Very interesting. It seems that no matter who gets petrified, Harry can't avoid arousing suspicion from his less-than-brilliant peers. He seems to have a lot of those, doesn't he?
Looking forward to more, hopefully in future chapters you'll continue to marginalize Lockhart.
Author's response
The stupidity of the Hogwarts students and staff seemed to go up in each volume of canon, didn't it?
"T"