Why does nobody fight Lord Voldemort?

[Vortigar]

In the end we're still talking about books for children. You'd destroy the romantic idea of magic that the series is based on. You could say that magic equals guns in the HP universe.

It's illegal to own a gun in any shape or form in the UK. So there's a moral quandary there.

Rowling made a (absolutely correct) artistic choice to not put guns into the series. The debate on whether or not it would've worked is pointles.

Let me put it this way, would you have liked the HP movies to be directed by Michael Bay? If your answer is yes than you like the idea of guns in HP. If no, congrats, you're sane.

As for a funnier thought on this: remember that the Accio spell can fetch any item and you can get very messy gunfights. So maybe the Deatheaters have a club of novice members running around scrounging up all the guns.

 

[Seagoon]

Because wizards aren't the smartest of people. Let me just say he's lucky he started his shit in Britain and not North America. No offense to the Brirs, but us North Americans would have done it right the first time. Lol

DUDE, MAN, LIKE TOTALLY! US MERICANS WOULD LIEK TOTALLY BE AWESOME IN A WAR GAINST A DARK AND SEMI IMMORTAL WIZARD! JUST LIEK WE GOT RID OF THA INJUNS AND THA COMMIES!

OT: because he's always in hiding, has made a bunch of horcruxes, and He's an epic fighter!

PS: I'm English...

 

[Seagoon]

I'd like to see him pull his shit in East London.

He'd get shanked... proper big cock up, blud... proper big...

 

[Kolby Jack]

What I don't get is why the prime minister of the UK knew about Voldemort but didn't get the SAS to snipe him or cut his throat. Last I checked, wizards weren't immune to bullets. Which highlights probably the biggest plot hole in Harry Potter:

Guns are about 8000 times more useful than the killing curse. The other 2 curses are useful as hell (for evil folk), but the killing curse is pretty lame. Oh yea, I can kill Dumbledore from 30ish feet away while screaming at the top of my lungs, or I could put a 50 caliber round through his skull from 1000 yards away. Dead is dead, doesn't matter if magic caused it. Yes I know it's a children's book. Shut up.

Edit: and even if he's immortal, just shoot him in the brain, take his wand while he's on the ground writhing in pain, and throw him in a maximum security prison. His little cohorts aren't immortal, so if they try to come get him, SHOOT THEM TOO.

 

[Seagoon]

Heres a fucking idea, bring an AK 47 to the fight. He is going to look pretty stupid waving his small wooden stick.

a wand is kind of like a sniper with aimbot and insta-kill... just sayin..

Plus you can deflect bullets with it..

 

[DracoSuave]

Hmmm... I wonder why, in a magic world where things like prophesy is real... that some nasty individual who is eager to kill with two words, has a legion of equally motivated followers...

has the benefit of being impossible to kill, what with him surviving death once already..

...and has a prophesy stating that only a single individual can bring his downfall, that individual being a single boy...

...why they wouldn't go after him.

Man this question's really hard.

I should think about this for two seconds.

 

[RocksW]

Would you fight a mugger? In real life? Voldemort spares people occasionally doesn't he? :L

 

[Simon Pettersson]

What I don't get is why the prime minister of the UK knew about Voldemort but didn't get the SAS to snipe him or cut his throat. Last I checked, wizards weren't immune to bullets.

Uhm yeah how are you gonna find the guy first of all? He really don´t show him self for Mugger(spell?). And even if you found him getting in close to knife him would be like getting a black guy in to a white power rally.

Maybe they could snipe him I don´t know if he really have any defence against that. Except that his surrounded by Death eaters and rarely shows him self for the snipers.

Edit: wow thats why I thought it was bad spelling moggles and muggers are completley different

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Cause he'll be a firin' his lazor at you if you do.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

What I don't get is why the prime minister of the UK knew about Voldemort but didn't get the SAS to snipe him or cut his throat. Last I checked, wizards weren't immune to bullets.

Uhm yeah how are you gonna find the guy first of all? He really don´t show him self for Mugger(spell?). And even if you found him getting in close to knife him would be like getting a black guy in to a white power rally.

Maybe they could snipe him I don´t know if he really have any defence against that. Except that his surrounded by Death eaters and rarely shows him self for the snipers.

