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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.

Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it.

1. It was Wizarding WWII, not sure what they had going on during WWI, but Wizard War I was Grindlewald doing his own ethnic clensing on muggles.
2. They covered what happens if you see a Basilisk indirectly. You get petrified. Stopping the basilisk before it actually killed someone rather than just petrifying them was the entire plot arc of Chamber of Secrets.
3. It's implied that muggle tech doesn't work at Hogwarts because of all the magical influence for some reason, and outright stated during Goblet of Fire.

I only quoted how much I actually read, because honestly those ideas were dumb enough on their own and I couldn't take more. Did you even read the books?
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