Favourite Harry Potter plot hole/criticism/problem?

1. If Voldy cursed DADA teacher position, couldn't he do the same with position of Headmaster of Hogwarts or Minister of Magic?
2. Why didn't anyone even comment on Dumby endangering students by hiding Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts?
3. Why no one besides Harry and Ron asked Moaning Myrtle in detail about how she died? And if someone did, why wasn't it followed upon?

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1. Because Dumbledore is extremely powerful and would either remove the curse or Voldy wouldn't even bother
2) Because Dumbledore saved the world and is extremely powerful and when you are both those things you can do whatever the fuck you want. Plus only 3 students got caught up in it, the rest were content to heed his warnings to stay away from that corridor.
3: Someone probably did and she probably said the same thing, "I saw a pair of great yellow eyes by the sink and died" but they didn't have the context that Harry and Ron had with knowing it as a basilisk that was roaming around. Nobody knew what the creature was the entire time until they figured it out.

>Favourite Harry Potter plot hole/criticism/problem?
the fact that he is what...12... and call himself a wizard? pathetic.

>would either remove the curse
He couldn't break the DADA curse.
>you can do whatever the fuck you want
I.e. wizard world is corrupted and/or retarded.
>they didn't have the context that Harry and Ron had with knowing it as a basilisk that was roaming around
So are they retarded? Huge yellow eyes+instant death from the distance should be a big clue.

1. The curse doesnt guarantee a kill. Lupin was just fine in the end of his year, and became an aurora fighting directly against Voldemort. Last thing Voldemort would want is to give Dumbledore a reason to abandon Hogwarts and chase him down. plus it was stated Voldemort wants full control of Hogwarts itself, not just DADA. its unknown if even he could lift the curse, so it would probably hurt him too if he took control. Cursing DADA specifically gave him an advantage of making sure the new student werent getting the best education in the most important class that could oppose him.
2. Hogwarts is regarded as the safest place, even safer than Gringotts. No matter how fucked it seems at Hogwarts, no other place stands a chance. someone broke into the vault the stone was hidden in, if it wasnt taken to hogwarts, then voldemort would have the stone and immortality. endangering much more than just some students. voldemort/quirell couldnt get past the mirror, dumbledore succeeded in his plan if not for harry
3. cause she didnt know much, she is an absolute idiot and probably gave terrible details. she didnt see anything and the only clues were minor. tom riddle framed it all on half-giant hagrid and the ministry's bigotry against non-humans made them not even question it too hard

iktf

Mad-Eye Moody can see Harry under his cloak of invisibility in the Goblet of Fire using his fake eye, but that's bullshit and retconned when not even "death" itself can see under the cloak.

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I thought the story arc where Harry uncovered a Polyjuice paedophile ring was a little unnecessary

>but that's bullshit and retconned when not even "death" itself can see under the cloak.
Mrs Norris can see harry under it just fine. so there was always something that could see him

>a reason to abandon Hogwarts and chase him down
He already had a reason and if he could catch him, he would.
>Hogwarts is regarded as the safest place
Yeah, wizards are pretty crazy to think like that.
>endangering much more than just some students
Yes, fuck their lives become someone MIGHT try to steal the stone. It's a fucking school, not Dumby's private house and a decision like that should be illegal.
>voldemort/quirell couldnt get past the mirror, dumbledore succeeded in his plan if not for harry
That makes it even worse, why the first graders were able to bypass all the safeguards?
>she is an absolute idiot
Huh? She's a bit unpleasant but that's partially because everyone is a dick to her. Harry and Malfoy were able to strike a meaningful conversation with her.
>the only clues were minor
I beg to differ.
>ministry's bigotry against non-humans
That's a possible explanation but this just proves against that wizards are just complete cunts. And we don't even know if Hagrid being a half-giant was known to MoM at this point.
Apparently, new magical devices>death itself.

Snape is a literal incel who bullies a child because of his parents whom he has no recollection of and has himself been bullied by his adoptive parents, and yet he's supposed to be the hero and we're supposed to feel sorry for him.

Death is a chump in the Harry Potter universe. We know of at least 5 ways to avoid truly dieing in the books alone.

>Yeah, wizards are pretty crazy to think like that.
name a safer place in the books, literally everywhere is compromised

At this point, maybe Azkaban (from the point of view of protecting an item)?
>literally everywhere is compromised
Yes but it doesn't make Hogwarts very safe.

Literally anywhere. There are spells that cam turn any location, even a tent in the middle of the woods into a secure location that can only be entered by people you let in, and this can be set up in a single evening.

Even better, send Voldy/suspected thief on a wild goose chase in some remote location and meanwhile hide stone inside the mirror somewhere else.

>If Voldy cursed DADA teacher position, couldn't he do the same with position of Headmaster of Hogwarts or Minister of Magic?
Headcanon, but I always guessed the jinx was bound to Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem.
The curse manifested after Riddle's second ill-fated application for the Defence against the Dark Arts position, which is generally assumed to be the time when he stowed the Diadem in the Room of Requirements. (Because when else would have Voldemort swooped on in in that period?)
The horcrux's are soul-anchors, and in their non-organic forms generally seem to be magically significant objects like the founder's artefacts, the resurrection stone etc. It stands to reason that powerful curses like the DADA jinx might need to be similarly bound to powerful artefacts. I suppose this is actually a sort of common trope in magic fantasy settings.

>Why didn't anyone even comment on Dumby endangering students by hiding Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts?
Dumbledore is basically everyone's favourite old grandfather in Wizarding Britain due to years of teaching at its only major school. He also commands an enormous amount of respect due to his innumerable magical achievements in transfiguration/alchemy, chief-warlock status, war-hero history with Grindelwald, his various roles in international diplomacy, muggle/squib activism etc.

Aside from Harry's chums, it's never really alluded to that the general population of Britain found out about the stone incident either. Only the Hogwarts faculty seemed to be made privy to it.

>Why no one besides Harry and Ron asked Moaning Myrtle in detail about how she died? And if someone did, why wasn't it followed upon?
Probably because Hagrid was implicated for the crime, and the ministry and headmaster Dippet, keen to keep everything under wraps, considered the case solved.
Myrtle was also fated to spend the rest of her ghostly life as a perpetually whinging insufferable teenage girl, so no one took her seriously

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How much better would Harry Potter's worldbuilding be if Rowling did the Pokémon thing where the extended world is wholly alien except for this one place that's just the real world? Like europe exists, but not Asia, Africa, Australia or the Americas. They have obvious counterparts, like how Kalos is obviously France, but the history is entirely different so that there's no WW2, no Atlantic Slave Trade, no "Emperor Yi Sho takes power; 28 million perish," etc?