A/N: This is pretty short, and I wasn't even too sure that I was going to publish it. I wrote it today during my lunch period, just off the top of my head. I'm still feeling pretty sick, so I just wanted to do something to distract myself, and I had just had a conversation with my friend about Fox News. I sort of like it though, and I hope you do, too. Drop me a review and let me know if it was worth posting?
"Now, doesn't this look dull?" Rita said to herself, looking over the notes that she had been given for an article on the Hollyhead Harpies. She was to have it written by the next day, and as her eyes slid over the parchment, she could see that she had her work cut out for her. "It's not going to be easy, spicing this one up…What do I care that they're first in the league, and hopefuls for the World Cup? I'll need a better story than that."
She leaned back in her chair and looked up at the ceiling, as if expecting to see her inspiration scrawled across it. She took the paper up again, and tried to find an interesting angle, or a spin of any sort, that she could bring to the article. She scrutinized each line, and finally began formulation an idea.
"Gwenog Jones…" she muttered, tapping the name with one of her crimson nails. "What skeletons do you have in your closet? Or rather—" she grinned maliciously "—what skeletons can I put there?"
She took up her acid-green Quick Quotes Quill, and began to write.
To the Editor of this "news" paper—
This morning, when I opened the Daily Prophet, it was a great surprise to see my own face staring back at me, under the headline: "The Harpies: Simply a Quidditch Team, or Gwenog Jones' Vehicle for Sexual Perversion?"
I continued in horror to read the slander that you had cooked up about myself and my team. And I am outraged. Never in my life have I been so offended. Now, in response, let me make a few things clear.
While I do identify as a lesbian, which I have stated in previous interviews, I DO NOT, and NEVER WILL, engage in any sexual activity with my team mates. It would completely go against our code of conduct, and interfere with our overall performance. I am appalled that you would even have the nerve to publish such lies. The Hollyhead Harpies' first priority is to be an upstanding example and role model for sportsmanship. This would never be used as an excuse to exploit other women for the sick fantasies that you assume that we have. That I have. Your paper has personally attacked the honor of myself, and my team.
Of course, I was not surprised to see who the article had been written by. Rita Skeeter is notorious for stirring up trouble, and I would expect nothing less from her. Thus, this is my plea to you. I f you, Mr. Editor, wish to maintain the integrity of your paper, and right the wrongs that you have brought against the Harpies, please fire that woman. I assure you, I would not be the only one to thank you.
-Gwenog Jones, Captain of the Hollyhead Harpies
P.S.—If it aids you in making up your mind sooner, we are prepared to sue for defamation.
Rita Skeeter was fired. Again. But she wasn't too worried. She still had her post with WitchWeekly.And the prophet would take her back. They always did.
"Because for every one person who hates my stories," she smiled, "there are ten who love them."