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2.People have asked me whether Rita Skeeter was invented for that purpose, but in fact she was always planned.
3.For example, McGonagall and Skeeter both wear glasses and their Animagi forms include marks around the eyes.
4.Story-construction-wise, Quidditch practice serves as a tidy excuse for not having Ron present at the Skeeter meeting later on.
5.Unfortunately, the Prophet does not seem to have a lot of journalistic integrity, as is clear from the fact that Rita Skeeter wrote for it regularly until the spring of Y15.
6.It is not known precisely what the legal consequences are for an unregistered Animagus, but they are apparently rather severe, as the threat of exposure as an unregistered Animagus was enough to persuade Rita Skeeter to take a year off from her job as a scandal-mongering reporter (GF37).
