Muggle with gun vs wizard11/28/2023 ![]() ![]() It may not have been the right decision, but it's one that is easy enough to make sense of. So I think it does make plenty of sense that they would have made the decision to go into hiding back when the Statute of Secrecy was passed - even just because of persecution. Even if nobody could actually harm you, you don't wanna be a figure of hate and fear in your community do you? I mean, it's the same reason Lupin tried to hide he was a werewolf at Hogwarts. You'd essentially have to conceal your identity anyway. In such a situation, of course it makes sense that they would form their own community. You could put the fire out with magic if you were there. I mean, if you go out and your house gets burnt down, it may not be so easy to put it back - even with magic. So even if people's attempts to do you harm are more of a minor annoyance - who wants to be a figure of hate and bigotry? Who wants to be hated by their neighbours, unable to find a place in the society around them? Who wants to be the target of abuse and maybe real and serious crimes that magic can't fix - at least, not if you weren't there at the time. No, it seems more that there are many ways to persecute people, many manifestations of prejudice and hatred. I just wanted to undercut any assumption that their magic would be enough to keep them completely safe. But that doesn't seem to have been what the witches and wizards were most afraid of, since the Muggles went about it in all the wrong ways. Being stabbed or shot in certain areas will still be fatal unless another wizard arrives very quickly.īut yeah, even at the time they went into hiding in the first place, again, the Muggles had plenty of capacity to do them harm. But that's always assuming you've got a chance. Magic also gives you incredible abilities to be healed - even from horrible physical injuries, with little mess and little fuss. But that wouldn't be much use against a sniper, for example. You could probably use magic to deflect or stop bullets - if you knew you were about to be shot at. However, thinking about these days, Muggles have quite a lot of technology and weaponry. I mean, if you imagine some kind of magic vs Muggle war, I think the wizards would probably win, because their magic gives them an extraordinary capacity to do harm, as well as resist harm. They're vulnerable, even though magic can explode out of them in life or death situations, yes, they're still very vulnerable to attack. Also, think about the children of witches and wizards, who don't have as much magic, or control over it. And remember there aren't that many magical people, compared to Muggles. Don't confuse magic - especially the magic of Harry Potter - with omnipotence. The first thing to think about is that witches and wizards don't seem to be immune to physical injury, theft, the burning of their property, dynamite, cyanide and other poisons, etc., etc. However the magical community was forced into hiding (citation needed) by persecution, so I would argue that they did feel under some threat. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - p.7 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 1, Owl Post Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burnt so much that she allowed herself to be caught no fewer than forty-seven times in various disguises. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame-Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. ![]() ![]() On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. Non-magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognising it. Harry pushed his round glasses up his nose, moved his torch closer to the book and read: The quill paused at the top of a likely-looking paragraph. Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, 'Witch-Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless - discuss.' They don't say that actual witches died - indeed, the subject of Harry's essay suggests quite the opposite: ![]()
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