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Harry Potter and the wizard world

I am a Harry Potter, a.k.a., JK's star, fan! Now that I have that out of the way, I need to share some perspectives of the movies and the books and some puzzles of my own.

I have read books that query Rowling's ideas and characters and actions and consequences. I will throw this mini tome into that ring.

HP fans know about Mr. Potter and his relatives, friends, and involuntary enemies.

We know that from day one, Mr. Potter has had to battle bullies and skeptics and
"The forces of evil?!" I say evil cause nowhere that I am reading do I find out,
other than verbal proclamations from Him himself and others that he is the best, what "He whose name must not be mentioned"..we have an ego thing about who is the best wizard. I have a feeling that if it were not in a book, that Mr. Potter would GLADLY say "Mr. V, I do not give one whit about being a great anything! That response would not satisfy the ego starved Mr. V.

Putting that hypothesis aside, my problem is one that rains on the parade REGARDLESS the fact that I have read all the books, seen the movies and I LIKE THEM ALL! [I like many things I do not understand.]

I am by occupation, a real estate broker, business consultant, world traveler and hopefully, also obvious, a free-lance writer. I like to pick some stuff apart that glows illogic.

Mr. Potter is not having these situations exclusively at local pubs, in the dark deep woods or at homethough we Potter fans know that some of them in fact, do occur at these venues.

Mr. Potter is a young man and appropriately, a STUDENT. He is not attending
a school exclusively for young men, or for imminent actors or for Brits. He is attending a school for wizards. That in itself LEADS to a puzzlement.

While Mr. Potter has few innate skills, [the few he does, granted, are rather spectacular] he is in a learning mode some of the time and in a "Do it now or lose your ass" situation- one after the other.

OF course, we know that in battles of every type, the most educated do not always win. [A real battle in the sands of the middle east is testament to that!] However, it seems very odd to me that, while it may take some of the suspense out of the books and movies, that the faculty seem a bit pre-occupied and thus, unable to assist Mr. Potter in his quests to both discover himself AND solve his sequential predicaments.

We have a school of highly skilled wizards who are teachers and some returning students who have had a chance to explore their wizard abilities

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