Gilderoy Lockhart

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Gilderoy Lockhart
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Hair colour	Blond
Eye colour	Blue
Distinguishing features	Incredibly vain
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Film portrayer	Kenneth Branagh
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Word / Name Origins

Gilderoy from the French or German gilderoy, golden king.
Gilderoy is a highwayman known for being handsome.
Gilderoy may also come from the word gilded, which is defined as having a "pleasing, showy appearance, which covers something of little worth."
Lockhart is a world renowned cognitive psychologist who's particular interest is in the study of memory and levels of processing. He did a lot of research in this area in the late 1970s.
Lockhart is a possibly play on words as he seems to have so many women's "heart locked" on him.

Gilderoy Lockhart is a successful author who wrote about all the heroic adventures he has had over the years. In Harry's second year, Gilderoy Lockhart is the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. At the end of the book, however, it is revealed that Lockhart wrote books about what other people had done, and then put it in his own name. He then would preform a memory charm on the witch/wizard so they "wouldn't go blabbing." He reluctantly followed Harry and Ron into the Chamber of Secrets. Not wanting to face the basilisk, he proceeded to steal Ron's malfuntioning wand. He has been living on the fourth floor of St. Mungo's since the end of that year after the faulty wand preformed a disastrous memory charm that addled his memory. Recent achievements include learning how to do joined up writing. Meanwhile, he appears to have been forgotten much about the wizarding world- however, he does not seem to have forgotten his fame and is still quite narcisstic.

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J.K. Rowling's "Gilderoy Lockhart"

J.K. Rowling has said that she based Gilderoy Lockhart on someone she has met before. She frequently denies rumours that she had relations with this man, insisting that he was intensly irritanting, much like the character in the book.

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