Probably because its a shitty TERF series. Read better books, watch better movies.
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Nah, the magic system is fine, they just didn't use it right. Example: Snape wondering if somebody is there. "Accio Invisibility cloak!" Boom, Harry's standing there visible and Snape has his cloak!
A magic cloak that can hide from Death can probably hide from Accio, too.
Honestly Accio seemed to fail close to 80% of the time.
It would have been much better if she styled her spells like pokemon moves with accuracy % and the caster stats affecting speed, evasiveness, boosts, resistance, etc.
The whole allegiance of wands thing could fit that
There’s was almost no magic!
Magic systems are not about what is possible, but the limitations.
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It says a lot about Rowling that Hermionesl's one flaw was being an abolitionist
In the books Harmoniems is pretty flawed, book smart, but totally unfamiliar with wizard business and the magical blokes, she knows the book stuff, not the culture stuff.
The reader hardly knows about the culture shit. How is it that we don't know voldermort can hear anyone say his name until the last book?
Well.... you know why. Because JK wrote them first book to last without really planning what happens next or why, and didn't bother tying stuff in to the previous books unless it occurred to her without checking.
Knew enough to understand slavery is bad
It's also not surprising the conservative rat hates history even though it should be one of the most important subject when dealing with the setting's hitler.
She made Hermione after herself. She needed the boys to be bad at magic or Hermione couldn't save them. If they were bad because magic was that hard, that would make her a genius, which wasn't what she was going for. The magical system was lame and the boys were bad at it because they were just unobservant undriven "boys". It's likely a combination of her worldview she's painting and trying to set the stage that magic is everywhere and all around us and everybody can do it but they don't just know exactly how.
Magic is that hard, but being a genius doesn't make you good at it. Rote memorisation makes you good at it. Hermione isn't a genius, she enjoys rote learning. Harry and Ron crave stimulation, and there's none to be found in Rowling's magic system. Rowling might have intended magic to be easy, but she made a mistake. Rowling enjoys rote memorisation, so it's easy for her and her self insert, but not for normal people who want to be intellectually stimulated. Rowling accidentally made magic hard, and the story makes more sense with her mistake in it.
Harry doesn't need to study or practice because, by accident of birth and circumstance, he's naturally gifted at magic. Hermione isn't naturally as gifted, but with hard work and dedication, she can do it all. Ron is neither, so he's just the fuck up.
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