The Inspiration Voldemort Gave

Dumbledore lowered his head to look at Bertha Jorkins. "Even when Gilderoy Lockhart was possessed by Voldemort, on the level of the soul, he didn't suffer damage this severe."

"He even grew his hair back..." Vizet said evenly. "There was a photo of him in an earlier issue of The Daily Prophet."

After Gilderoy Lockhart's accident at the Duelling Club, Fred and George had specially prepared a toilet seat and gone to the Hospital Wing to visit Gilderoy Lockhart;

Although the toilet seat was destroyed by Madam Pomfrey, Fred and George still received a "heartbreaking" piece of news from her: Gilderoy Lockhart's hair would not be coming back;

When Gilderoy Lockhart was about to be locked up in Azkaban, The Daily Prophet not only interviewed Cornelius Fudge, but also snapped a photograph of Gilderoy Lockhart with his hair grown back.

"Yes... Gilderoy Lockhart even grew his hair back." Dumbledore let out a soft breath, his tone a little more relaxed than before. "That also proves, indirectly..."

"That the Obliviation Charm Old Barty cast on Jorkins was actually extremely difficult to break. When Voldemort forcibly broke it in order to obtain the secret, Jorkins's soul was already terribly ravaged."

Vizet nodded and thought back to the various negative reports about Old Barty Crouch that had been published in the newspapers;

One thing all those negative reports mentioned was that Old Barty Crouch's son had become a Death Eater, and that he had personally presided over the trial and sent his own son to Azkaban;

Aside from that, there were interviews with former Ministry of Magic employees, most of whom said Old Barty Crouch was cold and unreasonable, and that anyone who made a mistake was very likely to be dismissed by him;

From this, it could be seen that in terms