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When he went to the party I don't think he was really looking to kill Dent but rather to begin the process of turning Dent into what he hated. Otherwise he'd have killed Dent the same way as he did the commissioner and judge.
Plus, as he admitted to Batman that he did for a while think that Dent was Batman based on the way he jumped out the window after Gyllenhall. So, the fact that Dent was in a closet is irrelevant if The Joker thinks he just jumped out a window. So yeah, they could have shown him leaving, but I don't think it was really necessary.
As far as Maggie goes, the character was so one dimensional and simply there to provide motivations to others that she could equally well have been played by Eddie from Frasier. Sure on the acting skill scale she was a step up from Holmes, but she wasn't really ever asked to use that skill. All I know is that she better really be dead in the inevitable future movies (and I'd really just prefer that they rest on their laurels now).
Another aside, I think Nolan set up a "Lady and the Tiger" discussion piece with the ferries. If one of the boats really had pressed the trigger, which boat do you think would have gone up? Personally, I love the idea that the switch really would have blown up the boat on which it was pressed, the people on the other boat would all know that they hadn't done it but the rest of the world would forever believe they did.
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