Gilderoy Lockhart---a couple ofhorrid thoughts

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 24479

You know, it occurs to me that if Lockhart had been even more ruthless than
he was, he could have used his charisma for even worse things than he did.
Just imagine how many students he could have seduced, if he had been
inclined to do so.

Another Lockhart-related question:  If he had been exposed as the fraud and
liar he was, _without_ losing his memory in the process, do you think he'd
ever have been let out of Azkaban?  At the _very_ least, I'd expect a wizard
court to order him to pay heavy reimbursement to the wizards and witches
whose deeds he'd "appropriated," and his publishers would probably also be
out for a big chunk of his hide.  As for trying to leave Ginny there to just
die---I think that if Molly and Arthur Weasley found out about _that,_ all
of a sudden Azkaban wouldn't look like such a bad place to be---out in the
ocean and _safe._

Molly Weasley *speaking very slowly and deceptively gently*:

Let me see if I've got this straight...you _knew_ where my baby daughter
was...and you proposed to _leave_ her there to _die?_

*a beat*

I'LL KILL YOU!  I'LL MOIDILIZE YOU!  I'LL RIP YOUR LUNGS OUT AND MAKE A
MILKSHAKE WITH THEM!  GIVE ME MY WAND!