Rita Skeeter

rarely make history. Ravenclaw, 6th year, halfblood

[ravenclawrita]

amalialazaro:

A moment passed where Amalia simply waited for Rita to pack up her belongings before taking one of Rita’s hands in her own and began leading her out of the library. “I think skills like ice skating come back when you try it again. Did you use to skate a lot?” She questioned as her gaze shifted from the corridor in front of them to the other. “We use to go ice skating before the winter break at Beauxbatons. It was kind of a way to relax while studying for exams and when we got back it was just something fun to do.” She smiled as she spoke, fond memories hoped to resurface while new ones waited to form as she lead the Ravenclaw out of the library and out towards the courtyard.

“A lot? Oh no, it was just a fun winter-time thing to do with my family..” She replied, though she wouldn’t care if she fell on her butt in all honesty. Rita just needed to something, anything, to keep her mind off of the Quibbler. And the fact that it was Amalia leading her outside was another perk. “Of course Beauxbatons had casual ice skating, why am I surprised,” she tesed lightly.

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nerissaxwilkes:

“Maybe Ravenclaw should host something, then you’ll have a guarantee of wearing red.” She smirked at the other, hoping to plant the seed of an idea, so that even if Rita herself didn’t organise it, she may share the idea with others. 

“We do throw great parties..” Rita mused, even if partying wasn’t really her thing. One way or another, she was going to have an excuse to dress up. “You mean Slytherin isn’t already on it?”\

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nerissaxwilkes:

“So is anyone hosting a Valentine’s party? Merlin knows I won’t have a Valentine, so I’d like to at least have something to look forward to.” 

“Well I certainly hope so- I love wearing red,” Rita smiled in return. 

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amalialazaro:

“Ice skating on the Black Lake. It should still be frozen enough to do that.” As she spoke, Amalia placed the assigned reading away in her bag and stood up from the table that they were sitting at. “Do you know how to skate? It’s okay if you don’t, I can teach you.” 

“Ice skating, right,” Rita nodded, though it didn’t comprehend right away. Anything for a distraction at this point. “I.. uhm, haven’t skated since I was little,” she admitted, “but let’s do it.”

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leaveittogizmo:

Loud and painful coughing could be heard down the hall. Smoke billowed along the ceiling. Anyone coming down the corridor would see a very ash ridden Gizmo patting himself and his robes to suffocate the small embers dancing along his clothes. It looked like he had just been in an explosion. “Alright… alright… I know what you’re going to say but this… it was-” He had to take another minute to cough. “It wasn’t my fault. It wasn’t…”

Rita couldn’t help but turn around, a clearly alarmed expression taking over her face as she saw the smoke and the boy walking out of it. “Jesus, Gizmo, you know they don’t keep fire extinguishers around here...” she exclaimed, patting her pockets to locate her wand. 

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angel-velasquez-gryffindor:

“A piece of paper…?” He grabbed it and red over the headlines. “Looks like a zine. Shit these things are hella popular back home. Thanks.“ Angel took it as an offering and started to flip through the pages.

For just a moment Rita stood dumbfounded at the boy’s actions, before shaking it off and snatching the paper back from him. “That wasn’t an offer,” she told him sharply. She turned quickly and tossed it directly in the rubbish bin. “Now that’s better.”

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xenogood:

Xeno was sitting outside in the courtyard studying for his Magical Creatures class. When he heard stomping footsteps come his way. 

“What do you think you’re doing?” she asked bluntly. 

He looked up and with a kind smile he replied “Hello Rita, why, I’m reading my text book. I do hear that theres going to be a quiz in class today. Beast be prepared.” he noticed something was bothering. It was probably The Quibbler. He didn’t know why, she didn’t want him in her paper…so why couldn’t he have his own. 

“Don’t play coy with me, Lovegood,” she snapped back, narrowing her eyes at him. If he didn’t know exactly what she was angry about, he was dumber than she thought. And Rita’s bad side wasn’t somewhere people usually wanted to end up. “What’s with the Quibbler, hm? Who gave you permission for that?”

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rebelliousaureliusxox:

Aurelius gave her a funny look, “A what-snipper now? It sounds like some sort of tool. I can’t say I’ve heard of it.” He thought he knew everything but this sounded foreign. Whatever a pippersnipper was, had him stumped. It made him look stupid. “It sounds like something made up; Xeno tends to do that, right?”

“Your guess is as good as mine,” she shrugged back. Xeno was eccentric to say the least, and his obsession with finding magical creatures that no one else thought existed was.. odd. “Sounds likely to me, I’ve certainly never read anything about them in our textbooks,” she told Eli while crossing her arms. 

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toucannightingalexox:

“I don’t think the pictures and colour do it any favours,” he nodded. Cassius knew it sounded harsh but when it came to writing and such, he was a tough critic. “I see an younger audience enjoying it really. It isn’t for our age.” He frowned at her words and shook his head, “I… I wouldn’t call your paper trash and I would probably be very pissed off if I were in your shoes. But, I do wonder why they keep reading if they hate it? This Quibbler won’t get that much fanfare as yours does. Besides, people are talking about your work, not this,” he waved his hand to where the scrunched up magazine was. “I bet you two galleons things will be back to normal in a few days.” Cassius wasn’t a fan having someone’s hard work be discredited this way. It was awful as was this new magazine.

