[HPforGrownups] Re: 7 Deadly Sins: Sloth (long)/Lockhart and Dudley

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 3367


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From: "Peg Kerr" <pkerr06 at attglobal.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: 7 Deadly Sins: Sloth (long)/Lockhart and
Dudley


> Amanda Lewanski wrote:
>
> > Susan McGee wrote:
> >

> >
> > Lockhart  has no pride. He'd stoop to anything to feed his appetite for
> > attention. Pomposity and pridefulness are not the same thing.
>
> Good point, Amanda.  In reading back my original messages, I saw that I
> initially put him under gluttony, but saw that it might be interpreted
> as lust, too, in the larger, overarching sense (a bottomless desire for
> adulation, rather than a bottomless appetite for adulation--see original
> posts to see the distinction).  Frankly, a lot of these sins muddle
> together in character motivations; categorization is not clearcut.

I would say that Lockhart can best be seen as a combination of covetnousness
and sloth: he envies the achievements of greater wizards and steals them for
himself, but, once having done so,  is content to merely coast along on his
own overinflated reputation without trying to augment his own magical
skills - e.g. after his fiasco with the pixies in his DADA
class, he does little more for the rest of the year than to have his
students re-read from his pseudo-memoirs.

As for pride, he is almost a polar opposite of Snape, who I think we'd all
agree is one proud fellow.

    - CMC