#Wizards with guns how to#
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Even with the safety issue at hand, the advantages of using guns on pure-blood Deatheaters who don't have them, don't know what they are, and have never seen a gun before in their lives far outweigh the risks, considering that this is a life and death conflict.

#Wizards with guns how to#

Not having any formal training in how to use firearms has NEVER stopped anyone engaging in irregular/guerrilla warfare.

There's a reason that firearms instructors tell people applying for concealed-carry permits that if they don't intend to put proper effort into learning how to use them, they should not carry them.

What stops them is that neither Harry or Hermione have ever had the slightest amount of training in how to use firearms, have nowhere they can go to get such training, and that they have enough common sense to figure out that the proper description for people who go out intending to get into gunfights without ever having trained to use guns is 'idiots'.

Therefore, we are looking into defenses against these weapons, and are arming ourselves with them. Also, one killing curse every few seconds has nothing on a rate of fire of ten bullets per second, each plenty lethal.

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It would undermine everything they believe in if Voldy came to the next monthly Death Eater meeting and announced, 'It turns out that magic is of remarkably little use when one is too full of bullets to cast it. And they're way too arrogant and self-superior to ever do any research into Muggle weapons, even if they're getting killed by them. A handful of people armed with these and trained in basic marksmanship could have eliminated Voldy and any of his cronies before they'd even realized they were under attack. And it operates on purely mechanical principles, so the magical wizard plot field of inconvenience shouldn't have any effect. This easily outpaces any wand and out-ranges most (if not all) of the magic that we've seen. An old, cheap, easy-to-acquire (in the right places) AK-47 has a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute and an effective range of 300 meters. Given that they're in hiding throughout the last book since their main enemy has taken over the government, why don't either of the Muggle-raised main characters (Harry or Hermione) realize just how good an idea getting a lethal weapon that doesn't require pure hatred to use would be? Such as, say, a gun.Muggles and squibs are characterized by the lack of this magic as a result they cannot use magic, dangerous situation or otherwise. Wands by themselves rarely, if ever, perform magic, but rather operate as channels for the natural magic inherent within the wizard or witch that holds it. There doesn't seem to be any reason I can think of to believe it would do anything in that scenario.In a hypothetical scenario where a muggle or squib is aware of magic and are trapped in a dangerous, life-threatening scenario, if there's a wand nearby and they grab it in an attempt to protect themselves or someone they care about, will: 1) nothing happen? 2) the wand release whatever leftover energy is stored up in a disastrous and uncontrolled manner? or 3) the wand make a conscious decision to either improve the situation with the little magic it has or to make the situation worse depending on its feelings with regards to the person holding it? Essentially, how sapient is a wand, and how much control does a wand possess with regards to what it does whilst being weilded by certain people?.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

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