Is it only me or the Potterverse's current tiering and scalling is somehow misdone?
My point
I mean, all characters are
9-B.
All characters.
While we do have the "god tiers" like Dumbledore, Voldemort and Grindelwald at Tier 8, it simply makes no sense for the top tiers to be barely 9-B. The gap is just
too big.
You know, Minerva McGonagall, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Horace Slughorn fought Voldemort and pushed him to a stalemate. OK, there are three top tier mages fighting one god tier, but if you tell me three 9-B = one High 8-C, things are getting a little strange here.
And you honestly cannot tell me Voldemort was not at full power, either. He had the Elder Wand in his possession, and it is not in-character for Voldemort to hold back. Also, two seconds before that fight, he was described by narration as
"striking and smiting all within reach". I suppose my point is obvious now.
Many of the top tiers have higher tier feats. E.g, Newt fighting (most blocking than attacking but you got me) Grindelwald.
Now now, put down the fork, I do realize he was not at full power, did not have the Elder Wand and was hiding. Still, he was seen throwing cars with wandless magic and single handedly defeating several aurors who turned against him.
Also, visual effects implicate he was using lightning against Newt (and we can most likely prove it was lightning because: 1, Grindelwald was shown to be able to summon natural CTC lightning and 2, the spell clearly showed to be able to conduct through materials, a good example being metal (Grindelwald literally attacked the rails beneath Newt and Scamander was sent flying backwards).
Newt could also block Grindelwald's "Fiendfyre", which simply lol phased through aurors' shields and vaporized them mid-apparition. He also helped undoing Grindelwald's spell.
We have also got the day when Bellatrix blocked that spell from Dumbledore and. Even though he was most likely not using his full power against her, he made short work of every single Death Eater in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries with that same spell. Bellatrix also overpowered Shacklebolt and Sirius that day (albeit not at the same time). Remember, please, that Shacklebolt also fought Voldemort (return to the beginning of this block of text if you have already forgotten).
She also fought Hermione, Luna and Ginny at the same time.
Another blatant example of higher tier feats is Snape stalemating McGonagall while holding back. They were equally matched and Snape wasn't even trying at all. He only flees because Filius Flitwick (whose power exceed that of strong Death Eater, dwarf both Lupin and Tonks and most likely equal that of Belatrix) and another teacher (I believe it was Sprout) arrive and even
the he would most likely not lose, but would have need of using his full power (which would end up killing the teachers, and he was obviously trying to avoid that).
Snape also countered Voldemort's/Quirrel's spell when the latter was trying to kill Harry, knew magic powerful enough to slow the effects of Voldemort's curse on Dumbledore, was skilled enough in magic to be both Dumbledore's and Voldemort's most trusted adviser.
There is also the whole Crabble destroying the Room of Requirement thing
(which seemingly cannot be used because "lol cursed fire"). Also, any sufficiently good third year can cast Glacius, a spell that freezes other wizards.
Freezing a human is already 9-A.
Remus Lupi's werewolf form is
9-A, which is classified by the Ministry of Magic as a XXXXX (known wizard killer/impossible to train or domesticate). Even though, strong wizards can still match werewolfs, as we see when Lyall Lupin (Lupin's father) defeats Fenrir Greyback (the werewolf who transformed Lupin) and drives him off with powerful spells.
There's also the scene when Snape blocks and survives an attack by Werewolf Lupin to protect the trio
(film only I think).
OBS:
Newt Scamander is already
9-A for some reason. Funny how he's, alone, already superior to most likely anyone else, like Bellatrix, Minerva and even Snape himself.
TL; DR
I'm pointing out several mistakes in HP's profiles, showing some feats that would most likely upgrade a significant amount of characters
(if not all of them tbh)