Why I think Lockhart will get out of St Mungo

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Corey said:
2 The curse that he got hit with was not a extremely bad curse so
while it did cause distress and damage it should not keep him in
St.Mungo for the rest of his life.

Gerry said: 
Actually it was an extremely bad curse. His memory charms were good
enough to take credit from lots of people and write books about their
heroic deeds passing them off as his own. His memory charms had to be
permanent for that, because otherwise he would have huge, huge 
trouble if these truly brave people found out what had happened to 
them. They would at the very least visit his doorstep to get their 
share of the money he made... He could also not take the risk of Ron 
and Harry ever remembering what really happened, because that would 
be the end of his reputation and of course taking away people's 
memory is criminal. So I don't think he is too long in St. Mungo's. 
If he ever comes out he will be very lucky, because what he cast was 
a charm ment to last for life, only this time he hit the wrong 
person. 

Janelle:
Keep in mind that the reason Lockhart got hit with the memory charm 
in the first place is that he was using Ron's broken wand.  It seems 
likely to me that his condition is much worse than that of others he 
performed the same charm on, due to some complication with the 
wand.  At the same time, it is possible that he would get his memory 
back or at least be able to start over and be released from St. 
Mungo's.  While possible, however, I doubt that we'll see this 
happen, it could possibly be mentioned, perhaps in the last chapter, 
but I can't see any plot points that would make Lockhart's presence 
necessary.