Post by Rita Gloria Skeeter on Feb 16, 2010 14:04:38 GMT -5
RITA|GLORIA|SKEETER
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And the only things you want to see are kitsch
And the only thing you want to be is rich
Your little pink up-pointed nose begins twitch
I know you know you're just a little bitch!
And the only thing you want to be is rich
Your little pink up-pointed nose begins twitch
I know you know you're just a little bitch!
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[/size]IT’S A LIE SHE’S BEEN CARRYING AROUND
IT’S THE LIE THAT WILL BRING HER DOWN
[/font][/size]IT’S THE LIE THAT WILL BRING HER DOWN
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[/size]Name: Rita Gloria Skeeter
Nickname: Her friends call her Reetie sometimes but mostly she goes by Rita. Some people have taken to calling her 'Gossip Girl' which she admittedly doesn't mind much either.
Age/Birthday: 16 / March 4th
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Blood Status: Half-Blood
Affiliation: Neutral with leanings towards Pureblood/DE superiority
Year/House: Ravenclaw 6th Yr
Wand: 11 inches, rosewood, quite springy, unicorn hair core - good for charms.
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[/size]TAKES PRIDE IN APPEARANCE
AND THE JOB IN HAND
[/size]AND THE JOB IN HAND
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[/size]Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark brown, but Rita is prone to changing it's color often - she's thinking of going redhead next.
Height: 5'7
Weight: 120lbs
Distinguishing Features(if any): "Tattoos? I'm not a common muggle, dahling. Can't you see I have perfectly flawless skin?"
Play-by: Kiera Knightley
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[/size]IT’S THE SIMPLE FLAW
THE MIND FORGETS TO LOOK FOR
[/size]THE MIND FORGETS TO LOOK FOR
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[/size]Erised: Rita Skeeter - Editor in chief of the Daily Prophet and well loved investigative journalist.
Patronus: Bengal tiger, produced by the memory of Rita receiving her Hogwarts letter.
Boggart: Rita's greatest fear is simply failure - dropping out of school, failing her exams, unpopularity. Rita needs to be perfect and any time her carefully prepared perfection goes awry she freaks out, to be honest. So, Rita's boggart is Professor Dippet telling her she has been expelled from Hogwarts, to live a life of failure and poverty. I know, how embarrassing.
Dementor: The death of her 'Nonna' on her mother's side, the only Muggle relative Rita was close to.
Amortentia: Ink, Parchment, Freshly pressed robes
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[/size]THE PIECE YOU DIDN’T SEE
AND THE PIECE YOU DIDN’T FIGHT FOR
[/size]AND THE PIECE YOU DIDN’T FIGHT FOR
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[/size]Likes: -gossip
-writing
-biographies of famous wizards
-her dad's homemade pumpkin pasties
-red lipstick
-travelling
-hearing secrets
-boys
-the daily prophet
-solving puzzles
-photography
-red nails
-parties
Dislikes: -keeping secrets
-cooking
-quiet/timid people
-waking up early
-cats
-hufflepuffs
-the quibbler
-spelling mistakes
-flying in the rain
-crying
-unorganised people
-those who sit on the fence
-risking getting into trouble
Strengths:
-persuasive
-creative
-good writer
-ambitious
-clever
-independent
Weaknesses
-bitchy
-spreads gossip
-perfectionist
-lacks sympathy/empathy
-lies a lot
-pretentious
Overall Personality:
COMPETITIVE
Put quite simply, Rita likes to win. All Ravenclaws are intelligent by assosciated but Rita likes being clever and she likes beating her peers to the post in her exams. It's not to say that Rita's a geek though, she enjoys beating her peers in all senses of the word. She loathes to be shown up in arguments, to miss out on parties or to be bypassed by boys for other girls. Thankfully that doesn't happen very often. Rita enjoys the thrill of the chase. She likes picking the alpha male of the group. But unfortunately that thrill doesn't last long. Once she gets to the top of the class, gets invited to the party, gets the boy she wants Rita is already looking for the next big thing.
AMBITIOUS
If there's one thing Rita can't stand it's people who float through life with no goals. What's the point in making it through the day if you don't spend every extra moment striving to get to the top. That's exactly what Rita Skeeter wants - to get to the top, & she'll step over anything to get to that peak. In fact in this ambitious respect Rita is very Slytherin-like in personality. In fact if it wasn't for the strong Muggle side of her family she probably would have been sorted into that elitist house. But house allegiances and other trivial things like that don't really bother Rita. Pureblood, halfblood, muggle - it doesn't matter, Rita will surpass you anyway.
PERSUASIVE
Being a total gossip like Rita is, and admittedly, a bit of a bitch, trouble can be lurking around every corner. It could be a risk to take that embarrassing photograph, publish that story in her monthly gossip newsletter. It takes care, and if trouble does come a-knockin' it is important to know how to manipulate the situation. It wouldn't make much sense for her to end up getting expelled. She wouldn't have much hope of getting employed then. So Rita has learned to be incredibly persuasive and manipulative. She's subtle about it, but in her own convincingly sneaky away she has so far in her life managed to get herself out of any sticky situation that has come her way.
