10 Craziest Harry Potter Fan Theories
5. The Real Identity Of Rita Skeeter
To entertain this fan theory, you really need to suspend your
disbelief. Like suspend it so high that you believe the fictional world of
Harry Potter is actually fact and has spilled over into real-life.
The story goes that skeevy journalist Rita Skeeter is fired from her job at The Daily Prophet for her unscrupulous reporting and truth-bending and spurned forth into the muggle world where she enacts a crafty act of revenge against the wizarding world by exposing them and all their magical goings-on through a series of novels under the pseudonym of – dun dun dun! – J.K. Rowling.
Us dumb muggles assume the story of Harry Potter is fiction and the books become so popular they transform the former Rita Skeeter into a bestselling author. The Ministry of Magic, meanwhile, is powerless to do anything for fear of exposing Rowling’s works as fact while she lives out her days lapping up lucrative movie deals and international acclaim.
Makes perfect sense.