However when looking at someone, who isn't necessarily a elite soldier, but is sufficiently competent at using a firearm and willing to, it's a different matter. An advantage that wizards have being they are much more used to casting non-lethal spells on each other can be used in self-defense. How much damage could he do at a command meeting, if he really wanted to? You aren't comparing like to like, if it came to war, the wizards wouldn't stand in an open field waiting to be bombedIt's true that the typical muggle might struggle to use a firearm, main difficulty being the whole killing part. What people need to consider is that Aurors and the like seem to be able to blend in perfectly -Kingsley Shacklebolt can get a job in Downing Street as a matter of course. What people are persistently doing is comparing an office worker with combat abilities like Arthur Weasley to elite soldiers of the muggle world. A brick wall doesn't have to know what a bullet is to not be penetrated by it. I'm not saying Protego will block everything thrown at it, but it might, so you can't assume it won't. So yes, it does block a sustained assault, assuming your target is standing still, and at the first respite, they will apparate miles away. Nor is it only valid for one attack, as it can be used to block a hail of arrows. If it's just creating a wall, a thick enough wall can stop a bullet and a punch. We do not know if a magical shield will block a bullet. Even if they don't know what it is, they're familiar with pointing things that kill people, that's all it's necessary to know. They're there before he is, I think they'd notice the giant machine gun he was carrying beforehand. Are museum display guns kept loaded? Would Harry be a good shot? Would the Death Eaters continue trying to take him alive once they started dying? Does the gun need two hands to use? Can it easily be moved if they Apparate behind him? How does he ambush them? They don't become visible until after he takes the prophecy. Later on, Harry and Ron would accio RPG or LAws or something while Dumbledore is fighting Voldemort - not killing him, nut distracting the heck out of him so that Dumbles severes his wand hand, which Dobby pings over and grab (and Neville, in a fit of hoeric crazy, flips him the double bird ans Vody runs off), and while Fudge turns up and makes wordless squeaks and gurglings as he sees the sate of the atrium, Dobby makes a crack about how he "is always saying he is needing an extra hand in the kitchen" and everyone has a good laugh, albiet a slightly hysterical one, because post-battle with death-eaters. If Harry, for example, had sent Dobby to go an nick a Browning Heavy Machine Gun from a museum or something and fix it up and then ambush the Death Eaters in the Department of Secrets 1, I doubt very much the Death Eaters would shrug it off, as they'd likely dead before Dobby finished shouting "you is eating lead, you sons of witches!"ġWhich strangely specific scenario comes from my "stories that I will never write" musings. putting muggle weapons in the hands of a few wizards or squids and letting them go to town on the bad guys, perhaps. Note that I'm not specficially suggesting muggle-verses-wizard, so much as muggle- technology-verses wizard. But I suspect the surprise element would be very telling of you shot a death-eater with a gun., If wizards had their heads out of their own posteriors, all this could be dealt with at the very least on the tactical level. ("Unblockable" in the sense of "can be dodged or intercepted with Stuff.") We don't know, but the general suggestion of how the universe would seem to suggest there are few if any unilaterally effective anythings, with the possible exception of the "unblockable" Killing Curse. Will protego protect against double-tap or automatic fire? A sustained assault? How long does protego last? Even if it stops one bullet, while your wizard is holding protego - if you can even sustain it for periods (that's going to use effort, HP spells aren't "x rounds a level" like D&D) - they're not doing anything else. So one would assume there is a certain point past which protego cannot handle the energy output.įor that matter. Then it unilaterally stops kinetic energy, whether it's a bullet or a magically hurled boulder - I find it hard to believe protego makes wizards safe from having a literal mountain dropped on them. Remember, if protego unilaterally stops kinetic energy.
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