Why are wizards so incompetent? (Was Face it, there is a reward for being nice (

[phoenixgod2000]

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> Amiable Dorsai:
> I don't think it's a copout, I think it's central to the background of
> the story.  People who are raised in a world where 2+2 is sometimes 4
> and sometimes whatever you need it to be, and where you can easily
> pour a gallon-and-a-half out of a 1-quart jug, are going to have a
> different sort of logic than you and I.  It would be wrong if Wizards
> and Witches, especially purebloods, thought and acted precisely like
> Muggles--particularly if they live lives deliberately isolated from
> Muggles.

You have a point, but I think what is being thrown around as 
incompetence is stuff like their storm trooper like aim in the 
department of mysteries, the laughably bad tactics of both the death 
eaters and Dumbledore (Hermione out manuevers DD for gods sake!). Sure 
it's funny when Ron can't say electricity or wizards can't coordinate 
their clothes, but that stuff makes sense because of what your saying. 
What doesn't make sense is their sheer inability to act like trained 
wizards when we know what they should be capable of, especially when 
arrayed against some children. Yes, it is a convention of the genre but 
normally, thats handled by making the child in question more skilled, 
not makin the adults total incompetents. it stretches credulity the way 
JKR does it.

phoenixgod2000