If magical beings who can conjure matter, teleport, and manipulate the physical universe can be picked off as easily as "Hur hur, drop bombs on them--WIN!" then how the hell did the Axis lose against regular humans?
Wizards stomp. They're not some mobilized tank division, infantry battalion or a city. They're individuals who can literally vanish in an instant and practically hoodwink the entire muggle world in to making them think they don't even exist. What's an artillery spotter gonna do?
Originally posted by Creshosk
This is why I don't buy the "We don't hate it we're indifferent!" That and the "You vs Harry Potter thread."Do people honestly think they have a chance against someone who can disarm you with a word and a wave of his hand? That can knock you down just as easily?
I'm curious as to how the germans and Japanese will be able to find the wizards in the first place.
Not to mention the Enola Gay was a US bomber. The Opponents are only the German and Japanese.
Indifferent my arse.
We need a "like" button on KMC. hmm
Anyway, yeah. My post was ignored before others started posting things that would definitely not happen.
Any muggles (this does not include people like super heroes, uber force users, and so forth. I don't consider those types to be strictly muggles) short of futuristic magic detecting muggles, will always lose against just a handful of adult HP wizards, always. There is no exception.
Seems to me that Voldy and the death eaters need only half apparate and bomb from up high with fiendfyre until the job is done. The rest of the wizards can simply remain safe at Hogwarts. The shield charm will protect them from any attack thrown at them. Repello Muggletum will keep them safe too.
Why is this even being discussed?
Well its shits and giggles thread clearly.
Also probably 'cause the sorts of explosive volleys coming in off of those naval destroyers, V2s, bombs etc etc, are fierce. And the maximum shown feat of Potter wizards shields is way below that level.
If the Hogawarts lot gather back at the castle, then they are one managable target for the attacks.
Originally posted by Sadako of GirthSee, that's the beauty of it, the humans won't know where to shoot. And the shields will hold.
Well its shits and giggles thread clearly.
Also probably 'cause the sorts of explosive volleys coming in off of those naval destroyers, V2s, bombs etc etc, are fierce. And the maximum shown feat of Potter wizards shields is way below that level.If the Hogawarts lot gather back at the castle, then they are one managable target for the attacks.
Arresto Momentum will slow/stop any bombardment enough so that it is a standstill. At that point, target practice.
And they still have to contend with half apparating wizards (invincible to any attack thrown at them) and dementors.
This, DDM nailed it:
Originally posted by dadudemon
Indeed, we'd have no chance.Also, even if we tried to mount a surprise attack against the magical peeps, we'd lose horribly and even fail the "surprise" attack route: the wizarding community has these silly things called prophecies and they have a HUGE hall dedicated to capturing and reviewing these prophecies.
Additionally, the Wizards have spells that make attacking them impossible: invisible charm, anti-muggle charm, shield charms, anti-tech charms, etc. We'd fail, horribly, to attack them as a handful of average wizards could kill almost all of the world's leaders in less than five minutes.
Then there's the Death Eaters that have a "smoke" form that makes harming them impossible unless you're a wizard.
And then there's the problem of the Wizards being able to parade about as the world leaders (a la Mystique from X-2 and 3). They do this with polyjuice potion.
And then there's the problem of the Dementors: no way for a muggle to kill them and no defense for a muggle against them. The dementors would love nothing more than to have free reign on all of the muggles but the wizarding community keeps them in check.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
I have no particular problem with a wizard win here, as long as it can be shown that all his powers actually work outside the realm of Hogwarts just as they do IN hogwarts.Smoke can be blasted apart.
Dementors might sound like they'd PWN since nukes sound out of the question in this scenario.
His.....Who? Wizard powers work the same all over the world.
If an explosive round happens to hit where a half apparating wizard is flying, it'll go right through them, and they won't be harmed.
How many nukes were around in WWII, and who had them? I suck at history haermm