When Cassius spoke, Rita had to wonder if she was overreacting. After all, if it was as bad as she assumed it would be (the reason she didn’t want that stuff published in the Insider), she had nothing to worry about. But she couldn’t help but be upset and anxious over it. “People like reading about other people, just not themselves,” she pointed out as an answer to his question, grumbling softly. Like it or not, she had a pretty good idea of what people found entertaining, and she was giving it to them. “I’ll take that bet, but how about this- instead of two galleons, you’ll owe me at butterbeer in Hogsmeade,” she tried to smile. but she still had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.

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amara-greengrass:

Amara looked up and sighed. “Just don’t read it.” She shrugged as she dropped her gaze back on her book. “Just ignore it. I’ve not even looked at the magazine. Though a lot of Gryffindors have been rambling on about it. What’s written in it to get you this angry?” 

“I won’t,” she lied. as much as she didn’t want to read it, she had to know what was being written in case it contradicted anything she was publishing. With a heavy sigh, she just shrugged, “It’s not what’s written- thats rubbish. It’s who is writing it.”

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talksalotlucy:

“ People will read the Insider because it is what they are used to and because it’s the best. Let Xeno have his little paper and do what he wants, he will never been better than us, and this Jane Starr person will never be us.” She said halfheartedly. “ We still have a lot of better things than them.” She smiled at her friend. 

“But Why should he be encroaching on our territory like that? Honestly, Lucy, I thought you’d be more upset,” Rita replied, obviously put out. Rita was selfish, she’d never deny that, but yes she did want to have the only school paper. “You’re not the least bit worried?”

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@xenogood

While hunting down the Hufflepuff was more difficult that she would’ve thought, eventually Rita did find the boy she was looking for. “What do you think you’re doing?” she asked bluntly, not bothering with pleasantries. If he didn’t expect her to come and find him, well, he had another thing coming. 

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amalialazaro:

“Rite respira, you need to breathe.” The assigned reading was placed away as Amalia grabbed the paper out of Rita’s hand. “Let him write what he wants, it’s only going to prove that he’s crazy and not someone to take seriously. Besides…” At this point, she threw away pieces of the paper and smiled at her friend. “You’re paper is way better than whatever that is and it’s mostly because you have a nice writing style. Honestly, I read it and not for the gossip section either.” She looked around her for a moment, frowning a little when she saw someone else reading the magazine. “Wanna go have some fun outside of the castle?” Perhaps, a distraction was in order. 

Rita could only nod in response to Amalia’s kind words, though she was still fuming beneath the surface. She would have to really calm down a bit before she could fully appreciate what she’d said, so she just tried to follow her advice and breathe. She wanted to throw away, or possibly burn, every copy of that stupid publication. “Outside? uhm, sure,” she forced herself to turn back to Amalia and manage a weak smile. “What did you have in mind?”

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talksalotlucy:

“ I’m just saying Rita don’t worry it won’t be around for long.And the story was interesting it could be in our paper but you couldn’t give him 5 minutes to speak.” She shrugged. Of course she wished both paper well she was on both of them. “ Well Zara is passionate about her poetry and it’s not like she’s wrong. She a big girl if she can’t take the heat, she’ll stop.” 

“Of course I didn’t, look at this. It’s nonsense,” she snapped curtly. “I might’ve been able to ignore it if it was just poetry and silly creatures, but whoever this Jane Starr is is coming dangerously close to the Insider territory and I don’t like it. Why do people need more than one source for school things? The outcome of a quidditch match doesn’t change just because someone else is also writing about it.”

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ravencrouch:

Barty had heard a thing or two, about something in the Quibbler. But, he didn’t often worry about that, because he was far too busy with a lot of different things, and tried to avoid most of what people were gossiping about. “I do believe that is The Quibbler, that you are holding there.” 

“Thank you for pointing out the obvious, Barty,” she sighed with a roll of her eyes. “I meant ‘why is there suddenly a Quibbler to begin with?”

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silvertonguedheartxox:

Cristemia, who had been browsing the magazine, tucked it inside of her robes when she heard the voice. Rita Skeeter. “I wouldn’t call it competition,” she began slowly, her eyes watching the other closely. “More of a creative pubilcation, unlike the stuff you write.”

The blonde fiddled with the hem of her robes. It was mostly due to the poetry that her friend had written that she was being relaxed. Zara wrote well and Cristemia was proud of her friend. “You write pure fiction, no matter how much it angers people. The Quibbler is for those with an abstract mind. Don’t worry, your precious paper isn’t in jeopardy.”

“Creative publication, hm?” she replied dryly. “Is that because of the poetry that the professors wouldn’t allow posted in the hallways?” While Rita didn’t have a problem with people expressing themselves, she had to admit that Zara’s ‘writing’ was very provocative. and provocative could mean dangerous.  “What we publish isn’t fiction,” she clarified first, though she had no need to explain herself to the girl. “But ‘abstract’ mind is just a kind way to say ‘ridiculous’.”

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thesilentlionalaric:

“calling it garbage seems a tad extreme.” alaric wrote. “I read it earlier I didnt think it was so bad.. nothing wrong with having more things to read, it challenges the mind besides doesnt mean your writing is over.” 

Rita paused a moment to read what the boy had written to her, huffing to herself because she couldn’t disagree more. “He’s only doing this because I wouldn’t let him on my paper,” she snapped back, “how do you know that isn’t what he wants? to replace the Insider? I won’t allow it..”