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{{quote|''Gilligan screwed it up! Why don't they just kill him?"
|'''Red Forman''', [[That '70s Show]]}}
{{quote|''[[Memetic Mutation|"If anyone listened to Jack Bauer, the show would be called '3'.]]"''
|'''[[24|Jack Bauer Facts]]'''}}
[[Plot Induced Stupidity]] on a grand scale. An entire show whose continued existence depends on its castmembers ''not'' doing one simple, easy-to-think-of thing that could solve all of their problems and wrap everything up in a neat little package. It's the Helen Keller of [[Genre Blindness]]. It's any [[Fridge Logic|question]] the viewer may have to which the only sensible answer is: "[[Anthropic Principle|Because then there'd be no show]]/movie/novel/game, that's why."
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*** They did try to tell McGonagall, but she refused to listen and just insisted that the stone was protected well enough. Still, they might have tried harder or tried other teachers.
**** To be fair, McGonagall is the Deputy Headmistress—in Dumbledore's absence she's the most senior teacher in the school. Going to any other staff member would not be likely to do anything useful, as she'd just pull rank on them. As for the kids being more convincing, they're ''eleven''. Plus, McGonagall was being singularly obtuse; since the entire plan of putting the Philosopher's Stone down there was to decoy the villain into going after it, an attack on the Stone should have been ''expected''. And Dumbledore's first absence from the campus in months is the most obvious time for that attack to occur, yet she still considers the kids' story to somehow be intrinsically unbelievable. Really, [[Adults Are Useless|Adults Were Useless]] here.
** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Goblet of Fire]]'', Voldemort had Barty Crouch Jr. impersonate Moody, arrange so that Harry's name would come out of the Goblet of Fire thus making him one of the participants in the Triwizard Tournament, and help Harry win by rigging the tournament's events and manipulate other characters to to aid him. All of this was done so that Harry would touch the tournament's trophy, which had been turned by Crouch into a portkey that would teleport Harry to Voldemort, who would then use his blood to restore his (Voldemort's) body. Here's the funny thing: Crouch could have turned ''anything'' into the portkey; it didn't have to a object as hard to reach as the trophy. And of course, there's no way Voldermort or Crouch would have been certain that Harry would win the tournament (even with all of their efforts), or that he would be allowed to participate in the first place (what with him being too young and all). Surely there would have been a much less convoluted and more fail-proof way of doing this, like Moody (Crouch) turning a random possession of "his" (like Moody's Sneakoscope) into a portkey, placing it somewhere in his office, calling Harry there to have a talk with him, and then casually saying "Can you pass me that Sneakoscope you see over there?".
**** Don't forget, you can't get off the school grounds with Apparitions and Portkeys (the closest to this is Floo Powder). But the area right around the castle itself, {{spoiler|(since Snape and Malfoy apparate away right as soon as they enter the forest)}} makes me think that Moody had to have Harry get off the school grounds. Since the maze would not be in school grounds, Harry could be taken directly to Voldemort, everyone would think his death was an accident, and Moody would not be suspected at all.
***** 'Not being suspected' is irrelevant to Barty's purpose, as his only reason for being there at all is to set up Harry's kindapping. So long as he can physically carry Harry off of Hogwarts grounds, Barty has no reason to come back after that's done. So he really has no excuse for not assigning Harry a detention in the Forbidden Forest, escorting Harry out there himself, and then sapping the kid over the head and bamfing away with him the instant they're outside the Hogwarts immediate anti-Apparition zone. Heck, there's a gift-wrapped opportunity for him to do that in the series; when Barty Sr. caught up to them at the edge of the Forbidden Forest and tried to warn them. Instead of leading Barty Sr. off to be murdered, he should just have left him there with the people and escorted Harry "to Dumbledore's office", and then yoicks and away. Instead, [[Idiot Ball]].
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