Thing you're changing:Hermione doesn't figure out that Rita is a beetle How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books? If Hermione hadn't figured out that Rita Skeeter was an unregistered animagus, then Rita would have gone crazy with her stories like she always did, but what's really important here is the information she could have released from what she gathered in the hospital wing the night of Cedric's death. The confrontation between Dumbledore and Fudge, hearing of Voldemort's return, seeing Sirius Black, all of these were seen by Rita. This could go a number of ways. Harry could be seen even further as an attention seeking lunatic with his claims that Voldemort has returned which would build up the case against him in OotP, the hunt for Sirius would be aided since the Ministry would know about his animagus form, etc. Not to mention that Rita wouldn't have written up her interview with Harry for The Quibbler
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Date: 2011-11-26 10:06 am (UTC)How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books?
If Hermione hadn't figured out that Rita Skeeter was an unregistered animagus, then Rita would have gone crazy with her stories like she always did, but what's really important here is the information she could have released from what she gathered in the hospital wing the night of Cedric's death. The confrontation between Dumbledore and Fudge, hearing of Voldemort's return, seeing Sirius Black, all of these were seen by Rita. This could go a number of ways. Harry could be seen even further as an attention seeking lunatic with his claims that Voldemort has returned which would build up the case against him in OotP, the hunt for Sirius would be aided since the Ministry would know about his animagus form, etc. Not to mention that Rita wouldn't have written up her interview with Harry for The Quibbler
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