How will Battle commence?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 38266

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> 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.

But that's not *true*. Peter Pettigrew managed to kill 12 Muggles 
with a *single* AK or that's how I read the descriptions of it - 
might have killed *more* but there weren't any more of them! AND, 
they also have Imperius: command a Muggle to start shooting at other 
Muggles; confusion spells that prevent Muggles from *seeing* wizards, 
Apparation - so they can Apparate directly into the best strategic 
places, Time turners, so the wizards *can* be in two places at the 
same time, medicine that heals wounds quickly...

> 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). Only dementors would be dangerous, but, 
in 
> a war, they would quickly run out of food. Then again, maybe not, 
but 
> if muggles have survived to this day with them around, they can 
> continue to do so.

They'd be eating Muggle souls, making everyone miserable. Do Muggle 
soldiers usually take chocolate with them?
 
> That would be an interesting end for the books: a major amphibian 
> operation against Azkaban with all the good characters in the book. 
A 
> pity is just too film-ish.

Perhaps... Or a duel with Voldemort, this time the connection NOT 
breaking before it's finished, and we'd get to know all about Lily, 
and James from their own mouths...

But for now... Order of the Phoenix. Could the title refer to an 
Court-process during which Sirius gets free, thus re-born like a 
Phoenix?

-- Finwitch