AtomBomb

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 76199

<<< The Entwife wrote: Since places like Hogwarts and the Quidditch 
Cup Stadium are spelled to make muggles avoid them (and make muggle 
artifacts not work in them?) - if someone was say flying overhead and 
dropped an atom-bomb - would it go off?  Would it fall crooked? What?
>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Ooh, ooh! Something else I never thought would come up in the 
conversation!

It all depends on WHY muggle artifacts don't work, which possibly 
involves what exactly is defined as a 'muggle artifact'. Electricity, 
but why? Would batteries work? A steam-powered generator? Solar 
cells? TNT?

Then we have to consider the bomb itself: how it is delivered, how 
and where it is detonated, etc. Tiny little tactical nukes which are 
used the same way as conventional explosives and can be carried by a 
guy with a dufflebag sized thing strapped to his back, or big ol' 
strategic weapons which would take out a country or two and require 
great big aiplanes or space-based missiles? Dirty bombs detonated on 
the surface, or the lovely gold-and-white airbursts?

And then there's the expense: you gotta be motivated to pull together 
that kind of money; you're not going to happen to be casually 
cruising over a Scottish castle in your luxury private long-range 
bomber with a planeload of nuclear weapons which you suddenly take it 
into your head to unload, even if you can see it and identify it as 
your target.

All that being said, my opinion is that if a plane could fly directly 
overhead (and not veer off course or vanish a la Bermuda Triangle), 
it could drop a bomb; and if the protecting spells did not have the 
function of deflecting or repelling falling objects, the bomb would 
reach target and detonate.

--JDR