Why buy 5 sets of Lockhart's book?

cunning_spirit cunning_spirit at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 25 00:35:03 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 113794

> professorfionafawkes says:
> My theory is that since Molly takes such a fancy to Lockhart, that 
> maybe she doesn't have so much hesitation to purchase Lockhart's 
> books for the kids.  She herself swears by the sets that she has  
> (thinking back to her looking up what Lockhart has to say about de-
> gnoming the garden when this has obviously been done often enough at 
> the Burrow not to warrant needing to look it up every time.)  Just my 
> two knuts on the matter.

Yeah, and look how effective Lockhart's de-gnoming advise is! The little beggars just keep 
coming back!  

It makes me think of how many self help books in the real world are just pretty bits of 
marketing hype, containing little of real practical value for the readers. They serve for little 
more than mediums for convincing the gullible just what a wonderful smart bloke the 
author is.

-cunning spirit






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