Harry Potter: This character should return in Part 5

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Post published:January 22, 2023
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A wizard who was the icing on the cake for many fans of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” almost celebrated his Potter comeback later.

As a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, he quickly turned out to be a charlatan who is not at all an experienced magician, but rather of the “poor sausage” type. Thanks to Branagh and his absurd charisma, the character worked brilliantly on screen – and had some contributors to the Harry Potter films had their way, fans would have seen him again in a later film.

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Gilderoy Lockhart was supposed to appear in “Order of the Phoenix”.

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Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart – an endearingly pathetic villain.

Lockhart appears twice in the novels: Once, of course, as an important character in “The Chamber of Secrets” and once briefly in a chapter from “The Order of the Phoenix”, i.e. the fifth part. That’s where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are right now St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and run into Lockhart, who is still suffering from what happened three years ago. A short but fun performance.

And screenwriter Michael Goldenberg was keen to capture this brief scene when he was writing the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. So, in his first draft of the script, the moment was captured and we would have seen Lockhart all over again in all his glory, lying in a hospital bed surrounded by photos of himself. Unfortunately, in the early development process, it turned out that Branagh would not have had time to film and so the scene had to be discarded.

It would have been an amusing reunion – and one more scene true to the book in a film that fans like to accuse for straying too far from the novel.