Lockhart - Yuck!

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19401

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Hall" <shall at s...> wrote:
> >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.

Oh, Tolkien does do that too, I think.  Gandalf's White opposing
number is playing his own game (shows up again at the end, too),
and so, after all, is Gollum.

Back on topic, I still think Snape has his own agenda in PS,
different from Dumbledore's.  But I really _must_ see GOF to
get the rest of their story so far...

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)