Lockhart's "mission"

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., illyana delorean <illyana at m...> wrote:
> i am all for book references (and have used them many times in the 
> past), but i was strictly talking about the movie when i wrote that 
> post. in the movie, there is no scene in the faculty lounge, and 
the 
> teachers' conversation is much shorter than in the book. plus, i 
> cannot remember anyone saying anything about lockhart being "out 
from 
> under our feet" in the movie. 

Not in so many words, but it's definitely implied in Alan Rickman's 
and Maggie Smith's behavior during the scene.  There's a definite 
subtext of "We know you've been blowing smoke this entire time, and 
now you have to either admit it or get out of our way" in their 
performance here.  Besides, if the teachers *hadn't* given up on 
Ginny, wouldn't they have given the job to anyone but Lockhart?
Please note that I'm not saying the faculty didn't care or wasn't 
distraught over what happened, I'm just saying they accepted that 
they were powerless in this instance.  Which they are--nobody knows 
where the Chamber is, how to get into it even if they did know where 
it is, or what they would be facing on the other side.  There was, 
quite simply, nothing that they could do, and they knew it.

~Christi