Gilderoy lockhart - JKR's ex???

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 110797

After reading JKR latest interview
(http://www.mugglenet.com/mediasp/2004/august/jkrinterview.shtml) I
think there is a strong possibility that the character was based on
none other than her ex-husband. We don't know much of him other than
she has been with him only a short time and left him behind to the
uncertain life of a poor single mom before or shortly after the birth
of her daughter. If I remember correctly he at one time tried to
falsely claim to have helped/contributed to her early work on the
Potter series. JKR's description of the model for Lockhart suggests
that the person hurt her deeply and that she was seriously involved
with him for two years (although that phrase is slightly ambiguous and
could refer to Lockhart rather than the model)...

The quote (from mugglenet):

JKR:

"The only character who is deliberately based on a real person is
Gilderoy Lockhart. [Laughter]. Maybe he is not the one that you would
think of, but I have to say that the living model was worse.
[Laughter]. He was a shocker! The lies that he told about adventures
that he'd had, things he'd done and impressive acts that he had
committed
 He was a shocking man. I can say this quite freely because
he will never in a million years dream that he is Gilderoy Lockhart. I
am always frightened that he is going to turn up one day. He is just
one of those people from your past whom you feel you have never quite
shaken off. I will look up one day at a signing and he will say,
"Hello, Jo". [Laughter]. Other people have contributed the odd
characteristic, such as a nose, to a character, but the only character
who I sat down and thought that I would base on someone is Gilderoy
Lockhart. It made up for having to endure him for two solid years."

Salit