[ SECRET POST #5406 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5406 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Harry Potter]


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[Beast Breaker]


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[The Longest Journey]


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[Battleboarding fandom]


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[Ashes of Gods]


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[Word of Honor]







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Comments

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[Harry Potter]

[meadowphoenix]

I would agree with you if his one point of usefulness pre-memory loss wasn't incredibly terrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

He's a shithead unfortunately

[iff_and_xor]

I've always found his confident incompetence to be quite scary. As a kid, I remember being so uncomfortable with the scene where he tries to fix Harry's arm, despite Harry asking him not to.

[(Anonymous)]

Any and all charm Lockhart possesses is due to Brannaugh's acting. The book Lockhart read as someone trying way too desperately to be charming and failing to read the room.

[(Anonymous)]

exactly. OP, feel free to pinch Kenneth Brannaugh's cheeks, they are very pinchworthy. delightfully so, even. but Lockhart as a character is a selfish narcissist whose vanity has led him to commit criminal acts in order to gain popularity. he may not be as evil as Umbridge, but he's painfully too close to so many awful people we all know irl the same as Umbridge.

[(Anonymous)]

So it is Lockhart who is JK's author insert character, is what you are saying then?

[(Anonymous)]

i feel like it was more of an nlog situation, wasn't it? all the female characters (even hermione!) fall for him because he's good looking, despite him proving his incompetence multiple times

[(Anonymous)]

nlog?

[(Anonymous)]

not like other girls

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn’t he use it magic to make that happen? It’s been a long time since I read the books tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

No he wasn't using magic to charm women, he was using it to steal credit for other people's intellectual work. Much worse, imo.

[tree_and_leaf]

I don't think McGonnagal thinks he's anything other than an idiot, does she?

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

The photoshoot he did in character with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint is hilarious, I love it.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I will be forever annoyed that they cast Brannaugh for the role. He was too old and not nearly handsome enough, IMO. My headcanon for the character will always be Simon Baker circa about 2007. Barker has that buttery-smooth charisma that can balance on a knife's edge between extremely winning and smarmy.

[(Anonymous)]

I do get what you mean, but given how they were pretty adamant about UK casting, I can't headcanon an Australian actor. My pick for Lockhart was Hugh Grant, but he's the same age as Brannaugh, so for a younger actor (in 2002) I would go with Michael Sheen. He can do cluelessness, desperate charm, and sinisterness. If they were casting now, it would totally be Thomas Brodie-Sangster, for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. Those are all fantastic actors, but none of them are Lockhart for me.

I think the thing for me is that I've always pictured Lockhart as genuinely very gorgeous and charismatic, in that "perfect-white-teeth, cover of all the magazines, brands beg him to use their product in public" kind of way. Like, the movie needs to show me the dude the male-attracted characters all see that makes them so infatuated--not the awkward and smarmy buffoon Harry sees.

I also don't care about sticking with UK actors. I would probably avoid casting Americans, but everyone else is fair game to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Thomas Brodie-Sangster looks like he could play Tom Riddle not a middle-aged man old enough to be a professor at a magical boarding school...

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that Branagh wasn't handsome enough but I understand that casting him was kind of a industry joke since he's known to be a bit of an egomaniac.

[(Anonymous)]

i also have a lot of fondness for lockhart, you're not alone