INTELLIGENT
This one goes without saying. Ravenclaw's are supposed to be clever right? Rita does well in school, achieving mostly E's, and even a few O's (when she manages to figure out the answers from one of her many sources). For Rita, intelligence goes beyond multiple choice tests and OWL results. Coming from her love of writing, gossip andher ambition to bring some more life into Hogwarts Rita set out a monthly gossip newletter that is discreetly Owled to a few students of each house. So far the newsletter has been a roaring success, and another achievement that Rita has notched up to her ambiton and intellect.
INDEPENDENT
So, Rita's the girl you see at every party and every social outing. She's always in the middle of the conversation and always on the guest list. Despite that, she doesn't seem to have any best friends, and she's never had a proper, serious boyfriend. Rita puts it down to an independent personality. She doesn't need to be spilling her guts to people, crying on their shoulder. People spill their guts to her, cry on her shoulder (and then later regret it when they find their secrets mysteriously snaking around the school). But all the same, Rita is still a teenage girl underneath all that bravado and whilst she doesn't need anyone to rely on it would be nice to have some friends that aren't acquaintances, or maybe even a nice boy...
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[/size]IT’S THE CRACKING OF THE GLASS
THE HAUNTING OF YOUR PAST
[/size]THE HAUNTING OF YOUR PAST
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[/size]Family: Charlie Skeeter - Photographer for the Daily Prophet. Jeanette Skeeter - Beautician/Muggle
Pets: "Pets? I'd rather keep my robes free of animal droppings. They're quite expensive you know"
Residence: Three storey Georgian house, modest, Kent
History:
Rita Gloria Skeeter grew up with a love of knowledge, a thirst for understanding, a wish to look outside the box. She has always wanted to know the very things that people told her she wasn't allowed to know. Her father, a Wizarding photographer who mostly focued on embarrassing political photos for the Daily Prophet, loved his only daughter from the very minute she was born. In fact he chronicled her life, and cherished it from the moment of her birth to her last day on her last visit home with boxes and boxes of vivid moving portraits. Her mother, a Muggle beautician doted on Rita just as much and some of the Ravenclaw's earliest memories are following her mother into the salon and listening to her gossiping clients, trying not to blow anything up with her as yet unbridled magical ability.
As soon as she was old enough to walk, Rita wanted to explore, to adventure, to learn. Her father always called her a 'little encyclopedia' and said that she inherited her third for knowlege from him. And she had, along with her naturally red hair and dark eyes. The family friends had orgiinally called Rita their 'Little Charlie' but the child soon proved lively and controversial enough to warrant her own nicknames and anecdotes. The love for knowledge and thirst to learn was what earned Rita her place in Ravenclaw once she was old enough to go to Hogwarts, and she relished her position as one of the golden eagles of the school, the smart ones, the ones who deserved to be here not because they were brave, or loyal, or had the right family, but because they were smart enough to be taught. But Rita inherited enough from her Mother too. She remembered trailing after Jeannette in her high heels with lipstick smeared on her face. Her mother took back the hells but the red lipstick stayed, along with a compulsive habit of dying her hair. Currently she's dark brown, but she's thinking of blonde in the future.
And so she made her way through Hogwarts moving forward on her parents gifts of intelligence and beauty to make her mark on the ancient school. And so far so good on that front. Most of the other students know the name Rita Skeeter, and that's just the way she likes it. Now that she's finally in her last year Rita can't wait to break out of Hogwarts and make her name on the Wizarding World. Her ultimate goal is to work her way up in the 'Daily Prophet' until she makes it as the first female editor. But until then, Rita can concentrate on finishing her school career with a bang. Watch this space.
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[/size]YOU TOOK YOUR EYES UP OFF THE GAME
YOU’VE GOT NO ONE LEFT TO BLAME
[/size]YOU’VE GOT NO ONE LEFT TO BLAME
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[/size]Name/Alias: Rosiee
Age: 17
Roleplay Experience: since birth pretty much
How you heard about us: Kat!
Code Phrase: -admin edit-
Roleplay Sample:
Everyone in Rita's group of friends who was in sixth year was gossiping about the same thing this morning. The new Charms Professor. Rita, as usual, was up to date with everything that was happening around the castle. It had been Rita who had overheard McGonagall talking about Professor Grime's little breakdown over the Summer and had singlehandedly spread it like wildfire through the corridors. But then again, as she always said it wasn't finding gossip that was hard, but finding the follow-up. Soon, everybody wanted to know who would replace Grimes. After distracting people with a fake rumour that Flitwick would be returning temporarily Rita had evidently been the first to hear the rumours that a 'Professor Grayson' would be taking up the post. Her father had told her he was a rather indiscriminate ministry worker, and to be honest Rita was rather disappointed. She fancied some new blood around Hogwarts, someone interesting. So, for once Rita Skeeter didn't know everything, and her friends were gossiping over their pumpkin juice over what kind of teacher he would be.
