Written for the Emotion Challenge from HPFFC
Emotion: Inspired
Word count: 286
The Start of Something Terrible
Rita Skeeter had all the right intentions to come up with a magazine that helped people instead of ruining them. She was always skilled with writing, and she had hoped to use it to good use. The idea of starting a newspaper happened during through her time at Hogwarts. She was a fifth year Slytherin, and she had just witness discrimination between her housemate and a Gryffindor. Rita had written about the encountered with all the nitty gritty details, and she had named her magazine Rita's Corner. She left the question of why were, people, always judging Slytherins so harshly? Had it been because of Salazar Slytherin? True, the man was all about Purity and against having muggleborns going to Hogwarts, but that didn't mean every Slytherin student thought the same way. Most of the Slytherins were halfbloods, the most famous one being Tom Riddle better known as Lord Voldemort. Some of the dark wizards and witches came from the other houses, but people seem to forget that.
Rita wanted to show people that weren't like that. Rita's Corner whole purpose was to put Slytherin in a better light. But because her magazine was so truthful. Nobody was interested, after all, who would want to read about nice Slytherins? So Rita started to add more words in and twist a couple of stories, all for the good of Slytherin of course. It's what got people to read and sure few people were hurt in the process but it had to be done. Surely they could see that? And when she had graduated from Hogwarts, she wanted to tackle on bigger problems and try for the truth again. But she quickly learned that the truth didn't sell.