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Originally Posted by hermi-nomi Umm ... I think guns would probably work within a magical environment such as Hogwarts. It's only muggle electrical equiptment such as computer s that don't work (properly.) As to guns being an advantage against wizards ... well, they would only be an advantage in the same way that guns are used to the villiams advantage against a muggle ~ that is, by the element of suprise or coercion. In a duel, the competant wizard will still have an advantage over a gun wielding muggle in that a wizard can cast non-verbal spells (see HBP chp7(?) |
Hmm... I guess that makes sense. I mean, Colin Creevys camera still worked in Hogwarts. Assuming that its a manual camera. I don't think any of the new ones would work.
I'm very unfamilar with guns.. mostly because I am anti-gun in all directions. But this is besides the point.. were talking about Harry potter. I think most older guns are just mechanics and no electronics. Do newer guns, say, Automatics, do they have electronic equipment to make the bullets shoot faster... or is that all mechanics?
And whos to say they couldn't come up with a spell to disable a gun within an area. I mean.. I would think with some of the spells we've seen, that its something they could certainly develop.
The thing I've always though of... is....
Lets say there was a Nuclear Bomb somewhere near a Magical town or say like, Hogwarts. Obviously the affect of the bomb would seep into the town.. or would it? I mean... she wrote in the books that Muggles could walk to the edges of hogwarts, but then be hit with a spell that makes them remeber something they needed to do, go back the way they came. So its not like they are in a totally seperate universe or paralel.
I know this is all just speculation over an imaginary place... but its still interesting to explore the imagination, even if it is a bit dreary... But then again.. she does try to tie in the real world with the magical world.
I would think that if there was a Nuclear fallout, the magical world would stop the bombs. Turn em into like... a big bomb of mashed potatoes or something. Or a Fizzing Wisbee.
