The paper resembling a newspaper in Lily's hand was published by a newly established entertainment magazine in the school. The magazine was spearheaded by Skeeter, who had organized a few gossip-loving Gryffindor girls to found it together.
Skeeter was one of the most thoroughly disliked people at Hogwarts. Ever since starting school, she had brazenly displayed her penchant for prying into and discussing other people's private lives. Her lingering figure could be found in every hidden, or even semi-hidden, corner of Hogwarts. It seemed she could neither eat nor sleep unless she dug up some sort of secret.
Yet, at the same time, gossiping is human nature; thus, while people loathed her, they could not bear to stay away from such a master of fabricating gossip.
Chapter 19