There are few witches in the wizarding world who can silence a room quite like Rita Skeeter.

Not with a curse — but with a quill.

With a quick scribble from her Quick-Quotes Quill, reputations trembled. Careers ended. Truth blurred. And somewhere, behind a thick layer of lipstick and lime-green fingernails, Rita Skeeter smiled with satisfaction.

Hermione was certainly never shy in sharing what she thought of her:

“You horrible woman. You don’t care, do you? Anything for a story, and anyone will do, won’t they?”

But before the headlines, before The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore and her smear campaigns against Harry Potter..Who WAS Rita Skeeter?

How did an ambitious Hogwarts student turn into the most reviled journalist of her age?

Today we’ll dive in to all of that (AND MORE) as we look at the Life and Lies of Rita Skeeter.

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