Is anyone else still waiting for the other shoe to drop? It seems like Harry & Hermione ended up defeating Meldh far too easily.

I buy that Meldh might be insufficiently prepared for Hermione, given that he was going to tell Harry the counterspell before Harry stopped him. He's clearly overconfident. But in Chapter 42 it's explicitly stated that Harry & Cedric together plan for how to capture her:

“I’m not sure that he would be able to appreciate the threat that Hermione could present, but we do. Let’s make a plan.”

As far as I can see, the only preparation they did for putting her under the Lethe Touch was to restrain her with goblin silver. This is barely even playing at one level.

Even though Harry didn't remember the Goblet of Fire contract, he should clearly have considered the inevitability that he'd erected some Tower defenses against mind control. Yet his planning is very sloppy for this.

Here are some obvious steps that he should have taken before waking Hermione up and attempting to apply the touch:

• Remove the Ultimate Ulna from her arm. That's preparation 101: don't ever leave your enemy with a wand.
• Heck, amputate all her limbs before attempting to mind control her. They'll grow back (no harm done) and there's no reason to leave her with any abilities until you successfully have her under your control
• Use a more secure area for this (transfigure one if necessary), not a standard clinic room. Have the exit controlled/monitored by someone outside the room.
• Don't have anyone in the room with Meldh while he applies the Touch, in case Hermione had some code word prepared to counter potential mind control. Or have several strong but also low-level aurors (hence, unlikely to be privy to secret mind control countermeasures) guarding all top-level personnel.

Bottom line: this seems incredibly sloppy of Harry. Meldh seized control of the Tower entirely too easily, which should have made Harry expect and plan for an additional level of defenses.

So I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Maybe the reason that time turners don't work is that the Three have locked the Tower in some sort of simulation to suss out any countermeasures. (After all, Meldh originally was very reluctant to take direct action, which seems in contrast with his bravado once he does.)