What's with Lockhart, anyway?

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 168457

Bart:
Seriously, will the amateur psychiatrists in the group please analyze Gildy Locks? The JKR rule of scarily apropriate names should have clued us that he was phony (as in Gilded) and a sociopath (as in Locked Heart). But what puts him in a class outside of psychopathic The Mad Riddler is his being convinced that he can do what he claims he can do; he doesn't even TRY to hide his incompetence.


Bruce:
I can't track down the reference, but I seem to remember that there was a British psychologist by the name of Lockhart who did important research in the mid-20th C. on MEMORY.  I'm sure that's significant.

JKR on her website says that GL is a portrait of someone she knew once; NOT her first husband, as some have alleged, but someone else entirely.  She won't say whom. 


Bruce Alan Wilson

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