More Thoughts About Lockhart (LONG)

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No: HPFGUIDX 27514

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., prefectmarcus at y... wrote:   
> 
> If Lockhart had simply stayed being a celebrity, pedaling his books, 
> and winning his smile contests; I doubt we would dislike him so 
> much.  There you can be selfish.  A teacher needs to be selfless.
> 
> To sum up: Trelawney, you can respect.  Lockhart, you can't.>

First I must say that I very much enjoyed Cindy's comments about 
Lockhart.  His caricature-ness drove me up the wall when I first read 
CoS and it still does now, but Cindy pointed out quite well that there 
is more to dislike about Lockhart than meets the eye.  :-)

As for what Prefectmarcus wrote I'll have to grudgingly agree.  I 
don't like Trelawney at all, but she does teach and she does know her 
stuff.  One can be full of s**t and still know hiser subject very 
well.  I *don't* think Trelawney saw much of anything in Harry's tea 
leaves, but she knows how to set up the tea-leaf reading, crystal-ball 
gazing and all the other kinds of things one uses to make predictions.  
Lockhart was a bumbling moron through and through.

So there.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who worked with a teacher last year who made 
Lockhart look as capable as Dumbledore  
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