Lockhart - Yuck!

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 19371

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> Am I the only one who really dislikes Lockhart?  Because I do. 
When 
> trying to figure out why CoS is my least favorite in the series, I 
> feel that Lockhart has a lot to do with that.  I know he is comic 
> relief for many and he very well serves the purpose of teaching the 
> lesson that looks aren't everything, but boy, did I find him 
annoying!
> He was too exaggerated for me.  I just hated the way he kept saying 
> "Harry, Harry," because he thought Harry wanted to be in the 
limelight 
> all the time.  To me it isn't amusing when characters deliberately 
> ignore other characters' opinions, needs, wishes, whatever, and 
that's 
> what Lockhart did.  I know there are all too many people like that 
in 
> reality, but in reality people who don't listen to me or take the 
time 
> to understand me are people I want to avoid.  They're certainly not 
> people I find funny.
> 
> I think that Trelawney is a much better example of someone in a 
> position of authority who should be questioned.  Lockhart clearly 
> never knew what he was doing, but Trelawney does know her
Divination 
> quite well.  She is also prone to the occasional correct
prediction, 
> which makes us wonder how real or fake she is - I like the 
uncertainty 
> of it.  Lockhart was too in my face.  Besides, I'm not into the 
blond, 
> chisled face, bright toothed looks anyway!
> 
> Just my two knuts.
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw******************************
Jenny, Jenny, Jenny......
It is a measure of JKR's writing skills that Lockheart as a character 
cuts so very close to the bone.  If he were not so well constructed a 
character, his flaws would not set our teeth on edge the way they do. 
 I am reminded of Sigouney Weaver, an excellent actress who has 
portrayed some unsympathetic characters.  I find myself disliking her 
personally, and I have to tell myself that she is acting a character 
in a film.  So it is with Gilderoy, the man we love to loathe.

Haggridd