"Whoops, I forgot I had this..."

[ebenbrooks]

Some of you might know about my objections to the Harry Potter series. They are numerous and varied, but the biggest one is the fact that characters conveniently forget obvious solutions to problems or information they'd been explicitly told just a few chapters before*. I don't know if I'm just weird this way, but I have a real beef against

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[scifantasy]

Close: a Diabolus ex Machina is where a new thing shows up to screw everything up. This sounds closer to Forgot About His Powers.

And yes, it's very freaking annoying.

(I have to admit that the Dresden Files are seriously falling in my estimation, for a variety of factors.)