The Death Eaters Are Off Their Game?

[ratalman]

No: HPFGUIDX 71747

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Danger Mouse" 
<dangermousehq at h...> wrote:
> 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
> 
I have been wondering exactly the same thing.  The spell that 
makes Ron laugh uncontrollably, the spell that makes Neville's 
legs dance, etc.  We know that DEs don't have the same 
compunction about harming "foals" as do the centaurs, so, why, 
didn't they throw any really harmful spells at the DA?  The 
obvious answer is that it's too soon to kill off any of the kids, 
plotwise.  I'm really glad for that too.  I've got a young kid
reading the book along with me.

Robyn