Is Quirrel holding the idiot ball? (Spoilers up to 116)

Harry accepts a plaintext message on parchment from "himself" after already having demonstrated both the potato code and rudimentary encryption, and even though he's supposedly afraid for his life in Hogwarts, decides to check out the Dark Lord Magnet without a full army of Aurors whom he brought there precisely to save him from this, and doesn't bail out immediately when he sees Sprout shooting Snape, if only to not observe either of them dying while he still has Time to call for backup.

Dumbledore is defeated on his own battleground, which runs on its own arbitrary rules where the ancient device with "true morality" conveniently has a self-sacrificable but not cancelable life sentence spell which he should've known better than Q, by an artifact he has actually held in his hand. Did I mention you can jump back to your own universe by turning invisible?

Professor "cheating is technique" Quirrell, who has been making fun of idiots for the last 90 chapters and always has One Level Higher Than You contingencies like an Animagus potion in Azkaban, doesn't take away Harry's wand. Obviously, we were meant to conclude he doesn't have contingencies just this one time after planning the scenario for months.

Harry wins with a plan that's so Gryffindor he should've gotten the sword too, which requires among other things that Lord "If, as an adult wizard, you find yourself incapable of using the Killing Curse, then you can simply Apparate away!" Voldemort, who has just told us he'd deal with Dementors by jumping bodies, doesn't apparate away or jump bodies immediately, even after losing both hands, and doesn't even have a suicide trigger in place along the lines of Mother of Learning. And cannot detect either Harry's magic or the emotion that he's planning something. And that none of the Death Eaters scratch their foreheads and break the silk. And oh by the way he kills his friend's dad (unless the Dark Lord killed him already for not showing up) after resurrecting his other friend with the thought that all life is valuable. And that's the good ending.

If we seem confused, that's because this is confusing.

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