AtomBomb

[Steven]

No: HPFGUIDX 76204

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, The Entwife <maialaia at y...> 
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?

What I find so fascinating is the name you have chosen and how it is 
so ironic in conjunction with your post. The Entwives were healers of 
the land and planters of trees. They left the Ents to make the brown 
lands green again.

Here you are asking about the worst possible enemy of the land... an 
atom bomb. I find that totally ironic and fascinating.

However, let me attempt to answer your question. First any delivery 
attempt would be futile. Any muggle trying to deliver it by hand 
would be diverted as all muggles are. A missile with its guidance 
systems would not be able to lock on the target. A plane, because 
nothing like can work over Hogwarts and the pilot being muggle would 
also be diverted, could fly over it.

Now, if some lunatic wizard were to bring one into Hogwarts, it would 
not work because the electronic circuits needed to detonate the 
device would not work nor would the plastic exposives necessary to 
cause the chain reaction.

I hope that helps. By the way, are you upset that the second Lord of 
the Rings movie ignored the tale of the Ents and their wives? I 
myself am still upset that left out Tom Bombadil.