Gilderoy Lockhart

Gilderoy Lockhart arrives in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as the wizarding world's best-selling author, met first at a Flourish and Blotts signing where the queue is mostly witches and the photographer fights for space. His books, with titles like Break with a Banshee and Voyages with Vampires, recount his own adventures subduing dark creatures across the globe, and his smile has won Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile award five times, a fact he finds occasions to mention. The new school year brings him to Hogwarts as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, where his first act is a quiz on his students' knowledge of his favourite subject, himself. Forever in lilac or turquoise robes, Lockhart treats fame as a full-time occupation and modesty as a rumour.