Timeline for How Accurate is Rita Skeeter?
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| S Jun 8, 2018 at 10:51 | history | bounty ended | Aniket Chowdhury | ||
| S Jun 8, 2018 at 10:51 | history | notice removed | Aniket Chowdhury | ||
| Jun 5, 2018 at 11:44 | vote | accept | TheAsh | ||
| Jun 5, 2018 at 10:05 | comment | added | lly | @Solo That's fine for headcanon but, knowing we have 3+ movies of buildup to the event, it'd be anticlimactic. Might I offer teenage Tom Riddle helping Dumbledore and learning about horcruxes firsthand, with regret over lost love and fallen family remerging them to a powerful Grindel. who redeems himself through surrender? All the more reason for Riddle to see kindness and regret as harmful vanities | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 9:57 | comment | added | Holger | @Solo Rita did never claim that Dumbledore stole the Elder Wand before Grindelwald surrendered. It still leaves room for the possibility that Grindelwald just surrendered, perhaps in fear, and Dumbledore took the Elder Wand after having “beaten” Grindelwald, just like all other defeats of former Elder Wand owners in that book are rather unspectacular. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 9:57 | comment | added | lly | @TheAsh Not at all, but she was repeating vicious slander about Hermione if you accept the books as reliably narrated and Harry's affection as earnest, rather than extracted via love potion. | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 6:25 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Aniket That's speculation, obviously. Wait for upcoming Fantastic Beasts movies.. | |
| Jun 3, 2018 at 23:31 | answer | added | Niffler | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 3, 2018 at 23:11 | comment | added | lly | See also Who killed the eldest brother and stole the Elder Wand? How could Dumbledore ever become the owner of the Elder Wand? | |
| Jun 3, 2018 at 22:34 | answer | added | lly | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 3, 2018 at 19:25 | comment | added | Aniket Chowdhury | @Solo Dumbledore did? Was it in the books? Apart from Skeeter's word, that is? | |
| Jun 2, 2018 at 12:20 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | Rita might be correct here. Dumbledore and Grindelwald were old teenage friends who had to separate just because of different ideologies and fear of social judgement. Also, Dumbledore loved Grindelwald. So, Dumbledore couldn't risk a duel which could kill Grindelwald. Dumbledore definitely stole the Elder Wand which forced Grindelwald to surrender because he couldn't stand against Dumbledore with Elder Wand. | |
| Jun 2, 2018 at 4:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1002775764306145280 | ||
| S Jun 2, 2018 at 2:04 | history | bounty started | Aniket Chowdhury | ||
| S Jun 2, 2018 at 2:04 | history | notice added | Aniket Chowdhury | Draw attention | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 17:34 | comment | added | TheAsh | @JaideepKhare Was Rita really lying then? | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 18:42 | comment | added | Jaideep Khare | I do not think that anything Rita Skeeter says can be believed..Remember all that shit she wrote about Harry in The Goblet of Fire.. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 10:35 | history | reopened |
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 23:35 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 23:14 | history | edited | TheAsh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | TheAsh | @TheDarkLord hard to beleive she didn't have the backstory in her head. Anf even if not, that quotes to obvious not to be retconned in. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 21:08 | comment | added | The Dark Lord | Yes, but she didn't know she was going to do Fantastic Beasts when she wrote Deathly Hallows. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | TheAsh | @TheDarkLord Obviously. I'm just curious what we can extrapulate now. That Skeeter quote is completely unnecessary in book 7, and JKR is fond of dropping hints for later works in apparantly extranious quotes. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 20:54 | comment | added | The Dark Lord | If you want to know the full details of what happened in the Grindelwald duel you'll probably have to wait until the end of Fantastic Beasts... | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 20:53 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 20:42 | comment | added | TheAsh | I edited the question. Can it be unheld? | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 20:36 | comment | added | TheAsh | @ibid - correct. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 20:35 | history | edited | TheAsh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | ibid | @Adamant - I believe OP is referring to Rita Skeeter's remarks in book seven. They were innuendo enough that it wasn't obvious to most readers before JKR said so at Carnegie Hall, but JKR has said in interviews that it was supposed to be implied. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 16:54 | comment | added | Adamant | There's no "innuendo" about Dumbledore's sexuality. Dumbledore. Is. Gay. He had a romantic attraction to Grindelwald. We'll see him with a boyfriend, I think, in the next Fantastic Beasts movie (after his falling out with Grindelwald). Also, it wouldn't be much of an innuendo for her to imply that, because magical society, per JKR, is more accepting of non-straight orientations than Muggle Britain. Dumbledore was probably already known to be gay. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 13:10 | history | closed |
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 11:05 | comment | added | TheAsh | Actually, since her QWC articles are generally accepted as cannon, it would show that JKR intended Rita to be a reliable, if often detail-exaggerated source. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 10:58 | comment | added | ibid | A better question would probably be if her QWC articles are reliable, as most of the information there is both extremely relevant and completely uncollaborated. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:30 | comment | added | b_jonas | @TheAsh See also scifi.stackexchange.com/q/41282/4918 "Did J.K.Rowling always consider Dumbledore gay?" and scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12560/4918 "How was Dumbledore able to defeat Grindelwald, since Grindelwald had the Elder Wand?" In both of those you will find JKR's and the books views directly, and we have enough evidence without considering Rita Skeeter's writings. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:24 | comment | added | Edlothiad | I tried reading the first book, I fell asleep after 3 pages. If we approximate there to be around 6000 pages, that would mean it would take me 2000 nights, that's approximately 6 years. Be back soon with confirmation. On a more relevant note, why does murder mean they weren't beaten? Surely beating someone could end in death? | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:21 | comment | added | TheAsh | Read the seventh book. EVERY known transfer of power was through murder or post-battle sneakiness. There is no record of non-murder mid-battle transfers. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:19 | comment | added | Edlothiad | How could Grindelwald have gotten the Elder wand if it was unbeatable? It must be beatable otherwise it would never have changed hands. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:16 | history | asked | TheAsh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |