Marriage contracts of some kind used to be pretty common amongst the nobility and potentates of older times, and was often seen as a way to enhance the social and/or financial position of atleast one side of the family. Usually, it was both. It was also not unknown as a way to enforce a peace between two organisations.
Because of this, it's not entirely weird that the Wizarding World, which from all appearances lags behind the Muggles in many ways, also lags behind in sociocultural matters like views on romance and marriage. However, it's often used as a hamfisted way to get a pairing together or as a threat for the muggleborns/half bloods to conquer or be forced to marry pureblooded spouses selected for them by the surviving blood supremacists in an attempt to keep them muggleborns and half bloods suppressed as a powerblock.
Soul bonds look to me as a mostly romantic/idealistic trope used to highlight how 'right' the various pairings are and how important they are for eachother.
Goblins are often unusually and unrealistically helpful for Harry, especially when he's highlighted as being 'the only nice wizard the goblins ever met.' It's silly really, and although it would not suprise me one bit to learn that the more racist wizards are pretty rude to the goblins, most wizards and witches are more likely to stick to a curt bussiness manner. Partially because the goblins make no secret of not liking humans, and partially because the magic users see no reason not to be particularily nice or rude as they'd like to get on with their shopping/bussiness.
Ancient House of Potter is often associated with 'Harry is the heir of (Merlin/Gryffindor/Slytherin/the Founders/God/_________)' It usually comes with a big library of with lots of books with powerful magic, more money in Gringotts than the current economy of Wizarding Britain (Or the United Kingdom, or the entire freaking world), which often crosses right over with 'goblins are nice as long as you have a really big account.'
Ancient magic being more powerful than wandwaving is not entirely stupid as long as the advantages of wandwaving are clear, that is, it's a lot faster, a lot less work, and it works perfectly fine for pretty much everything you want done. Usually, ancient magic is things like the animagus magic, or rituals where the question 'why doesn't everyone use these?' isn't properly answered.
Divination is AFAIK only shown as 'predicting the future' in canon, and few people realise that divination as a class of magic is more the magical equivelant of information and communication technologies, with a focus on information, than predictive modeling. Which, come to think of it, can be considered part of ICT.
Hermione Granger is as noted elsewhere pretty smart. Omnidisciplinarian super genius? Not so much. She's good at book learning and probably has the widest knowledge base and spell repertoire out of all of Harry's friends, she still puts in a lot more effort than most when it comes to actually learning stuff. If she were that smart she was a super genius, she wouldn't need to study nearly as much, nor be as much at a loss when things don't go quite as planned. Although she does have good planning/time management skills as a result of her needing to carefully husband her time.
Because of this, it's not entirely weird that the Wizarding World, which from all appearances lags behind the Muggles in many ways, also lags behind in sociocultural matters like views on romance and marriage. However, it's often used as a hamfisted way to get a pairing together or as a threat for the muggleborns/half bloods to conquer or be forced to marry pureblooded spouses selected for them by the surviving blood supremacists in an attempt to keep them muggleborns and half bloods suppressed as a powerblock.
Soul bonds look to me as a mostly romantic/idealistic trope used to highlight how 'right' the various pairings are and how important they are for eachother.
Goblins are often unusually and unrealistically helpful for Harry, especially when he's highlighted as being 'the only nice wizard the goblins ever met.' It's silly really, and although it would not suprise me one bit to learn that the more racist wizards are pretty rude to the goblins, most wizards and witches are more likely to stick to a curt bussiness manner. Partially because the goblins make no secret of not liking humans, and partially because the magic users see no reason not to be particularily nice or rude as they'd like to get on with their shopping/bussiness.
Ancient House of Potter is often associated with 'Harry is the heir of (Merlin/Gryffindor/Slytherin/the Founders/God/_________)' It usually comes with a big library of with lots of books with powerful magic, more money in Gringotts than the current economy of Wizarding Britain (Or the United Kingdom, or the entire freaking world), which often crosses right over with 'goblins are nice as long as you have a really big account.'
Ancient magic being more powerful than wandwaving is not entirely stupid as long as the advantages of wandwaving are clear, that is, it's a lot faster, a lot less work, and it works perfectly fine for pretty much everything you want done. Usually, ancient magic is things like the animagus magic, or rituals where the question 'why doesn't everyone use these?' isn't properly answered.
Divination is AFAIK only shown as 'predicting the future' in canon, and few people realise that divination as a class of magic is more the magical equivelant of information and communication technologies, with a focus on information, than predictive modeling. Which, come to think of it, can be considered part of ICT.
Hermione Granger is as noted elsewhere pretty smart. Omnidisciplinarian super genius? Not so much. She's good at book learning and probably has the widest knowledge base and spell repertoire out of all of Harry's friends, she still puts in a lot more effort than most when it comes to actually learning stuff. If she were that smart she was a super genius, she wouldn't need to study nearly as much, nor be as much at a loss when things don't go quite as planned. Although she does have good planning/time management skills as a result of her needing to carefully husband her time.