The Death Eaters Are Off Their Game?

[Danger Mouse]

No: HPFGUIDX 71746

I found the Department of Mysteries fight scenes rather strange and... dare I say, Unbelievable? Here we have a handful of students who for the longest time beat the living Spam out of a bunch of qualified evil wizards and witches (trained under the Most Evil Lord Thingy). Does it make sense that these wizards, clearly Oh-So-Evil enough to pull off Unforgivables, choose not to use them? Not one fatality for the Students. Little Harry manages to do a good enough Protego charm to protect himself from various curses, so why not the DEs? Sure, they were trying to get the prophecy back to Lord Thingy, but there were plenty of times they could've killed/seriously injured one of the kids. Why not do a quick switching spell on one of the brains and one of Ron's vital organs? It doesn't need to be accurate--even done wrong, it'd still probably kill him... were they just forgetting that they're the bad guys who are supposed to be more skilled and underhanded than a couple teenagers?

Disbelievingly,
Dan

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