[HPforGrownups] Lockhart's house

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 117768

--- Hannah <hannahmarder at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
 
> I was just wondering, does anyone know what house Gilderoy Lockhart
> was in?  The comments he makes in CoS before the first Quidditch 
> match suggest he favours Gryffindor.  But surely he wouldn't have 
> been in Gryffindor, being an utter coward.  Ravenclaw?  Not clever 
> enough.  Hufflepuff?  Not loyal or hardworking.  I'd have him down 
> as the perfect Slytherin - ruthlessly determined to be famous, and 
> not afraid to use any means (including destroying the minds of 
> heroic witches and wizards without any qualms) in order to get
> there.


There's no reason he couldn't have been a Gryffindor.  Pettigrew was
a Gryffindor, after all.  The flip side of bravery is bravado - a
false bravery hiding something much less.

And properly administered memory charms don't "destroy the mind",
despite what happened to him.  

Magda


		
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