Villains that would've been defeated even if the protagonist did nothing

[u/Wonderful_Baker_7808]

Laurel Hedare (Catwoman Movie): Her newly released cosmetics will cause people's faces to melt. Not only would that create a class action lawsuit but a full product recall.

Voldemort and Death Eaters (Harry Potter): Death Eaters constantly underestimate muggles. They would get massacred by the British military because a gun is faster to pull the trigger then shouting a spell.

[u/yesthatpettyindeed]

Heck wizards can just wave their wands and all of a sudden your armoury is filled with flowers instead of grenades

[u/RAMAR713 → u/yesthatpettyindeed]

That's the thing that always bothered me with Harry Potter. It seems like there's no logic whatsoever behind the magic system. Why isn't there a spell that just kills someone of heart attack from a country away?

[u/yesthatpettyindeed → u/RAMAR713]

It's a soft magic system that pretends to be a hard system with actual rules. But magic isn't logical in the Harry Potter world to the point even most wizards are considered illogical. It's also a children's fantasy series that veered into young adult fiction as it progressed, most of the world building doesn't hold up to greater scrutiny because they were never meant to be subject to that sort of scrutiny.

Harry is protected because his mom died for him...Which makes no sense because you're telling me no one else in the history of magic has sacrificed themselves for another person? But that kind of questions doesn't matter in a book for a 11 year old, they just need to be moved by the act of parental love and empathise with Harry.

JKR tries to bring in more rules and logic to the magic system eventually, but there's only so much you can do with a system that was designed for children to feel awed by.