Why does nobody fight Lord Voldemort?

[AtheistConservative]

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

I'd just like to point out that the real people who live in Britain at the minute don't actually skip around old medival schools with elegant robes and little twigs.

You see, this is why I hate Harry Potter. All the yanks think that's what we act like.

If some ponce in a robe and a fishface would have come into a bar pointing a twig at people and threatened them. A cacophony of flying bottles and glasses would have found their way to his face. Soon followed by the jeering of enraged drunks as a barraged of boots meet the fish mutants head as he cowers on the floor, trying to pick the glass from his eyeballs.

Our yobs more than make up for the lack of guns with sheer aggression and the ability to contain an unearthly amount of booze.

Basically what you're talking about is a mass charge similar to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_charge which was greatly inferior to automatic weapons.

OT: Ok so say Voldemort or wizards in general have some sort of counter to conventional firearms. The wizards enchant EVERYTHING, but apparently a gun would be too difficult.

Also when the Death Eaters attacked the big Quidditch tournament, everyone there has a wand, conceivably has heard of defensive spells, so what's the problem?

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I'm sorry, I'm trying to read your comments but all I can see is:

Herp-a-derp, .50 cal, herp-a-derp, guns, herp-a-derp, snipers, herp-a-derp, 'MERICUH...

It's shown that a joke shop can mass produce hats with a permanent shield enchantment on them. If guns ever became an isssue for wizards then it wouldn't be a hard problem to solve.

 

[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.

The thing I was thinking about was how slow spells are. There's a required action for it, and I think someone can shoot somebody in the face before a wizard could even make the wand movements and incantation required for whatever the plot protection would be.

Most wouldn't need an incantation and the wand movements really aren't that slow, no slower than the time it would take you to raise the gun. Your only hope would be to sneak up behind and get a shot off at them before they realised you were there, but if you did that the guy you would be doing it to would just be so powerful he'd have some kind of magic sixth sense that would mean he'd know you were there and then proceed to fuck you up. You see what plot protection is capable of?

Whatever, it's fiction at the end of the day and Harry Potter is far from the worst when it comes to asking the reader to ignore logic every now and then. I say just roll with it.

 

[Instinct Blues]

It wouldn't do anything to kill him because he had the horcruxes hidden away. So while they may have destroyed his body his sould would still be protected. Also it has been well established in the books that Lord Voldemort was second, in terms of wizard power and intellect, to Dumbledore. He also could duel three highly skilled wizards at once without much of a problem. So really any one wizard trying to fight him would pretty much get their ass handed to them.

 

[brainslurper]

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..

Fine. Bring an apache, see if it can deflect missiles AND bullets at the same time.

 

[traineesword]

Don't apply logic to the Harry Potter universe, like at all. It doesn't make any sense...

What this guy said. This is a world where 13/14 year old girls are entrusted with objects allowing them to traverse time.

EDIT: thinking on it, traverse isn't actually the right term, as it only lets them go back in time... then they have to wait up to the point they went back in time to start living normally again... gosh that would seriously mess up hold old you were

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Well for a start he?s an obscenely skilled and powerful wizard with nothing holding him back, not empathy or taboo. Along with that everyone, an entire society of people and more was terrified by him. It wasn?t just regular fear it was something that ingrained itself there, it never left even when people thought he was dead, and it transferred over to a generation that wasn?t even there to witness the horrors he caused.

In the end he wasn't even defeated by another person, he killed himself.

 

[EradiusLore]

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

that might actually be true, what with so many americans being hicks and owning guns, though i doubt their would be many wizards from america, at least ones that could come up with such convoluted plans as seen in HP. i can imagine the american wizards being a bit more ready to resort to violence and fighting then the ones in britain

 

[Scarim Coral]

I guesing that most wizards and witches in HP universe were a bunch of sissy and coward. I mean they were so afraid of Voldermort that they had to use refer him as "you know who" or "he who must not be name" etc.

 

[Saltyk]

It's worth noting that the killing curse is just the only curse which is unblockable and impossible to survive, no matter what you do.
It's by no means the only way to kill someone, Pettigrew (a pretty shitty wizard by most standards) successfully blows up a street with a simple curse and kills a good lot of people.

The crap of using a gun is he probably has a shield up all the time, the guy's cunning as anything and not to be taken lightly, if he didn't have a shield up a wizard could assassinate him from 1000 yards just as easily after all.
As for shielding spells being visible that clearly isn't the case, Hogwarts is constantly under several protection spells, Watson casts a ton when they set up camp. Neither has any visible impact, the great shield was different.

As to the OP, well it's been said people are shit scared of him and rightly so. Some people do fight and they almost all died. Moody was meant to be an extremely powerful auror and he didn't even slow the big V down. He took on several powerful wizards at once with seeming ease and dismissed them the same, he duelled Dumbledore to a draw despite lacking the elder wand for chrissakes.

What I didn't find believable was Voldemorts plan to conquer the muggles. Thing about us muggles is we got guns and tactical missile strikes. So I think that war would have been over quick.

Conversely I think a gun toting bullet wizard would be really cool. He or she could have wands built into a pair of pistols and do crazy bullet magic.

I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I have friends that are and have discussed a few plot holes and such with them. One thing I remember being told is that Voldemort truly sees muggles as inferior. And considering that the world of wizards has no clue about technology, even IF he knows about guns, he probably thinks they are no threat to him. Therefore, I doubt he has any kind of shield up to protect himself from bullets. He also probably thinks it would be pretty easy for a small group of wizards to conquer non-magic users. What do they know about war or fighting after all? Basically, he is supremely arrogant.

OT: Um... He has over 9000 plot armor?

 

[Ammutseba]

Because he's a fictional character, duh...