• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Funny thing is, despite Professor Lockhart’s ego, I see Chamber of Secrets and don’t think he’s that terrible a person. So many people in the series are vile, overly strict, discriminatory, etc. and we are led to hate him despite his relative agreeableness just because he thinks highly of himself?

    L Ron Hubbard, on the other hand, used his power to amass a personal army that acted as a human beehive and even had his followers successfully infiltrate the White House in a revenge plot called Operation Snow White. Despite me positing here that cults are not necessarily “bad”, being so absolutist isn’t great. They both might indulge themselves but Lockhart expressed no intent to sabotage Hogwarts.

    • Thavron@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I believe the general consensus is that he’s a horrible person for erasing the minds of dozens of people after stealing their stories.