GILDEROY LOCKHART, A GLAMOROUS STYLISH FAKE

Professor Gilderoy Lockhart

Today, The Stones have attended class. They have chosen Professor Gilderoy Lockhart to be their teacher during an intensive lesson. They have discovered that, perhaps, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart is not this fantastic wizard that he believes to be but, at least, they have enjoyed a lot with his extreme arrogance and exceeding vanity, conceit, egomania, narcissism and self-obsession.

It is very good and sane to be surrounded by good people but it is also very interesting to know selfish people like Professor Gilderoy Lockhart because these experiences serve to know what kind of attitudes we do not want to follow and accept.

The Grandma has also started to attach in her posts Cambridge Exams Models (Key English Test A2) to test and practice.

Professor Gilderoy Lockhart (b. 26 January, 1964) is a half-blood wizard, a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and later a famous wizarding celebrity who authored many books on dark creatures and his supposed encounters with them.

Prior to his tenure as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he received many prestigious awards, such as Order of Merlin, Third Class; Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defence League; and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. He invented an Occamy egg yolk shampoo, which was too dangerous and expensive for open market; it subsequently became his dream to market these products. His favourite colour was lilac.

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Lockhart never actually did any of the heroic acts he claimed he had done, but instead used his considerable talent in Memory Charms to force the actual people who had done them into forgetting what they did. Ironically, Lockhart lost all of his memory on 29 May, 1993 due to a backfired Memory Charm cast by Ron Weasley's damaged wand.

Lockhart then became a permanent resident of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. He was institutionalised in the same ward as Neville Longbottom's parents, the Janus Thickey Ward for permanent spell damage. Following his hospitalisation, he dictated his final book entitled Who Am I?.

Gilderoy Lockhart was born on 26 January, 1964, to a Muggle man and a witch, and had two elder sisters, both of whom were Squibs. Lockhart's mother loved him more than any of his siblings, and this, combined with the revelation of his wizardry and acceptance into Hogwarts, caused his vanity to grow like a tenacious weed. He and his mother forgot, in their excitement, that Hogwarts was a school for all British and Irish wizards, and thus his introduction into the school along with everyone else was, in his eyes, extremely dull.

He entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1975 and was four years below James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, and Severus Snape. He was Sorted into Ravenclaw, but he did, however, narrowly escape from being sorted into Slytherin.

The Stones & Professor Gilderoy Lockhart

He had hoped to be greeted by whispers and stares, as in his mind he was already a fully-fledged genius with an exceptional magical prowess; the fact that he was merely ordinary, that more talented children were there, and that nobody was particularly impressed by his naturally wavy hair, disappointed him. 

He did have above-average abilities, and he was cleverer than most of his classmates, but he had a bad flaw in that he would not try unless he was confident that he was the best of whichever particular team, group, or class he happened to be with at the time.

Gilderoy did achieve good marks and his teachers did think that, with hard work, he might be able to make something of himself. Even if he fell short of his ambitions that he would freely share with anyone who bothered listening, he told them that he would succeed in creating the Philosopher's Stone before leaving school and that he intended to captain England’s Quidditch team to World Cup glory, before knuckling down to becoming Britain’s youngest Minister for Magic. Despite this, at some point during his education he managed to play as Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.

His vanity was such that he valued learning not for education, but because it granted him attention; he craved attention and prizes, and begged the Headmaster to start a school newspaper purely so he could see his own name in print. When these exploits failed to grant him attention, he took to grander, more dramatic means of garnering attention.

Though he had never been popular with the other students, he did manage to achieve small notoriety by carving his signature in twenty foot long letters into the Quidditch pitch, earning him a weeks' worth of detentions, creating a spell that shot a hologram of his own face into into the sky in imitation of the Dark Mark, and sending himself eight-hundred Valentines, causing breakfast to be cancelled due to the number of droppings and feathers in the porridge. He increasingly devoted his talents to insincere shortcuts and cowardly dodges, focused on attention and neglecting true learning.

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During the course of his magical education, the school fell under the threat of the sinister defensive measures of the fabled Cursed Vaults after one of his peers tampered with them, although Lockhart was not known to have been impacted in any way during the ordeal.

Sometime in his life, he invented a shampoo that guaranteed lustrous locks of hair, one of his few claims that proved to be true. Due to its main ingredient being too dangerous and expensive to procure, it was never produced for mass marketing due to the fact no one was going to risk themselves for something as superficial as hair care. Since then, it was Lockhart's dream to market these overly-expensive products.

Being the only willing applicant for the jinxed position, Gilderoy Lockhart became Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Professor Gilderoy Lockhart

His classroom and office at Hogwarts were decorated with pictures and portraits of himself, before the class started, Fred thought that the teacher must be a fan of Lockhart, for which he was certainly correct, which moved and smiled, there was even one of himself as a classical artist painting another medieval version portrait of himself. He also decorated the office with copies of his publications.

Gilderoy Lockhart was a foppish, handsome wizard with wavy blonde hair and particularly straight and shiny teeth. He was known for wearing flamboyant, flashy and incredibly extravagant robes in a wide assortment of colours.

However, during his moments of cowardice, Lockhart's handsomeness was lost, as he looked weak-chinned and foolish in the midst of his ineptitude.

Gilderoy Lockhart's defining characteristics were his extreme arrogance and exceeding vanity, conceit, egomania, narcissism and self-obsession. He was a voracious self-promoter and claimed to have done many great deeds, though in actuality he was a fraud and merely took credit for other wizards and witches' accomplishments and whose claims about himself were for the most part nothing but conceit, self-praise, and vanity and whose claims about other things were idle speculations, gross exaggerations, and pure sensationalism.

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Gilderoy was born in the Lockhart family, with a Muggle father, witch mother, and two elder sisters, both of whom were Squibs. His mother loved him more than she did her two daughters, which, when combined with Gilderoy's revealed wizardry and acceptance into Hogwarts, lead his vanity to grow like a weed.

Both mother and son were too excited to remember that Hogwarts accepts all magical students from Britain and Ireland, and she was as deluded as her son in thinking that he was special amongst all children of his age. Due to Mrs Lockhart's overly love and pampering, she completely spoiled and deluded her son, which would lead to a very negative impact on his future.

Gilderoy is an Irish and Scottish name that refers back to Gilroy, which means son of the red-haired servant, or son of the king's servant.

Interestingly, Gilderoy is similar to the term gilded, which means both to cover something in a thin layer of gold to appear valuable and golden, when in reality it isn't, and wealthy and privileged, both of which apply well to Gilderoy's character.

J. K. Rowling found the name Lockhart on a war memorial at a church in Edinburgh, and found it to be a hollow kind of name, befitting of the character.

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Allow me to introduce you to your new

Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; me.

Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class,

Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League,

and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that;

I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him. 

Gilderoy Lockhart