How will Battle commence?

[ecuman24]

No: HPFGUIDX 38238

Grey Wolf writes
> 
> The fact is that, except maybe Dementors, the wizard world would be 
> overrun in a matter of days if it was to declare war on the muggle 
> world. Let's check the numbers (and in a war, numbers id the only 
thing 
> that matters). Aproximate world wizard population: 100 million (and 
> even that is exagerating). Muggle world: over 6000 million. Muggles 
> have guns, missiles, flamethrowers, chemical weapons, tanks, and a 
very 
> long etc. Wizards have "gas explosions" (Peter's explosion) and AK, 
> which has to be aimed and still kills only one. A giant can be 
killed 
> easily, with a tank (and there are many more tanks than giants). 
> Dragons facing missiles, bombers and jets? I give them 10 minutes. 
> Muggles are too many, and have too many weapons. The only solution 
is 
> to have them unaware, and if Voldemort doesn't realise this, he'll 
be 
> soon destroyed (he may be inmortal, but a granade will blast him to 
> pieces he likes it or not). 

I'm not really sure if there will be or can be an all out war between 
Muggles and Wizards.  But if there was to be such a thing, I fear 
that our Wizard companions have been **extremely** underestimated.

One word...Magic...period.  Our Wizards have magic powers.  You think 
guns outweigh wands?  While guns can do 1 thing, wands can do 
multiple upon multiple things.  Give me a wand, and I'll Expelliarmus 
your gun.  Shoot a missile at me and I can Summon it to slow down and 
go back to you.  Flamethrow me and I'll charm myself with that 
tickling charm that the witches used in the Witch Hunts.  Ride in 
with your tank and I'll fly in with my Ridgeback and sweep 3 of your 
steel steeds with my tail, and proceed to barbecue your army.  
Surround me with a platoon of your men and I'll Apparate somewhere 
else or freeze them still.  Planes and jets?  I'll turn them into 
paper airplanes.

The point is they would have a far better chance than earlier 
percieved.  Have our Marines been trained to deal with Order of 
Merlin Wizards??  We would be unprepared and so would the Wizarding 
World.  Numbers don't mean a thing when a powerful community such as 
our Wizards can be woken with a sudden wrath if they feel 
threatened.  If they need to defend themselves, they will do whatever 
is necessary.  But I don't believe anything like will ever happen.  I 
don't believe JKR will be able to write World War II tale.  I'm just 
shocked that some people believe that guns are still the only answer 
to the world's problems.

Earendil