Gilderoy Lockhart- Name: Gilderoy Ainsworth Lockhart
Lexicon Entry - Nickname(s)/alias(es), if any:
- Physical description/characteristics:
- Sex: Male
- DOB/Age: May 11, 1965 - 53 in 2017
- Family ethnicity: English Magical
- Hair color/description: Golden blonde (now provided by a bottle)
- Body type: Medium build, tall, handsome
- Face (outstanding features): Perfect hair and teeth
- Diction, accent: S. English
- Habits, mannerisms: Talks about himself a lot; smiling always
- Normal clothing: Robes of any number of striking colors
- Life experience
- Education (be brief): OWLs and a few NEWTs, HSWW
- Vocation/occupation: Charms teacher, HSWW
- Social status and finances: barely middle class, thanks to this new job
- Marital status: Single
- Relation to others: former patient of Will Jacobson
- Personality traits
- Character flaw(s): vain, would give anything for fame, deceptive
- Character strength(s): Good at memory charms
- Fear(s): being cast aside and neglected
- Ambition(s): to regain his fame (although this is very much concealed; see backstory below)
- Obsession(s): a return to fame
- Recreation/hobbies: gobstones, hair care
- Favorite place(s): his chambers in the castle
- Miscellaneous
- Wand: Willow 10", unicorn tail
- Possessions (relevant): a complete collection of the works of Gilderoy Lockhart
- Pets: 3 or 4 puffskeins, received as 'gifts'. None of them have any real names, because he doesn't like them, but he feigns forgetting their names and calls them different names on different occasions.
- Taste in books, music, etc: Reads fluff magazines about famous people like Witch Weekly
- Food preferences: Loves a good gin fizz
- Any other: See Backstory below
The Lockhart-Jacobson BackstoryJacobson, working as a Healer on St. Mungo’s closed ward, tries an experimental unapproved cure on Lockhart. Lockhart appears restored to his original mental capacities – remembering everything – for a couple of weeks, but then lapses back into to a more befuddled state, having decided that being a bit of a half-brain he will be better able to exact his revenge.
Jacobson, although he is mystified by the relapse, decides that Lockhart is well enough to leave St. Mungo’s. Jacobson’s wife, Alison Wiles, has just taken a job as the astronomy teacher at Hogwarts, and through her he discovers that there’s an opening for a charms teacher that the headmistress is having difficulty filling it. He suggest to Lockhart that he apply,
McGonagall is in dire straits for a Charms teacher. Although she has reservations about his abilities, she also fills guilty about what happened to him during his previous tenure at Hogwarts. She gives him the job.
Jacobson becomes worried that Lockhart might either spill the beans about his illegal cure or might have a more serious relapse. Wiles assures him that she will keep an eye on Lockhart, but Jacobson continues to worry. He decides to quit his job and move to Hogwarts with his wife. Wiles argues that it will seem very suspicious for a high-profile healer to just up and quit his job. Knowing that the current Transfiguration teacher has been thinking about a sabbatical, she convinces him/her to take it this year. When McGonagall starts looking for a replacement, Wiles suggests her husband, and the deal is sealed.
Lockhart, of course, is only pretending to be muddled. In reality, he's using it as a cover to plot his return to fame...
He has at least one puffskein around him all the time, usually provided to him by Wiles & Jacobson (for their soothing nature, as part of his cure and recovery) and by Luna, who just thinks he loves them.
This post has been edited by StarWalker: Jan 21 2005, 05:44 PM
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