Unforgivables (was: Re: WW Ethics...)

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 58881

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "guardianapcelt" 
<guardianapcelt at y...> wrote:
>Lockhart is seriously underestimated. The man may be a horrible 
> wizard, but he managed to trick multiple powerful wizards and 
witches 
> into telling him their stories. His problem is that he has become 
so 
> full of himself that he actually thinks he can pull off the deeds 
he 
> recorded in his works. But would he be dense enough to mention a 
> nonexistant curse in front of Dumbledore as the source for a fairly 
> substantial issue with Filtch's apparently dead cat? His employer, 
> the man acknowledged as the most powerful sorceror in the world? 
> That's a little too blatant an act of stupidity, even for him. Like 
> as not he'd heard about the curse, knew the symptoms from second 
hand 
> information, and was trying to impress everyone with his knowledge.


I innermurk would like to add:
I've always thought that this is one reason DD hired Lockhart. Yes, 
he was a braggart, and yes he played himself up a lot, but the 
methods and the deeds were TRUE. Just not originally or actually done 
by Lockhart. Even if DD knew before he came to the school that he was 
a totally incompetant wizard, and a fraud, he still had the knowledge 
of how those things and spells were preformed. 
People assume that no one learned anything in Lockhart's class all 
year. We know that the trio don't think they did, except not to set 
pixies loose in a room. BUT the theories were there, and they have 
the texts to help them if they just put forth a little effort. Harry 
was enacting all those scenes with Lockhart all the time, maybe 
something stuck with him subconciously.

If I'm honest with myself, I think Lockhart's class would've been an 
entertaining one to be in. More than Quirrell's anyway. We know that 
Lupin and Moody used practical lessons, but we haven't heard about 
Quirrell having any practical ones. Lockhart's one disatrous one led 
to his particular style of (proabably inneffective) teaching. If you 
weren't Harry forced to help re-inact everything, it would really be 
like watching a play every day. It's not totally inconceivable that 
someone learned something from these.

Innermurk (realizing this is the second post which sounds as if I'm 
defending Lockhart, but I'm really trying to defend DD)