11 Utterly Ludicrous Fan Theories (That Are Actually Quite Convincing)

5. JK Rowling Is Actually Rita Skeeter

The Theory: Though some suggest that JK Rowling wrote Hermione as her own character-mirror, another, less heroic character offers the real key to her own magical backstory. Rather than a simple writer with big ideas who struck gold with her wizarding story, Rowling is in fact Rita Skeeter, the despicable wizarding world journalist who wrote the damaging biography of Dumbledore and was forced to leave the wizard's community as a result after the final events of The Deathly Hallows.

In vengeance, Skeeter took a Muggle name to hide from any wizards who would do her harm, and vowed to uncover the secrets of the wizarding world in a warts-and-all expose that blew the lid off the greatest deception ever pulled off. Trouble is, the Muggle world believed it all to be fantasy, and categorised the modern history of wizards as a fiction book. Rather than complain, once the cheques started to come in, the notoriously greedy journalist decided to simply live off her fortunes, though changing to adult fiction after a warning from the Ministry Of Magic.

The Proof: Even in the context of normal writers - and frequently rejected ones at that - Rowling's story of how she came up with Harry Potter seems pretty implausible. This is a much more satisfactory explanation.