Tiring of gossiping when she wasn't able to interject with the answer, Rita quickly made her excuses and finished her toast. She flicked her hair and grabbed her bag, exiting in front of her friends just as Wendy wondered aloud whether Grayson would be stricter than grimes. "Well I'll surely try to find out for you girls, I'd better go, I left my Charms textbook in the classroom and we don't want Grayson thinking I'm some forgetful idiot now." Rita smirked at the smattering of giggles her comments had produced and made her way from the Great Hall. Lucky for Rita she hadn't much to worry about whether Grayson was strict or not. Charms was one of Rita's favourite subjects at school, much easier than Transfiguration and didn't mess up her curled hair like the steam rising off Slughorn's smelly old Potions. She didn't usually mess up in Charms and she wasn't really going early from breakfast to pick up forgotten textbooks - that kind of clumsiness wasn't Rita's thing. She was going to make a first impression, naturally, but she didn't want all her friends seeing her being a suck up - or trying to get in on getting in the good books with the Professor. Rita needed good grades to get into her internship after graduating Hogwarts next year with the Daily Prophet - and she would do whatever it took to get good grades, even if that meant sucking up to some smelly strict old Professor.
With that thought in mind to strengthen her resolve, Rita smoothed out her robes outside her Charms classroom and had just fixed on her best charming 'Top Student' smile when the door swung open almost hitting her in the face. Rita scowled as she watched the back of Averei Winter - complete with bottle blonde hair and knock-off red bag, Rita thought viciously - retreat down the corridor. "Watch where you're going Winter!" Rita hissed loudly, adding under her breath "And they wonder why the Slytherins bitch about Muggle-Borns." Rolling her eyes, Rita smoothed down her blue and bronze robes again and pushed open the door of the Charms classroom. Wow. Now, that was a nice surprise. Rita had expected an ageing, balding wheezy old Charms Professor, but Grayson was young, and well, he was hot. She smiled her best attempt at a dazzling smile and coming into the classroom fully, she extended a hand toward the Professor. "Good morning, you must be Professor Grayson. I'm Rita Skeeter." She practically grinned up, flicking her curls as her gleaming 'Prefect' badge caught the light streaming in through the window. All that was missing was an apple to put on his desk. Rita was glad that Averei Winter had run into her outside now, it meant she had time to greet the new Professor properly. She smirked. "I know I'm quite early, I always like to arrive punctually to class, just in case I miss any background information. I do have a great passion for Charms you see."
Tiring of gossiping when she wasn't able to interject with the answer, Rita quickly made her excuses and finished her toast. She flicked her hair and grabbed her bag, exiting in front of her friends just as Wendy wondered aloud whether Grayson would be stricter than grimes. "Well I'll surely try to find out for you girls, I'd better go, I left my Charms textbook in the classroom and we don't want Grayson thinking I'm some forgetful idiot now." Rita smirked at the smattering of giggles her comments had produced and made her way from the Great Hall. Lucky for Rita she hadn't much to worry about whether Grayson was strict or not. Charms was one of Rita's favourite subjects at school, much easier than Transfiguration and didn't mess up her curled hair like the steam rising off Slughorn's smelly old Potions. She didn't usually mess up in Charms and she wasn't really going early from breakfast to pick up forgotten textbooks - that kind of clumsiness wasn't Rita's thing. She was going to make a first impression, naturally, but she didn't want all her friends seeing her being a suck up - or trying to get in on getting in the good books with the Professor. Rita needed good grades to get into her internship after graduating Hogwarts next year with the Daily Prophet - and she would do whatever it took to get good grades, even if that meant sucking up to some smelly strict old Professor.
With that thought in mind to strengthen her resolve, Rita smoothed out her robes outside her Charms classroom and had just fixed on her best charming 'Top Student' smile when the door swung open almost hitting her in the face. Rita scowled as she watched the back of Averei Winter - complete with bottle blonde hair and knock-off red bag, Rita thought viciously - retreat down the corridor. "Watch where you're going Winter!" Rita hissed loudly, adding under her breath "And they wonder why the Slytherins bitch about Muggle-Borns." Rolling her eyes, Rita smoothed down her blue and bronze robes again and pushed open the door of the Charms classroom. Wow. Now, that was a nice surprise. Rita had expected an ageing, balding wheezy old Charms Professor, but Grayson was young, and well, he was hot. She smiled her best attempt at a dazzling smile and coming into the classroom fully, she extended a hand toward the Professor. "Good morning, you must be Professor Grayson. I'm Rita Skeeter." She practically grinned up, flicking her curls as her gleaming 'Prefect' badge caught the light streaming in through the window. All that was missing was an apple to put on his desk. Rita was glad that Averei Winter had run into her outside now, it meant she had time to greet the new Professor properly. She smirked. "I know I'm quite early, I always like to arrive punctually to class, just in case I miss any background information. I do have a great passion for Charms you see."
