Did anyone figure out Rita Skeeter’s secret when they read GoF

I was just a kid when I first read the book so not smart enough to solve any mysteries, but rereading again there are clues that the reader could put together (like Hermione) to figure it out. There's the big ones like bugging (the muggle type) and the mention of bugs being present before a Rita article appears, but I've noticed others that I don't recall (I've not finished it yet, just got to Crouch in the forest) being part of Hermione's solution and maybe in there for the reader.

What prompted me to post that is Harry saying Snape couldn't have beat him and Dumbledore to the forest unless he could turn himself into a bat. To me that was JKR putting the idea of an unregistered animagus into the reader's head. There's a lot of other references to animagi - Sirius of course and also Harry and Ron joking about him becoming a goldfish. Animagi, specifically unregistered ones, keep being mentioned.

I haven't noticed anything that I think would help you suss out Moody, but I keep reading things that to me are designed to guide you towards the Rita Skeeter thing. Did you figure out the clues when you first read the book?