Lockhart's role Was: Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION Chamber of Secrets Ch. 6

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> Alla:
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But if she brought Lockhart in specifically to poke fun at RL person, sigh it strikes me as a bit pathetic. 
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Annemehr
Well, I doubt it's as bad as all that.  I mean, (1)there had to be *some* DADA teacher, and (2)apparently he was not critical to the plot this time.  So that leaves a wide open hole for her to fill.  Her first decision may well have been to make him incompetent, or a fraud.  There had to be something wrong with him, because of the curse.

Modeling him after a certain person may have come slightly later.  I just wonder if that part eventually became a prime factor in her writing of him, all the more easily so because he is really just a minor character.

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