I mostly agree, here. I don't think it's particularly poetic, but then, I've never found that of any sort of comeuppance. Nor have I ever really found comeuppance funny, which JKR clearly expects me to (in a wide variety of places, usually involving Draco or Dudley).
OTOH, Lockhart here strikes me as one of the only places in the series where the comeuppance/punishment actually *does* fit the crime. Lockhart was quite literally struck by the exact spell he had intended for one of the boys. I don't think that he completely erased the memories of all the people whose deeds he stole (as opposed to altering certain memories), but they probably wouldn't have been the first. What I *did* think was overly vicious was that, upon being discovered as a fraud, the boys forced him to wandlessly accompany them into the lair of a deadly monster.
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Date: 2004-11-12 03:40 pm (UTC)OTOH, Lockhart here strikes me as one of the only places in the series where the comeuppance/punishment actually *does* fit the crime. Lockhart was quite literally struck by the exact spell he had intended for one of the boys. I don't think that he completely erased the memories of all the people whose deeds he stole (as opposed to altering certain memories), but they probably wouldn't have been the first. What I *did* think was overly vicious was that, upon being discovered as a fraud, the boys forced him to wandlessly accompany them into the lair of a deadly monster.