Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests

[dudemom_2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 78177

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
>  
>  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.
>  
> K replied -
> 
> 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 ditched the 
dustjacket though :)   > K

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Don't forget Gilderoy habitually stole his information from others 
so the contents are probably true and very usable - He just took 
credit for it. 

Dudemom_2000

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