Edit: wow thats why I thought it was bad spelling moggles and muggers are completley different

As are muggles which is what you are going for as I am certainly not a moogle.

 

[Lynx]

And also that fact that he could slaughter anyone in 10 seconds flat?

This, and not to mention he had a pretty ginormous league of Death Eaters ready to torture you and kill off your entire family if you even thought about trying it. But there were plenty who tried, ever heard of The First Wizarding War? (Wow, I feel... so cool right now...)

 

[Kolby Jack]

What I don't get is why the prime minister of the UK knew about Voldemort but didn't get the SAS to snipe him or cut his throat. Last I checked, wizards weren't immune to bullets.

Uhm yeah how are you gonna find the guy first of all? He really don´t show him self for Mugger(spell?). And even if you found him getting in close to knife him would be like getting a black guy in to a white power rally.

Maybe they could snipe him I don´t know if he really have any defence against that. Except that his surrounded by Death eaters and rarely shows him self for the snipers.

Edit: wow thats why I thought it was bad spelling moggles and muggers are completley different

Fine, have the SAS or MI6 or whatever follow Harry around discreetly and pop a cap in the ass of anyone who attacks him.

 

[Malkavian]

Fair enough, although given that the wizarding world obviously has some contact with the outside world, the fact that they lack real world objects that are superior to their stuff is beyond me. Why send an owl instead of text?

Additionally guns aren't really high tech, assault rifles are actually closing in on 100 years old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedorov_Avtomat and supersonic bullets have been around since at least the American Revolution.

My guess it's a question about how their society evolved. We know that the wizarding world is very removed from normal society. Few Wizards mingle with "the muggles", and it will stay that way because their cultures are very different. The Wizarding world has eolved independently of the real world, and that means a whole different set of technology. Wizards can do so many things with the wave of a wand, so where the real world would invent something to make life easier, the wizards would have a spekk for it instead. As a consequence, a whole lot of the things we take for granted in the real world, is not used by the wizards, simply because they dont need it. And that's why they dont have guns. It will simply not occur to them, if they even know of their existence.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

As are muggles which is what you are going for as I am certainly not a moogle.

I hate the Wizard language .....

What I don't get is why the prime minister of the UK knew about Voldemort but didn't get the SAS to snipe him or cut his throat. Last I checked, wizards weren't immune to bullets.

Uhm yeah how are you gonna find the guy first of all? He really don´t show him self for Mugger(spell?). And even if you found him getting in close to knife him would be like getting a black guy in to a white power rally.

Maybe they could snipe him I don´t know if he really have any defence against that. Except that his surrounded by Death eaters and rarely shows him self for the snipers.

Edit: wow thats why I thought it was bad spelling moggles and muggers are completley different

Fine, have the SAS or MI6 or whatever follow Harry around discreetly and pop a cap in the ass of anyone who attacks him.

I wouldn´t want that job >.<
The kid has a coat that makes him invisible and they can teleport.

 

[moloha]

Voldemorts power came from his death eaters (mainly) They are not immortal. Just mow those fuckers down and leave him alone against a whole horde of teachers and students. Yeah, he is invincible, but harry and those lads were destroying his horcruxes. If you destroyed his body he would be helpless. Harry then could destroy them things and ta-daaah! Crisis averted!

Also the president of the Uk knew the existence of Voldie. So why the hell didn't he just send an elite team and get it over with? After the operation their memories could be wiped.

 

[Maeta]

Um, other than him being immortal until all the Horcruxes were destroyed?

But surely if you just 'killed' him, then that chunk of soul would 'die', and it'd be back like at the start of the series. Then just bring him back and kill him again until it was all gone? Have I missed something, or do wizards lack that logic?

 

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

Voldemort still needs air to breathe though. There could be a way to trick him into stepping in a vacuum chamber.

And then we'd fill that chamber with hot, liquid metal to encase him for the rest of his live, immortal or not. Maybe even throw him into the sun like Superman does.

 

[goldendriger]

They should use a Muggle-going-away-stick...like an AK-47.
It takes about 1 second to say "Avada kedavra" and i can fire 600 rounds a minute, ive emptied 1/3 of my clip into your face before you can finish your spell.

GG Voldemort