Sure, but then it's also said that Voldemort taking over the Ministry means he's taken over the government of the magical world. There's never any mention of foreign powers doing anything about him, not even the possibility is raised.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
It's rather heavily implied that outside things like the Tri-Wizard tournament and the World Cup of Quiddich that foreign wizards generally have little to do with each other. Even the fact that Ron's brother Bill was studying dragons abroad was considered really exceptional. So it's likely that Voldemort's antics were down played in other countries and seen as a purely local issue for the British Wizarding community.Thaluikhain said:
You can't mind control someone when they're a mile behind looking at your melon through a rifle scope (or better yet a Reaper drone): as I said before, Voldemort is not an enemy I would want to duel formally unless I were a player character from Warcraft or DragonAge or I was Dr. Strange because he is a dangerous individual combatant but the wand is just a conduit for him to channel incantations: it isn't a Green Lantern ring that will act of it's own accord to protect him or anything.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
On the other hand you can't shoot someone from a mike with a sniper rifle, or bomb them with a drone if that someone very nature bug electronics out, or they can become easily imperceptible. We're talking about a group of people who compressed a house between two houses that it shared dividing walls with, who made Hogwarts, an impressive landmark of a castle, totally invisible and uninteresting to muggles. We're talking about a group with reality bending powers, where if you're at a thousand paces, you might as well be on the other side of the world looking in the wrong direction. If drones and such worked with them, then obviously their secrets would be out in seconds, instead of what we're presented with, which is that no one has the slightest clue they even exist, outside of people who were specifically read into the secret. Hell they can even make people keep secrets on pain of magical death just for attempting to spill the beans.Gordon_4 said:
Well most of this I find is because the books started in the late 90's long before a load of these technologies existed (also, Guns are entirely a mechanical and chemical reaction - they do not use electricity to fire) and before the great social shifts caused by the reactions to the September 11 attacks. It's why I thought the opener to the movie Half Blood Prince (I think) comes across as so dumb since the movies obviously move with the times and the Death Eaters destroy the London Millennium Footbridge with dozens of people in it. The fucking security services would be all over that like flies on shit to say nothing of all the stuff that would be flooding social media within seconds if not during the even, and eventually someone will figure it out. Even if it was just the Director General of MI-5 going to the Prime Minister and asking "What the fuck?".KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
The point about electronics was more about the drones actually... Either way the Ministry, I assume the Death Eaters too, have a special division of just oblivators. Literally they go out and erase the evidence of magical mishaps that involve muggles, kind of like a magical Men in Black cover up division. You can't be all over the situation if your entire government is either in bed with covering these things up as a massive conspiracy, or so deeply penetrated by agents that the event is just erased from history totally. Besides it's fiction, where even the most plain of the recurring characters have some form of reality bending power. It's a mechanic of the narrative. I mean how come muggle radios don't pick up the wizard radio stations and such. Obviously the magical community in these books are really powerful, seeded everywhere, and can keep muggles from piecing together the smallest things about the magical community. It's a fantasical setting with a very, very tenuous connection to reality, that only applies when it's necessary for the plot.Gordon_4 said:
Some wackos posit that she got raped by the centaurs that carried her away, though evidence to this effect is flaky at best.Bob_McMillan said:
Trickery or subterfuge of some sort is usually how it goes.votemarvel said:
Centaurs Say: "What? With that deformed two-legged thing? Pray not, good wizard. For life is hard, but we are not so desperate."Johnny Novgorod said:
In Sorcerer's Stone:Thaluikhain said:
I always saw her as the ultimate evil bureaucrat. She may not be the actual Hitler of the story, but she's definitely one of the people who would flock to him. I mean, she may not be the one making the decisions from on high, but she's the type of person who would be carrying out his actual dirty work. I'm pretty sure she actually does fulfill that role in the 7th book. Technically her job is more petty, but I can get why she's more hateable.Phasmal said:
