Harry Potter’s world is full of witches and wizards who are both good and evil, but few are as obnoxious as Gilderoy Lockhart.

In the series’ second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lockhart, a celebrity figure, comes to Hogwarts School as a professor.

Tasked with teaching the very serious subject of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Lockhart makes a mess of it, bungling his lessons and boasting about his famed, heroic deeds that were, in fact, carried out by someone else!

By the end of the book, this bumptious (see definition and hear pronunciation below) character eventually gets his comeuppance–much to the relief of Harry Potter and his classmates.

Cool word vocabulary question of the day: What other characters in books or movies can be described as bumptious?

Bumptious:  Self-assertive, proud or confident to an irritating degree.

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