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. Despite this, according to him at some point during his education he managed to play as Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. 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 Philosopher's Stone before leaving school and that he intended to captain England's Quidditch team to World Cup glory, before knuckling down to becoming Britain's youngest Minister for Magic). Gilderoy did achieve good marks and his teachers did think that, with hard work, he might be able to make something of himself.

He did have above-average abilities, and he was cleverer than most of his classmates, but he had a bad flaw in that he would not try unless he was confident that he was the best of whichever particular team, group, or class he happened to be with at the time. He had hoped to be greeted by fans and thus become very popular, as in his mind he was already a fully-fledged genius with an exceptional magical prowess the fact that he was merely ordinary, that more talented and gifted children were there, and that nobody was particularly impressed by his naturally wavy hair, disappointed him. He was Sorted into Ravenclaw, but he came close to being a Hatstall, as the Sorting Hat also found him an excellent fit for Slytherin, but decided against it by a narrow margin. Gilderoy Lockhart entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1975, and was four years below James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, and Severus Snape. 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. As the only one of her three children to exhibit magical ability, Gilderoy swiftly became their mother's unashamed favourite, thus greatly inflating young Gilderoy's sense of self-importance. Gilderoy Lockhart was born on 26 January, 1964, to a Muggle man and a witch, and had two elder sisters, both of whom were Squibs. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog.' - Lockhart speaking about his life during a detention session ' It's not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. Following his hospitalisation, he dictated his final book entitled Who Am I?. He was institutionalised in the same ward as Neville Longbottom's parents (the Janus Thickey Ward for permanent spell damage). Lockhart then became a permanent resident of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Ironically, Lockhart lost all of his memory on 29 May, 1993 due to a backfired Memory Charm cast by Ron Weasley's damaged wand. He instead used his considerable talent in Memory Charms to force the actual people who had done them into forgetting what they did, while he took credit for the acts.

Lockhart claimed he did many heroic acts, but it was later found out that he did not actually do them. This shampoo, however, was too dangerous and expensive for open market it subsequently became his dream to be able to market and sell the product. He invented an Occamy egg yolk shampoo at some point. Prior to his tenure as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, specifically during the 1992–1993 school year, he received many prestigious awards, such as Order of Merlin, Third Class Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defence League and the Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times in a row. 26 January, 1964) was a half-blood wizard, a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and later a famous wizarding celebrity who authored many books on dark creatures and his supposed encounters with them. Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that.' - Lockhart's dubious advice to Harry Potter

Ps1 hagrid as soon as i heard