- "Hey....my eyes aren't 'glistening with the ghost of my past'!"
- — Harry Potter looking at Rita Skeeter's Quick-Quotes Quill notes[src]
A Quick-Quotes Quill is a quill that writes exaggerated answers to interview questions. It interprets what a person is saying to what it thinks should be written, often resulting in yellow journalism. Rita Skeeter uses a long, acid green one when interviewing people for the Daily Prophet. Whatever its origins may be, Rita Skeeter knows that not everyone approves of its use, as she hurriedly hides it from Albus Dumbledore. To use it, Skeeter sucks on the end and places it upright on parchment. In 1997, Rita Skeeter mentions in her interview concerning Dumbledore's posthumous biography that the Quick-Quotes Quill helped her to write the book so quickly after his death.
Rita Skeeter and her Quick-Quotes Quill.
Behind the scenes
- "Attractive blonde Rita Skeeter, forty-three, whose savage quill has punctured many inflated reputations…"
- — Quick-Quotes Quill transcription[src]
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rita Skeeter has a acid green-coloured quill that floats rather characteristically beside her writing on a notebook as Rita interviews Harry in an old broom cupboard.
The Rita Skeeter's Notebook and the Quick-Quotes Quill
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Template:2nd
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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