand. I see no reason for her to directly lie about this in the second quote.Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. 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. The only character who is deliberately based on a real person is Gilderoy Lockhart. There was a relevant question earlier in the same interview:Īre any of your characters based on real people? 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. 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. ![]() For some reason she was called Bridget-I forget why. 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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