[HPforGrownups] Lockhart - Gryffindor? Was: Re: Opposite of Gryffindor? - Nature of Sorting

[Magda Grantwich]

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--- dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Could you show me where he displays "reckless bravado", call it 
> whatever you like.  And without courage person cannot be 
> Gryffindor, right?
> 
> As we know, he did not do all those brave deeds he wrote about in 
> his books, and when the courage is needed from him ( to go to 
> Chambers) he runs away as typical Slytherin does to save his own 
> neck. :o)
> 
> Could you show me some canonical example of Lockhart courage,
> please?

Well, which one do you want, reckless bravado or courage?  Because
they're not the same thing at all.

I would argue that Lockhart's entire public career is one long
example of reckless bravado.  He's always running the risk that
someone, somewhere will prove that he didn't do what he said he did
or that he was in actual fact in Birmingham when he claimed to be in
Burma fighting Dark Creatures.  

I can't think of anything he did that was really courageous unless
you want to count agreeing to let Snape be his duelling opponent.

Lockhart is the Gryffindor you get when someone with few brains and
fewer morals values courage.  And Lockhart DOES value it - in other
people.  

Hannah suggests that Lockhart is the quintessential Slytherin but I
totally disagree: Slytherins know how to make alliances and
understand the importance of what we would call networking. 
Lockhart's own personal brand of centre-stage "me! me! me!" is pure
Gryffindor-gone-bad.

Magda


	
		
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