I also hoard money which is another bad habit which does not benefit you in this particular game

Hardly any enemys, not a lot of motivation to free play, pain in A*S to actually find characters to buy, and more money than you ever need!

the publisher / developer are playing off / ignoring the issue and untold numbers of people are wasting the money.. do a google search on lego harry potter freezing and see what I mean.

I'm looking forward to year 5 -7 and am glad I didn't waste my money.

People get getting stuck at the same spot report it to the company and they do nothing about it because they don't want to lose money.