10 Dumbest Hermione Granger Moments
6. Provoking Rita Skeeter - The Goblet Of Fire
Rita Skeeter exemplified the ugly side of journalism. She simply did not care about the truth, but instead aimed to get as much attention as possible by ridiculing her unfortunate victims in various publications.
Ron even warned Hermione against picking a fight with Rita Skeeter. However, Hermione ignored him and confronted this dangerous journalist face to face following her article about Hagrid in The Daily Prophet.
Unsurprisingly, Rita responded by portraying Hermione as a spiteful and promiscuous young woman in Witch Weekly. As a consequence, Hermione received hate mail from a number of individuals, one of which sent her undiluted bubotuber pus with the morning post.
Thankfully, she got her revenge at the end of The Goblet of Fire when she discovered Rita Skeeter was an Animagus. Still, she would have saved herself a lot of pain if she’d kept her head down rather than confronting such a savage journalist head on.