WCpYWLLmA/maxresdefault.jpg' alt='Alone In The Dark 1992 Pc' title='Alone In The Dark 1992 Pc' />Gilderoy Lockhart Harry Potter Wiki. Gilderoy Lockhart. Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, O. M. Third Class, b. January,121. 96. Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and later a famous wizarding celebrity who authored many books on dark creatures and his encounters with them. Prior to his tenure as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1. Order of Merlin, Third Class Honourary Member of the Dark Force Defence League and five time winner of Witch Weeklys Most Charming Smile Award. Alone In The Dark 1992 Pc 200' title='Alone In The Dark 1992 Pc 200' />He invented an Occamy egg yolk shampoo, which was too dangerous and expensive for open market it subsequently became his dream to market these products. His favourite colour is lilac. Lockhart never actually did any of the heroic acts he claimed he had done, but instead used his considerable talent in Memory Charms to force the actual people who had done them into forgetting what they did. Home Alone is primarily a comingofage story about an 8yearold boy named Kevin McCallister. He is the youngest of five children who is frequently tormented by his. Ill be playing Dishonored Death of the Outsider, which we started today on Kotakus Facebook page. Spoilers guys get mad when you jump on them. Ironically, Lockhart lost all his memory on 2. May, 1. 99. 3 due to a backfired Memory Charm cast by Ron Weasleys damaged wand. Lockhart then became a permanent resident of St Mungos Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. He was institutionalised in the same ward as Neville Longbottoms parents, the Janus Thickey Ward for permanent spell damage. Following his hospitalisation, he dictated his final book entitled Who Am I Biography. Early life 1. Its not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. Alone In The Dark 1992 PcmcYou want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog. Lockhart speaking about his life during a detention sessionsrcGilderoy Lockhart was born on 2. January,121. 96. Muggle man and a witch, and had two elder sisters, both of whom were Squibs. Lockharts mother loved him more than any of his siblings, and this, combined with the revelation of his wizardry and acceptance into Hogwarts, caused his vanity to grow like a tenacious weed. He and his mother forgot, in their excitement, that Hogwarts was a school for all British and Irish wizards, and thus his introduction into the school along with everyone else was, in his eyes, extremely dull. He entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1. James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans and Severus Snape. He was Sorted into Ravenclaw, but he did, however, narrowly escape from being Sorted into Slytherin. He had hoped to be greeted by whispers and stares, as in his mind he was already a fully fledged genius with extreme magical prowess the fact that he was merely ordinary, that more talented children were there, and that nobody was particularly impressed by his naturally wavy hair, disappointed him. He did have tremendous ability, and he was cleverer than most of his classmates, but he had a bad flaw in that he would not try unless he was the very best. Gilderoy did achieve good marks, and his teachers did think that, with hard work, he might be able to make something of himself, even if he fell short of his ambitions that he would freely share with anyone who bothered listening he told them that he would succeed in creating the Philosophers Stone before leaving school and that he intended to captain Englands Quidditch team to World Cup glory, before knuckling down to becoming Britains youngest Minister for Magic. His vanity was such that he valued learning not for education, but because it granted him attention he craved attention and prizes, and begged the Headmaster to start a school newspaper purely so he could see his own name in print. Part 7 Mechanical Vibration-Measurement, Evaluation And Limits on this page. When these exploits failed to grant him attention, he took to grander, more dramatic means of garnering attention. Though he had never been popular with the other students, he did manage to achieve small notoriety by carving his signature in twenty foot long letters into the Quidditch pitch earning him a weeks worth of detentions, shooting a hologram of his own face into the sky like the Dark Mark, and sending himself eight hundred Valentines, causing breakfast to be cancelled due to the number of droppings and feathers in the porridge. Career as an author 1. Why, I remember the time when I was writing my second bestseller, Gadding with Ghouls. I believed that the more exposure I got in the press, the better my career would progress. Trouble was, I became overexposed And it wasnt until I went mysteriously missing for three weeks, subsequently leaking the story to the Prophet that Id been captured by Trolls in the wilds of Stockton on Tees, that I managed to regain my former prominent position as the worlds most popular wizard. Lockhart talking with Harry Potter at Flourish and BlottssrcGilderoy Lockhart with one of his many accolades for his supposed achievements. After his graduation from Hogwarts in 1. Lockhart became an accomplished author, travelling to exotic parts of the world and, having mastered Memory Charms shortly after his graduation, tricking accomplished witches and wizards into revealing their greatest deeds and then erasing their memories. He then returned to Britain with a new book each time, all of them self promoting and filled with a wealth of invented details 1 known victims of his trickery included an Armenian warlock and a witch with a hairy chin. His books were very popular, and he reserved a special quill of peacock feather just for book signings. He also received many awards for his supposedly great deeds, and was invited to join the Dark Force Defence League as an honorary member, all the while managing to successfully hide his fraudulence. His former teachers, who were unaware of his status as a con artist, began to think that they might have misjudged him, due to his supposedly bravery and resilience to combat the Dark Arts. According to Lockhart, he initially believed that the more exposure he got in the press, the better his career would progress. By the time he was writing his second bestseller, Gadding with Ghouls, he became overexposed, something that damaged his popularity. He, then, went mysteriously missing for three weeks, after which he leaked to the Daily Prophet that he had been captured by trolls in the wilds of Stockton on Tees. The story boosted his popularity once again. Through this experience, he claimed that one must be sparing with ones public appearances, at first, as one might become overexposed. Magical Me is Lockharts autobiography. Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster during Lockharts time, happened to have known two of the wizards whose memories Lockhart erased, and had a shrewd and accurate idea what was happening. He correctly believed that dragging Lockhart into a normal, school atmosphere would reveal his fraudulence, and with a vacancy in Defence Against the Dark Arts having opened up in June 1. Lockhart a job at Hogwarts something Lockhart had not been too keen to do, as he saw how well his career as an author was progressing. Dumbledore slyly hinted that Harry Potter was a second year student at the school, and being a teacher to the famous Harry would propel Lockharts fame into the stratosphere. Ego and publicity hunger overruled caution, and Lockhart took the job. The other teachers remembered Lockhart as the obnoxious attention seeker back then, regardless of his later achievements, and were baffled at Dumbledore for inviting Lockhart to teach Minerva Mc. Gonagall, in particular, asked what possibly could be learned from such a vain, celebrity hungry man, in which the headmaster replied there was plenty to learn from even a bad teacher what not to do, how not to be. Lockhart and Harry Potter during the book signing at Flourish and Blotts. Lockhart thus became the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the 1. In August of 1. 99. Lockhart went to Flourish and Blotts to announce his employment it was there that he met Harry Potter for the first time.