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The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Lockhart is known for many great deeds, which he writes about at length in his many memoirs. However, over the course of the book he is shown to be more and more inept at magic, until it becomes clear that Lockhart is a fraud. He is extremely self-centered and often assumes Harry is after the same fame and fortune that Lockhart himself enjoys, despite the fact that Harry has no real interest in being in the spotlight. At the end of the book, Lockhart confirms the fact that he is a fraud when the teachers try to send him into the Chamber of Secrets to rescue Ginny and instead he tries to run away. Harry and Ron confront him as he packs, and Lockhart reveals that he never did any of the things in his books; he merely found the people who had accomplished these feats, asked them to recount their experiences in detail, and then wiped their memories with Memory Charms. Harry and Ron then disarm him and force him to go to the Chamber with them; when he grabs Ron’s broken wand and tries to wipe his memory, Ron’s wand backfires and Lockhart’s memory is wiped instead. At the end of the book, Dumbledore announces that Lockhart will not be teaching again next year.
Gilderoy Lockhart Quotes in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Chapter 6
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“Let me just say that handing out signed pictures at this stage of your career isn’t sensible — looks a tad bigheaded, Harry, to be frank. There may well come a time when, like me, you’ll need to keep a stack handy wherever you go, but” — he gave a little chortle — “I don’t think you’re quite there yet.”
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Chapter 15
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But Lockhart’s disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, irritated Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart’s stupid face. Instead he contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let’s do it tonight.
Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.
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Gilderoy Lockhart Quotes in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Chapter 6
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“Let me just say that handing out signed pictures at this stage of your career isn’t sensible — looks a tad bigheaded, Harry, to be frank. There may well come a time when, like me, you’ll need to keep a stack handy wherever you go, but” — he gave a little chortle — “I don’t think you’re quite there yet.”
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Chapter 15
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But Lockhart’s disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, irritated Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart’s stupid face. Instead he contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let’s do it tonight.
Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.
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