What if Hermione never caught Rita Skeeter?

In our new series #WizardTeam and The Time Room, we ask a guest to look at a particular moment in the original Harry Potter series, change it, and ask how the story would be different from that point on. In this episode, co-host Bayana Davis asks, what if Hermione never caught Rita Skeeter as an animagus in The Goblet of Fire?