Chapter Seventy One: The Fatal Mistake of Professor Gilderoy Lockheart

"Until I feared I would lose it,

I never loved to read.

One does not love breathing."

Harper Lee, Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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Attn:

THE REQUIRED READING LIST

For the Comprehensive Examination

But not by the order of the Famous

Professor Gilderoy Lockheart

who tragically lost his Own Memory

By an accidental Incantation that backfired

Against His Own Image

(A Partial List, more to follow)

Harry Potter Series

Twilight Saga

Inheritance Cycle

Divergent Series

A Song of Fire and Ice Series

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series

Artemis Fowl (The Fowl Adventures)

The Life and Times of the

Wicked Witch of the West

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Hunger Games Series

The Secret Series

The Bad Books

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Series

The Tale of Despereaux

Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo

Attested by:

FOR THE UNOFFICIAL SCHOOL OF LIFE

BY ORDER OF MANAGEMENT

(Sgd.) QUICHE LORRAINE

Civil Registrar-General

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It was a fearfully tragic moment to take a glimpse of the past, if in any way possible he can still remember it. It was an opportune moment for him, to be able to use a Memory Charm without the Ministry of Magic actually sanctioning its permitted utility. A life as a Dark Master with very little talent has forced him to learn to resent those who were able to manipulate darkness with ease and expertise. The journey from a purported Mastery of an element he never truly undestood led him to believe in the power of his own volition, and became vulnerable in answering the call of temptation without enough thinking or careful consideration of thoughts.

First of all, the deceit began when he was given with a different version of the Sticky Pole, with the stranger informing him that he will possess a very powerful "magic wand" from heretofore. At first, he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the first use of the "silly" stick, as he would later on refer to it. He was astonished by the singular magical incantation he was instructed to use, called Obliviate, and a thousand enterprising plans immediately sprouted from his head, unbelievingly true and congruent to what he imagined and fantasized to be the ultimate efficacy of dreams as a definite form of certain metaphysical characteristics, which primarily involves the most greedy thoughts for wanting the many riches that he could possibly amass by the ordinary use of a simple magical trick.

"It is an illusion, a trick," the stranger simply said to him. "It will give you all the glory and influence in life without putting too much effort into it."

But this stranger is full of lies and did not originate from the actual race of accomplished Magicians (although more powerful as a certain being), but he is far worse than all the nightmares that can ever be conceived all combined together. It is a very important fact to be mentioned because the Occult Tradition of Ethical Magic has a very low regard to the weakest Wand (the very same one given to him) that is available for possible procurement within the wizardkind communities. There is absolute callous, shameless deception from the very beginning of this outrageous transactional temptation.

Yet, not everyone is willing to take their own initiative of ultimately earning his deserved merit by hard work and grit when an alternative way is to be presented in a predefined circumstance of ease, which can be done in secret and someone's exclusivity of access to crucial (and most especially restricted) information. So it went down in history to be the greatest injustice ever to be seen within the sphere of magical competence, and the "most audacious thievery" ever attempted, to be known historically as the most fatal literary anomaly that was ever committed by the "great" (but false) Professor Gilderoy Lockheart by literally owning the experiences of others and writing a book about them, claiming it as his own, in order to prolifically write dozens of books involving the defense against the Dark Arts. Consequently, during his last official posting in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he suddenly lost his own literal memory and has, since then, spent most of his remaining days in the intensive care wards of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

Of course, every appeal or temptation to cheat the mandatory obligation of the cosmos under the Code of the Material Realm requires a certain form of payment in return, and the untalented Gilderoy (who wanted all the glory to himself) is set to become an instrument of incredulous anomaly that would soon haunt the common interest of the entire universe. By failing his main quest of understanding darkness as a "utility rather than the end result of the acquisition of a secret advantage," he fell victim to his own desires and pleasures, ultimately destroying himself in the entire process. The failure to relate to this important Duality of the power of the Paradox is very much pronounced in this case by the qualified Mataphysicians who are more familiar to these types of causes.

The stranger, as some might have guessed already, was Lucifer the Devil or Satan himself, and he is not even a myth or a legend. He has a simister plan in place, and he thought it was more than clever as an idea of power, and it will fool everyone who has a desire to take the bait, dressed in the noblest of intentions.

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