[HPforGrownups] Lockhart - Yuck!

[Susan Hall]

No: HPFGUIDX 19390

>Am I the only one who really dislikes Lockhart?

No.  Lockhart, IMO is interesting and important because he is completely,
unmitigatedly and irredeemably evil (oh yes he is.  Just read that scene in
the lair of the Basilisk.  He's a professional brainwasher and he is quite
happy to leave an 11 year old kid to a horrible death if it will sell him
more books) and  *still *nothing to do with Voldemort.  Which is where
Rowling scores massively over her predecessors, tolkein and all.  Because in
other works you have the personification of evil, and all the evil
characters are working for him.  The idea that you could have little clumps
of evil off on a frolic of their own never even occurred to them
(manicheeism rules, black or white).  I think he's great.  And nothing is
too bad to happen to him.

Susan