Mind-Boggling Questions

So here are two things I have been contemplating lately.  They are mind-boggling questions that may forever be unanswered, but I will raise them nonetheless.


[SPOILER ALERT]  For those of you who haven't read the Harry Potter series, please skip this post or just don't read the second half (SORRY!)




1.  Superman is supposedly super, right?  He's an alien, for one thing.  He can fly.  He can run really fast.  He's really strong and has x-ray vision and heat emanates from his eyeballs and he can blow really strong winds and stuff.  But he has one weakness - kryptonite.


And everytime Superman fights a bad guy, that bad guy conveniently has some kryptonite with which to disable Superman.  Once Superman is around kryptonite, he becomes this groveling weak little creature that is no more useful than my hamster trying to save the world.


So if Superman is so SUPER, why doesn't he just FLY AROUND THE UNIVERSE (because he can fly) and use his awesome x-ray vision (because he has x-ray vision) and find all the kryptonite, then use his heat laser eyeballs (because he emanates it from his eyes) and DESTROY ALL THE KRYPTONITE??


Then when Bizarro goes to search for some kryptonite to use against Superman (his millionth attempt to defeat Superman), he will discover that gasp! there is none to be found!  And now that Superman has destroyed all the kryptonite, he no longer has a weakness!  Now SUPERMAN can go on the hunt and defeat all those pesky bad guys, and he will be pure pwnage because they have no kryptonite.


But no.  Instead, Superman just idly sits at the Daily Bugle (or wherever he works, I get him and Spider-Man mixed up) waiting for the next bad guy to come along, with more kryptonite, to try and defeat him.  Way to make things easy on yourself, Mr. Kent.  Yeah, that's right.  You could have made the world a safer place a long time ago if you had just used your brain.

2.  So Harry is supposedly the CHOSEN ONE, right?  And since he's the Chosen One, only he can defeat He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named [okay, I'm feeling brave so I'll start using his name - VOLDEMORT].  Thus, given that Harry Potter is the Chosen One and is the only one who can defeat Voldemort, the most powerful wizard of their time...


SHOULDN'T EVERYONE DO THEIR BEST TO PROTECT HARRY AND MAKE SURE HE REALLY DOES DEFEAT VOLDEMORT???


I'm specifically talking about the ANTI-CLIMATIC scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where everyone basically formed a giant circle around Harry and Voldemort and watched them battle it out to the death.  Yeah, sounds reminiscent of high school.


Okay, so everyone is standing around WATCHING them duel.  Harry, a pewny 17-year-old, against the impossibly powerful Voldemort.  No one offers to jump in and help Harry to make sure that Harry doesn't die.  Because after all, why not just stand there, twiddling your thumbs, and watch Harry and Voldemort duel?  


I'm not asking for much.  Maybe someone could, I DON'T KNOW, have shot a hex at Voldemort - like the jelly-legs hex or something - so Harry would at least have a much better chance at winning.  Maybe just help Harry out a little bit by disabling Voldemort. 


BUT WHERE IS THE HONOR IN THAT, you cry.  HARRY HAS TO DEFEAT VOLDEMORT ON HIS OWN!


And to that, I say - WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT HONOR WHEN, IF HARRY MESSES UP, HES DEAD AND WITH HIM THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE WIZARDING WORLD IS SEALED?!  I WOULD GLADLY SACRIFICE MY HONOR IF I KNEW THAT IT WOULD GUARANTEE THE DEFEAT OF VOLDEMORT!!!


But no.  Instead, J.K. Rowling had Harry and Voldemort fighting in a duel, surrounded by fully capable wizards who opted instead to ogle Harry and Voldemort rather than try to help Harry out by shooting a few random curses while Voldemort's back was turned.