So, my thread suddenly went nuclear a couple days ago it seems. I was sadly only able to read it today since I was absent from my home for a week.
But I have read it now. And there is a lot of factually incorrect stuff in here. Like,a lot.
Someone said "Wormtail destroyed his wand to cast the spell that blew up a street."
I would like to see a source for that, because I have never even heard of that and I've read nigh on everything that there is about Harry Potter. Wormtails wand is suggested to be of superior skill in the cruder forms of magic, but that's it.
Snape being superior to Minerva, James, Sirius usw usw.
Also untrue. James and Sirius tended to just curbstomp Snape everytime they fought and `Young` James solo'd Snape right there in the books. Without any effort whatsoever, I might add. Both James and Sirius are noted to be geniuses and possibly the best of their generation. Yes, Snape was superior to Adult Sirius and to Prime James. Because the first had been in Azkaban for 13 years, literally going backwards in magical skill and James had been dead for the same time. Both could not grow. Meanwhile Snape was able to train and learn, so of course he is superior. Note thought, that he still seems wary of fighting Bellatrix or Sirius.
Propably because the Black were just extremely powerful wizards. Snape outskilled them thought.
As to Filius, Minerva and Slughorn. We never even see Snape fight Filius, just suprise him. Minerva might be, just like Filius, old as hell (she literally has two canonically correct ages. Like, wtf Rowling) Slughorn openly specialises in Potions. All are noted to be powerful, yes. But Voldemort, the second he got serious, literally one-shotted them in under a second. They cannot scale to him.
As to Snape vs. Minerva.
Snape is with high propability more powerful than Minerva, simply because of the reason he was trained by Voldemort himself, just like Bellatrix and possibly Dolohov. Him "holding back" is propably him just restraining on the potentially lethal curses. Still a goodpoint for him.
Voldemort smiting people.
Voldemort's curses no longer had any lasting effect on people. However, they had to have had some effect on people. The blessing has limits. I rather doubt it could stop a accelerated brick from Voldemort just because it was brought to that speed by magic. I also rather doubt it could stop Voldemort from breaking your neck through magically applied force. It can merely stop purely magical effects.
He was also able to Curse Neville, even with the Blessing on him, so...
Someone also suggested that Snape has undone Voldemorts magic multiple times. He has not. In fact, he has tried to do so exactly two times. Once with Quirrelmort, which was a nerfed Voldemort and greatly weakened (and still could only halt him) and Dumbledore's curse, which he could just barely halt for around a year.
Pottermore Canon!!!
Pottermore is the single largest source of plotholes and completely impossible statements. Pottermore both states that Wands are necessary for magic AND that they are not not needed and merely a helpful gimmick. Enough said about that pile of garbage.
Power in Harry Potter.
Power in HP is a can of worms in and on itself. The Top Tier, for all intents and purposes, cannot even lay a finger on the God TIer. That is just how it is. Three Top Tier were barely able to halt a God Tier. Bellatrix was basically useless against Dumbledore. Grindewald outdid 20 freaking aurors. There might be some kind of "Threshhold" or something that, once passed, makes you vastly more powerful.
It is proven again and again that a sufficiently powerful wizard can block way to powerful curses for the average protego with just that: a protego. A shitty charm that should, at best, be able to block Jinxes and Hexes, so low to mid level Dark Magic. Yet Harry Potter basically uses that thing for everything because he is vastly more powerful than your everage wizard.
Voldemort, Dumbledore and Grindelwald can just stomp through Defensive Magic of your average top Tier and Stonewall them for because they are just that much more powerful. Best example here is Grindelwald facetanking ~20 High-Mid to Low-Top Tier characters because he is just that freaking strong. It is never mentioned how Ginny, Luna and Hermione equal Bellatrix, since Ginny is quite literally a centimeter from death. It might just be that their defense is somewhat able to keep up with Bellatrix offence, but, well, Ginny was pretty close to death there.
The Movies:
The Movies are mentioned like 30 times in the entire discussion as proof of Voldemorts deeds. The Movies do not matter. One bit. Movie Deatheaters are around building level via freaking Apparition. The movies take massive creative licenses, have gargantuan plotholes, like, say, the TimeTurnerParadox, that does not even exist in the Books.
So that was long AF, but I think necessary. Lastly: Please start reading up on sources before making statements. Even simple googlesearches, for christs sake. Do not make statements if you just think "you might have just read it somewhere".
