Lockhart mindwiped a bunch of people to steal credit for their good deeds. He ended up attempting to mindwipe Harry and Ron. He's evil.
Evil, perhaps, but also correct about some important points. If you compare his back story to Harry Potter's interactions with the public in the remainder of the series, Lockhart does handle fame better and if he'd taken credit (and if there hadn't been a series of additional threats waiting in the wings that he had no reason to expect) it would have been better for Harry to have been ignorant of his own involvement.
Lockhart's fame-sink argument may well have been just as correct for all those other, earlier people he swindled.
But I agree that Rowling meant him to be irredeemably evil.
If you compare his back story to HJPEV's interactions with the public in the remainder of the series
What does the EV stand for in this case?
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Lockhart does handle fame better and if he'd taken credit (and if there hadn't been a series of additional threats waiting in the wings that he had no reason to expect) it would have been better for HJPEV to have been ignorant of his own involvement.
He tried to mindwipe them before they actually killed the basilisk. And I always read
..."The adventure ends here, boys!" he said. "I shall take a
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