Evil (was Lockhart) - "V" - West Ham

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 19591

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Vicky Ra" <andromache815 at h...> wrote:
> Evil takes many forms besides cruelty.  Lockhart doesn't take 
pleasure 
> in causing suffering as such, but he does cause it. 
> 
> Along these lines, I'm sure all of us have been mean to others, 
whether it was because we were having a bad day or were young and 
foolish, but I think we look back on those moments with pangs of 
guilt and regret. Lockheart felt no such guilt, which makes him evil.
> 
> Vicky
> 
Actually, you might have unintentionally struck a chord off the point 
I was trying in my clumsy, sleep deprived way, to make.

"I think we look back on those moments with pangs of guilt and 
regret." 

We don't know if Gilderoy Lockhart regretted what he did to the 
wizards and witches he stole from. He may feel bad about it but still 
think the riches "salve his guilt."  Again, self delusion.  

We don't know enough about his past, do we, to know whether he went 
to Hogwarts originally, or Durmstrang, or Beauxbatons -- so we're not 
clear on whether his teaching was of the kind variety or of the "get 
them before they get you" variety. 

And, having been memory wiped after his attempts to mindwipe the 
boys, Gilderoy can't look back on these with guilt or regret now.

Unless, on having his memory restored slowly, he does a 'REGARDING 
HENRY' turnaround, and realizes what a snake in the grass he used to 
be. 

Which would be an interesting development of character.

Indigo