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*** What's even stupider is that there ''is'' a rule stated to be forbidden for contest participants; "The champions are not permitted to ask for or accept help of any kind from their teachers to complete the tasks in the tournament." Harry could have gotten out of the contest at any time simply by walking up to Dumbledore and asking him for some tips. Likewise, Dumbledore could have gotten Harry out simply by handing him a crib sheet. |
*** What's even stupider is that there ''is'' a rule stated to be forbidden for contest participants; "The champions are not permitted to ask for or accept help of any kind from their teachers to complete the tasks in the tournament." Harry could have gotten out of the contest at any time simply by walking up to Dumbledore and asking him for some tips. Likewise, Dumbledore could have gotten Harry out simply by handing him a crib sheet. |
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* The escape of Peter Pettigrew in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. It requires that: |
* The escape of Peter Pettigrew in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. It requires that: |
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** Two full grown wizards (both combat veterans of the first war against Voldemort, no less) and three students (one of them a genius-level prodigy) to all fail to think of any spell to keep Pettigrew from being able to run away, ''when they are already using similar spells to keep Snape disabled and restrained '''in the very same scene'''''. |
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** All of them to forget that the werewolf is going to be out on a full moon, even though Lupin should never forget that, and furthermore after Snape had just entered the scene announcing out loud that Lupin had failed to take his Wolfsbane potion (before being knocked unconscious). |
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** Peter to not suggest this action even when Sirius is loudly announcing his intent to murder Pettigrew on the spot, despite having it firmly established that Peter is a total coward and would do or say anything to live five minutes longer. |
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** It seems that the author realized she wrote an end to her seven part series in the third installment and had to use an [[Only the Author Can Save Them Now|Only the Author Can Beat Them Now]] to get out of it. |
** It seems that the author realized she wrote an end to her seven part series in the third installment and had to use an [[Only the Author Can Save Them Now|Only the Author Can Beat Them Now]] to get out of it. |
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* The fact that the Wizarding community never sought out the help of the Muggles to aid them against Voldemort. Look we can argue ''all day'' about whether a wand would beat a gun but at the end of the day Muggles have things such as fighter jets, tanks, cruise missiles, machine guns, superior surveillance and tracking abilities e.g. UAV's and satellites, superior communication, superior numbers and more importantly superior training. If we had deployed the air force during the Battle of Hogwarts it would have lasted five minutes. Oh and before anyone brings the whole ''secrecy'' argument into this; ''if'' the British Prime minister knows about the Wizarding World you can bet your life that the Pentagon is also fully aware of the existence of the Wizarding community. Or are we really supposed the believe that when the US President was briefed by the American Minister for Magic about the second war against Voldemort that he kept that threat a secret and didn't immediately start drawing up contingency plans to protect his country should the worst come to the worst? Hell it stretches credulity that the British PM wasn't doing the exact same thing given the fact that people like Fudge proved just how much of a threat to national security Wizards are. In a post 9/11 world we're generally suspicious of people that can accost our leadership in their own office. |
* The fact that the Wizarding community never sought out the help of the Muggles to aid them against Voldemort. Look we can argue ''all day'' about whether a wand would beat a gun but at the end of the day Muggles have things such as fighter jets, tanks, cruise missiles, machine guns, superior surveillance and tracking abilities e.g. UAV's and satellites, superior communication, superior numbers and more importantly superior training. If we had deployed the air force during the Battle of Hogwarts it would have lasted five minutes. Oh and before anyone brings the whole ''secrecy'' argument into this; ''if'' the British Prime minister knows about the Wizarding World you can bet your life that the Pentagon is also fully aware of the existence of the Wizarding community. Or are we really supposed the believe that when the US President was briefed by the American Minister for Magic about the second war against Voldemort that he kept that threat a secret and didn't immediately start drawing up contingency plans to protect his country should the worst come to the worst? Hell it stretches credulity that the British PM wasn't doing the exact same thing given the fact that people like Fudge proved just how much of a threat to national security Wizards are. In a post 9/11 world we're generally suspicious of people that can accost our leadership in their own office. |
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