I still wonder if the amount of noise one makes when Apparating has anything to do with power, or if it's just personality. Bella is more authoritative, so her pop is louder than Cissy's
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I'm not this deep in any other fandom, so I don't know if this is common or not so I'll ask the question: are villans in other worlds as stupid as Voldemort and his DE's seem to be? There not always stupid, but man, they slip up a lot.
Depends. My biggest fandoms featured immensely intelligent villains along side deeply stupid ones. The Emperor in Star Wars, of course, is the only intelligent character in the films. Most Buffy villains were righteously stupid, but there were a couple (Angelus, or the Mayor) who were smart. The Angel villains were actually brilliant most of the time, which was why the good guys always lost (even when they won; man I miss that show).
So, no, HP's villains aren't any stupider than most villains. It's just annoying because we hear so frequently about how brilliant Tom Riddle is, as well as how smart the good guys are. Which is just as problematic for me. If the good guys are so smart, why haven't they taken down the clearly brain damaged Voldemort?
If the good guys are so smart, why haven't they taken down the clearly brain damaged Voldemort?
I think so too, I just don't see sings of any of the 'good guys' being so clever. They never really think, never doubt, never thing beyond the obvious or have any clever plans to win...the 'bad guys' fool them agains and again, they let innocent go to prison without checking and so on. I guess you can't expect much of people who give up thinking for themselves (not that I think that Dumbledore is better).
I reeeeally think it's going to come across in the OotP movie, when Voldemort and Dumbledore duel while Harry and Bella are retrained by the statues. Gah, and I used to have a theory about counter images of Bella and Tonks relating to the maturity of Harry but I've totally forgotten it!
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I'm not this deep in any other fandom, so I don't know if this is common or not so I'll ask the question: are villans in other worlds as stupid as Voldemort and his DE's seem to be? There not always stupid, but man, they slip up a lot.
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So, no, HP's villains aren't any stupider than most villains. It's just annoying because we hear so frequently about how brilliant Tom Riddle is, as well as how smart the good guys are. Which is just as problematic for me. If the good guys are so smart, why haven't they taken down the clearly brain damaged Voldemort?
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I think so too, I just don't see sings of any of the 'good guys' being so clever. They never really think, never doubt, never thing beyond the obvious or have any clever plans to win...the 'bad guys' fool them agains and again, they let innocent go to prison without checking and so on. I guess you can't expect much of people who give up thinking for themselves (not that I think that Dumbledore is better).
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