Rita Skeeter was a wizarding journalist best known for her poison pen articles for the Daily Prophet and her harsh biographies. Skeeter's Quick-Quotes Quill was always working hard as she penned venomous articles about well known witches and wizards, many of which were concocted from a variety of lies, make-believe and conjecture. She utilised a number of underhand tactics in order to gain the insider information she was after, including becoming an illegal Animagus and the use of Veritaserum.