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The new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor -- bestselling author, five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award, and a fraud so complete that his only real talent is erasing the memories of people more competent than him.
Lockhart is pure vanity animated into human form. He name-drops, poses for cameras, and interprets every situation as being about him. He assigns his own books as textbooks, gives Harry unwanted fame-management advice, and runs a Valentine's Day card delivery service featuring dwarves dressed as cupids. His books -- Gadding with Ghouls, Break with a Banshee, Voyages with Vampires -- describe heroic adventures he never actually had. His only genuine skill is Memory Charms, which he used to track down the witches and wizards who actually performed the feats, erase their memories, and claim credit. He is spectacularly incompetent at everything else: he releases Cornish Pixies in class and can't recapture them, his Duelling Club demonstration with Snape is a humiliation, and when finally confronted with the Chamber of Secrets he tries to run. Forced into the Chamber by Harry and Ron, he grabs Ron's broken wand and attempts to Obliviate them both. The wand backfires. The Memory Charm rebounds. Lockhart is left permanently brain-damaged, cheerfully signing autographs in St Mungo's for the rest of his life, not knowing who he is. There is a kind of poetic justice in a man whose only skill was erasing memories being erased himself.
Wavy blonde hair, dazzling white smile, forget-me-not blue eyes. Wears flashy turquoise and lilac robes. Every classroom surface is covered with his own portraits, winking and preening. His teeth are blinding.
Also known as: Gilderoy, Professor Lockhart, Lockhart