Why does nobody fight Lord Voldemort?

[Joel Dawson]

I always wondered why nobody carried a gun. Seriously, you can block magic pretty conviently. You know what you can't block? A peice of sharpened lead flying at you at mach 4.

Wizards tend to be pretty arrogant about themselves. Most see all the muggle technology as inferior.

OT: Because most people feared this man who could and would kill you in seconds flat and commanded an army of people, giants, and dementors who would do the same. Also, I believe I heard some of Harry Potter is supposed to be an allegory for World War III. If so, then I would say this is supposed to stand for the appeasement policy towards Hitler's rise to power.

 

[MrJKapowey]

Seriously, even if he can block bullets, why not just hide someone in one of Hogwarts' towers with a Cheytac M200 - when he does that speech thing shoot him in the head. His brains will be everywhere befroe anyone hears the noise...

 

[Thaluikhain]

Just find the pålace where he respawns after getting killed due to horcruxes, and spawn-camp his sorry ass with a sniper team, untill he rage-quits.

Ok, this is the best idea for killing Voldemort.

Also, sadly, one of the most sensible.

 

[Baneat]

Guns are referred to twice. Vernon points one at Hagrid in The Philosopher's Stone, and Hagrid twists the barrel in response. Also, it's referred to as a "Crude metal wand which muggles use to kill each other".

Wizards automatically react to regular danger so it's likely that you couldn't shoot one successfully.

As for fighting him head-on the only people with the balls to do it are smart enough to know they can't kill him either because of the horcruxes or because he's too skilled a caster.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

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

Brirs...aw so cute. Anyhoo nobody fights back because JK's brain runs on fairy dust and not logic. That and he surrounds himself with people who fear him and only kills weak people. He's frightened of an old guy for fecks sake I don't care how 'powerful' Dumbledore is he'd be too busy fantasizing about Harry ramming Ron up the arse to notice Voldemort creeping up behind him to...yell Avada Kedavra. Also the douche is defeated by a baby at the height of his power (in a contrived and idiotic way that JK pulled out her arse like Dumbledore's anal beads) and then he was defeated again by the same guy only now he's a slack jawed idiot who defeats him by luck...so just like the first time really.

Yeah this shite would never happen anywhere to be honest. At least not without Voldemort giving speeches to idiots who follow him blindly, you can't rule with fear alone because people will rise up before you can do anything as significant as take over the motherfucking government!

 

[Scrumpys]

I know everyones saving the killing curse wouldn't work on him, but didn't they say it was unblockable in one the books? I mean when it rebounded off harry it didnt' kill him permanently, but it did get him out of the way for like 14 years.

 

[Gwarr]

If this guy

Spoiler: click

challenges you to a duel , do you fight or run?

 

[CGAdam]

People like Harry's father did fight, and Voldemort killed them for it. Thing is, anyone brave enough to stand up to Voldemort WOULD fight, but they couldn't win. Everyone else was too afraid of him to fight.

 

[Farson89]

Also the president of the Uk knew the existence of Voldie.

That's curious considering the fact that the UK has never had a president.

 

[Ephyon]

What SENSIBLE wizards should have done >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYWT5Q_R_w

OT: C'mon, you're telling me that the wizards are too proud to ask the Prime Minister for help? Heck, the least they could've done was hire maybe Blackwater (now known as Xe Services). The Ministry of Magic is screwing up at their job of keeping their part of the world away from the Muggle world by letting some punkass noseless wizard loose upon them.

Seriously, I'm pretty sure Muggle military would be a nasty surprise for them since you know, they look down upon Muggles like insects.

I would like to see Voldemort block a tank shell and try to Avada Kedavra through tank armor.

 

[Kuroneko97]

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?

My reasoning for that is because the Harry Potter universe was meant to be kind of a medieval world. Sure, it may be a modern time, but perhaps wizards have just kept a rather sheltered life from muggles. It may be that wizards prefer their magic over technology, or they think it is above technology in some narcissistic way. Or it could be possible that most of the younger witches and wizards do actually know about technology, or at least a little more than adults.

Besides, owls are epic. I'd use an owl over texting any day. One of my friends writing at their desk and suddenly an owl with a letter starts tapping at their window and they're like "WTF?"

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Sniper round to the noseless noggin, and down he goes, just in time for tea.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Because he had Plot Armor, and the only known ***** in said armor was named Potter

Yup. His Plot Armor was powered by Maguffins too.
Stupid Hoarcruxes..

 

[Baneat]

I know everyones saving the killing curse wouldn't work on him, but didn't they say it was unblockable in one the books? I mean when it rebounded off harry it didnt' kill him permanently, but it did get him out of the way for like 14 years.

Unblockable, but you can apparate away from it. It's also too potent to be castable without shouting it, and apparition isn't so no chance of being beside him and blasting him. Voldemort can probably sense magic coming towards him also, he's never hit with a direct spell.

 

[Svenparty]

Any story issue in a fantasy universe can be solved with "Because they have magic". The same can be applied to Sci Fi just replace "Magic" with "Science".

 

[moloha]

Also the president of the Uk knew the existence of Voldie.

That's curious considering the fact that the UK has never had a president.

Yeah, my bad =.= Prime minister I wanted to say.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I always wondered why nobody carried a gun. Seriously, you can block magic pretty conviently. You know what you can't block? A peice of sharpened lead flying at you at mach 4.

You do realise it's a story about magic right? The wizards can block whatever the plot requires them to block. They could also apparate to a different spot behind you, or make your gun fly out of your hand, or make it jam. Even if you did succeed in shooting them they could probably just heal themselves so long as it wasn't an instant kill... which it wouldn't be... because they're wizards.