[HPforGrownups] Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 78165

 
 sylviablundell2001 -
 
I am surprisedthat Mrs. Weasley is still using this, considering that 
its author has not only been shown to be a complete fraud but has 
also placed her son in considerable danger. I would have expected 
her to have binned it, together with her back-numbers of Witch 
Weekly. Perhaps, though, he is only a fraud as a wizard, but is 
really hot at dealing with Doxys.
 
Me -

Well first of all since she would know the complete story of GL (presumably)
she would know that his books are only inaccurate in as far as they portray
*him* as the protagonist when actually the events happened to other people.
Secondly, the title of this book sounds very much to me like some
enterprising book publisher with a poorly selling guide to household pests
on his hands got Gilderoy to put his name to it, perhaps write a prologue
and have his picture stuck on the front. I can't see this as being the sort
of book GL would actually bother writing himself - doesn't fit with all the
vampire hunting style of adventure books we saw as the DADA curriculum in
CoS. In either case the book is probably perfectly accurate and Molly seems
the practical type who wouldn't get rid of a useful tool just because it has
the picture of a self-aggrandising, malicious idiot on the cover - maybe she
s ditched the dustjacket though :)

K