Rita Skeeter, played by actor Miranda Richardson, standing behind the blurred figures of Harry and Hermione, played by actors Daniel Radciffe and Emma Watson.
Harry Potter has almost too many characters to keep track of, so it's no wonder that, while adapting the books, the films had to cut down several roles. While some are removed from the story entirely, others have a reduced role. A prominent example is Rita Skeeter , who is introduced in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as a journalist for the Daily Prophet, who spreads gossip about Harry and his friends.
✕ Remove Ads Hermione eventually discovers that the journalist is an Animagus, meaning she can turn into an animal — in Rita Skeeter's case, a beetle. In this discrete form, Rita Skeeter spies on the people in the school, hearing things that were never meant to be public knowledge and using that information in her articles when she is not making up lies.
✕ Remove Ads 2:35 Related Every Harry Potter Movie, Ranked by Book Accuracy Which blockbuster film was most faithful? ✕ Remove Ads Why Did the Harry Potter Films Cut Rita Skeeter's Secret? The films reduced Rita Skeeter's role, in large part because they didn't explore the truth behind her articles in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Not only does this change save time for the main plot, but it also avoids the issue of Hermione's ruthless nature. Hermione blackmailing Rita Skeeter, especially after the books show her struggling financially, shows Hermione playing dirty.
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