Of course Voldemort messed up: he didn't win, did he? In fact, in the entire HP series, he's probably the epitome of someone who messed up. Throughout seven books we have to listen to him go on and on about killing the boy, about ridding the world of Dumbledore, and about killing off everyone who stands in his way. But crucially, instead of heeding the prophecy foretelling his own death, or hiding his Horcruxes somewhere nobody would ever be able to find them, or like, just having a simple forcefield around them, he became so obsessed with his own power that he basically turned his own arch-nemesis into a magical killing machine. Sure, it takes a lot of effort on Harry's part to finally get it over with, but good overrules, as it should do in these fantasy books, and Voldemort ends up as nothing more than a cloud of ashes in the wind. When he could quite easily have reigned supreme from his evil throne and just got someone else to kill Harry and hide the bits of his soul he really needed not to be found. Instead of putting them literally everywhere related to him in any way like an idiot. Which other massive mess ups in the Harry Potter world deserve to be on this list? Share your thoughts below in the comments thread.
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