Muggle vs Wizard - Any Chance?

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33472

  Greetings!

  I want to start a discussion about wizard's strengths and
weaknesses.

  While reading HP books, a thought doesn't leave my head -
just how vulnerable a wizard is to a trained muggle? I mean
with all that spellpower, ability to fly, levitate things,
kill creatures with a few words spells can be easily
_dodged_.

  There are countless examples of pupils dodging the spells.
Neville on the 4th year is missing his pillow with his
banishing charm. Harry dodges his own spell that rebounds
from Skrewt's armour. Harry dodges _lots_ of spells while
running from Death Eaters in GoF...

  I come to the conclusion that in magic, aim and dodge are
at least as important as magic power is, and probably even
more. What use will you have of Avada Kedavra if your
opponent is too fast for you to hit?

  And then a question of muggle vs. wizard arises. If we
have a trained muggle who is not panicked by wizard's
presence and knows about wizard's powers, I would say the
muggle has good chances to survive, if not to win (all
wizard's protection against physical damage cannot help when
he's got a knife inserted into his chest).

  Just what speed a spell has? How fast does it travel?
Thrown knife? Crossbow bolt? Rifle bullet? The last is
highly unlikely - Avada Kedavra is much slower, because
pupils at DADA lesson notice not a green flash of light, but
something green moving fast in the direction of the spider.

  All this means that wizards at Hogwarts _should_ have some
kind of physical training (to increase accuracy, agility and
reaction), and this training will be similar to that of
modern policeman training.

  Another question is the usefullness of physical protection
against magic. Spells tend to rebound from thick armour of
some beasts (Skrewt), yet they are not rebounded from
dragon's scales (instead, spells dissipate, reduce their
power, but not rebound). Spells rebound from walls - but
destroy the marble angel at the graveyard (GoF34). There is
probably some system (this is a big assumption, I know,
but...). And this in turn means that it is theoretically
possible to devise some kind of physical protection, if only
from the weaker spells (like Stunners).

  Everything above is only my IMHO, of course.

  Any comments? Ideas? Flammables? Waiting for them with my
new Skrewt-hide shield... ;)

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
always loving to throw weird ideas into community...

P.S. To keep house-elves informed: this is my 6th post here.