PAA:
But you can always assume that you got chosen for being hard working and not because you are a reject.
Or I might not.
Also, he didn’t “outsmart” Voldemort. He simply had access to information which Voldemort didn’t have access to.
Voldermort should have figured it out for himself. He was doubtless aware of Malfoy having disarmed Dumbledore, this information would not have been left out in Snape or Malfoy’s report (there may be a small chance this was not mentioned, but that is unlikely). He should then have enquired as to whether Draco had been defeated since, and not assumed. And he didn’t, either because he was too proud or too careless.
And when I mentioned all villains making the same mistake, I wasn’t referring to Harry Potter; I was referring to all stories.
Are you insinuating that Harry Potter is nothing more than a story? Blasphemy!
Anyway, all good points as far as Harry’s luck is concerned, but you seemed to say his success was incidental and not by design or skill. The correct response to this was, that many of his achievements could not have been reached without Harry’s skill and courage, and most of the rest could be put down to design, with greater wizards orchestrating the sequence of events. So luck plays a very small part in the whole episode.