Playing Up Lockhart's Incompetency (WAS: Deletion of Funny Lines)

[erisedstraeh2002]

Fyre Wood wrote:

> I wanted to hear not only  those lines mentioned above, but perhaps 
> some others:
> 
> IE: "Oops, I guess my wand got a little over excited."
> I don't know *why* I like this line so much, but it's just like 
> Lockhart to say something like this. I think that perhaps having 
> Lockhart look like a complete moron in the movie during Dueling 
> Club might have been funny--and adding that line would have had me 
> (and others I'm sure) rolling in the aisles.

Now me:

I agree with you here.  They really could have played up Lockhart's 
incompetency during the Duelling Club scene, and they didn't.  For 
one, where was Lockhart's bow "with much twirling of his hands"?  But 
I did love how the girls sighed with pleasure when they caught 
Lockhart's cloak.  That was classic!

~Phyllis