Five Things Rita Skeeter Finds Objectionable About Metellus Travers:
1) When he laughs, he makes this absurd face where he sort of scrunches up his nose and draws his lip up. It makes him look like a giant squirrel.
2) He wears too much pomade, and it's stained all her chairs and pillows. He likes to pretend that he isn't going grey at the temples, but the stains are deep brown, like furniture varnish. Do you have any idea how expensive it is, getting that stuff out of a two hundred galleon, shocking pink loveseat?
3) The endless dinners with his great-uncle Horace. The old man is as rambling, self important and dull as Metellus himself, but at least Metellus has the sense to realise it and not spend thirty or forty minutes at a time telling stories about celebrities from thirty years ago.
4) His pickiness with food. Rita's a bit of a food snob, but she's never known a grown man who won't eat as many foods as Metellus. Sometimes she wants to twist his ear until he cleans his plate.
5) His way of acting like he's got some great secret, only for it to be something not very exciting, after all. The most galling thing is that every so often, he actually does inadvertently give her something useful, compelling her to continue her aquaintance with the idiot.