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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Welcome to another instalment of Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’ll be discussing a list of EIGHT Major things that magic simply CANNOT do.

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Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’ll be discussing how ordinary Muggles react when they find out that their child is magical.

The majority of Muggle-born witches and wizards do not discover that they are magical until they are invited to come study magic as a child. In the United Kingdom, this momentous occasion takes place the year of a child’s eleventh birthday by way of mail. Each young witch or wizard receives their letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sometime over the summer months before the start of term in the fall. In the case of Muggleborns, Hogwarts dispatches a member of staff to travel to the home of said muggle-born student so that the letter can be properly introduced and explained.

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