Harry/Voldemort showdown in 2 years

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 77677

Donna:
>I can appreciate your thinking here.  But does that explain 
>Lockhart?  He is not a squib.  He can perform magic.  He said himself
>that he was particularly good at Memory Charms.  (Not sure if that 
>was a quote from the book or the movie or both, as I do not have CoS 
> handy).  

It's from the book, Chapter 16: The Chamber of Secrets pg 298 in my 
copy (US paperback)

"Harry, Harry," said Lockhart shaking his head impatiently, "it's not 
nearly as simple as that.  There was work involved.  I had to track 
these people down.  Ask them exactly how they managed to do what they 
did.  Then I had to put a Memory Charm on them so they wouldn't 
remember doing it.  If there's one thing I pride myself on, it's my 
Memory Charms." 


And on the original topic, aside from the picky need of mine to 
verify things (at least for my own piece of mind) on the movie/book 
contamination, I think Gilderoy was pretty awful at most magic 
because it would involve actual work.  Notice, the one thing he 
mastered is the one that allows him to take all the credit for 
fantastic acomplishments without doing anything himself.



~Margaret