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Ah, but there are very rationale rules of magic in the Harry Potter series, rules that simply are not violated in the films. In fact, it's really quite easy for a film or story to get away with any "rules" of magic they'd like; simply set it up. Explain it with some dialogue or demonstration, and literally anything's possible.
I just think Pirates set up the rules of its curse in a most sloppy and haphazard way. The only dialogue explanation really given is that the moonlight reveals the cursed as they really are. And it is demonstrated that newbies to the curse are instantly skeletons ... and, yes, skeletons with raggedly clothing - the better to see their skelliness. But yeah, if a curse or magic also acts upon your clothing, for effect that is purely show and zero curse, I want that told to me.
Otherwise, it's the rules of cartoon magic where hats stay on no matter what.
In the generally accepted rules of live-action magic ... if, for example, you were shrunk to the size of a sandwich, you'd be left swimming in your suddenly-oversized clothing. In cartoon magic, your clothes are shrunk with you. I don't like cartoon magic mixed in with my live-action magic without so much as a faire thee well.
And while I'm at it ... all through the movie, cursed pirates are shown to recover from bullet holes and knife wounds INSTANTLY. Yet, there's time for a line or two of dialogue and some meaningful glances between the time Barbossa is shot and the time Will drops the coin and his blood into the Aztec treasure chest. I call shenanigans. The magic in this film is poorly explained, has absurdities not reckoned with the audience, and follows its internal rules if and when it wants to.
Perhaps the Pirate Code can be more like guidelines, but magic must not be.
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