Originally Posted by
Fifty-Eyed Fred
Also, if Voldemort was so mega powerful, then why didn't he just own all of Hogwarts (who somehow seem to run more wizardly things than the government) and murder all of the good wizards the moment he was resurrected?
He wasn't anywhere near as powerful, or intelligent, or even enigmatic as the early books and backstory implied.
And since I know I'm about to hear "oh but Harry was the last Horcrux which explains everything", all I can respond with is "and does that not strike you as the worst sort of contrived attempt to resolve the question without a RetCon?"
It just really, really disappointed me, since I liked the first few books.