Lockhart's "mission"

[illyana delorean]

>christi wrote in response to andy's comment supporting my comment (!):
>
>I agree, except on Lockhart being given responsibility for returning
>Ginny.  My impression from both book and film was that the faculty a)
>kind of figured out that Lockhart was full of it (I'm sure Snape did,
>at the very least), and b) had given Ginny up for dead or worse
>already.  Sending him off on the "rescue mission" was pretty much an
>excuse to get him out of their hair, and little more than that.
>

I highly doubt that the faculty would give Ginny up "for dead or 
worse" - think about who you're talking about. I could possibly see 
Snape not caring (although, in my opinion, I think that Snape *does* 
have a heart), but there is no way that McGonnagal or Dumbledore 
(especially Dumbledore) would ever give up on a student who was in 
danger, even if there was a 99% chance that the student was dead. I 
do agree that Lockhart's mission was most likely a ploy to get rid of 
him, but Ron and Harry probably did not know that, and might have 
thought that the rest of the faculty was, in fact, replying on 
Lockhart to rescue Ginny. I think that's why Ron was so upset.

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