MacDuff, Other Dark Wizards & Witches Professor LockhartLockhart Despite his ineptitude in most other areas of magic due to long-term neglect and misuse, Lockhart was skilled in Memory Charms, it being the one spell he focused on for his entire life, and was conniving enough to deceive other wizards and witches to thoroughly reveal their work to him before erasing their memories and claim the credits for himself.

[24], During Valentine's Day, Lockhart, wearing lurid pink robes, completely redecorated the Great Hall with pink flowers and raining heart-shaped confetti as a morale-booster to cheer up the mood against the Chamber of Secrets incident, much to the distaste of Ron Weasley and the teachers. He even claimed that he knew Rubeus Hagrid was guilty all along when the Minister for Magic arrested the gamekeeper, even though it was only done as a precaution. However, his arrogance did have limits and he recognised that Albus Dumbledore, his employer and Headmaster of Hogwarts, was a greater wizard than he was, as he never displayed that he believed himself to be above Dumbledore. Instead of trying to rescue Ginny, Lockhart attempted to run away from the school, but was caught by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley when they came to his office to give him information regarding the Chamber, and he accidentally revealed his life-style of fraudulence. He had no idea why but thought it was probably to do with him being good-looking. After learning from Hagrid that the gamekeeper hadn't read any of his books Lockhart was rather put out, and again when Hagrid told him Harry Potter was more famous than Lockhart without trying.

Some time later, Lockhart penned a final book called Who Am I?. This said, and despite his other failings, he never once demonstrates any pure-blood prejudice. " The adventure ends here, boys. Though almost immediately proven wrong, he stubbornly refused to retract his earlier claims, and continued to complain about how the extra security was tiring him out. [4], In the summer of 1992, he held a book signing at Flourish and Blotts. However, by the end of the year, when Lockhart revealed his own fraudulence and left school due to his accidental self-induced amnesia, pretty much every student gave their round of applause at the news.[26]. He also annoyed most of the teachers (some of whom remembered his time as a student)[1] by making unsolicited advice to look as though he was superior to them in every one of their fields while constantly proving otherwise with his consistently terrible performances. While Ron felt guilty in some way about putting Lockhart in this situation, Harry wasn't, since Lockhart was at fault for erasing his own memories when he was trying to erase theirs. [12], Harry and Ron force Lockhart to go to the Chamber with them, On 29 May, 1993, after the aforementioned occurrence, the other teachers, after giving him stony looks of hatred, told Lockhart to go down to the Chamber and deal with the monster, in response to his arrogance and many claims that he knew how to solve the problem. Harry attempted to tell him not to, but Lockhart said the wrong spell and Harry ended up boneless. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests, J.K. Rowling and the Live Chat, Bloomsbury.com, July 30, 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, https://harrypotterbooks.fandom.com/wiki/Gilderoy_Lockhart?oldid=24955, During the second-years first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson by Lockhart, he asked them to answer these things that he wrote about in books. His empty ambitiousness shown since his studentship, such as claiming to create a Philosopher's Stone before graduation, captain the England Quidditch team into championship before knuckling down to become the youngest Minister for Magic yet accomplishing none of which he speak, it is very likely his "secret ambition" and "ideal birthday present" were just the same meaningless claims to gain attention.