BANG! You're dead!

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 76873

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> <<big snip<<
> When did Harry *ever* get a wand spell to work properly the first 
> time he tried it?) 
> <<snip<<

> This post just made me think, "can't wizards use ordinary weapons 
> like guns etc.? Is their only way of fighting using wands and 
spells?"
> 
(snip)
> I can just picture Harry facing Voldemort the same way. Voldemort 
> waving his wand - ready to strike - Harry wandless on the 
ground.... 
> when suddenly he remembers the gun in his pocket and BANG! You're 
> dead! 
> Heh heh heh...... if that wouldn't cause Voldemort's jaw to drop  - 
> nothing would :)
> 
> Inge

>From CW:

Inge, for further hilarious results of faery meeting high tech read 
the Artemis Fowl series - small, highly devious Irish boy plus laptop 
& assorted weaponry takes on the whole magical world in an effort to 
pull off the heist of the century; I fear that Gringotts wouldn't 
last two seconds ! 

Seriously (?possibly the wrong word in this context), I have always 
thought that JKR has evaded the computer and Internet issue. It is 
stated several times that Dud has a computer, and Harry must be aware 
of the Internet - the books are set in the mid to late 90s after all, 
and he has spent at least five years at a Muggle school. I refuse to 
believe that he and Hermione don't know about computers and the 
communication possibilities they offer. 

As part of the attraction of the series is its apparent parallel 
existence with our world -it could all be real if only we Muggles 
looked a little more carefully around us- I am a bit surprised that 
Harry doesn't bring some Muggle solutions to bear on his WW dilemmas. 
Arthur Weasley would be so fascinated apart from anything else !

Although wizards seem to have the ability to make Muggle mechanical 
devices not work (ref the long and funny Atom Bomb posts recently !), 
I still think Harry could sneakily use the Internet from time to time 
when at Privet Drive. I can't imagine either Voldie or DD 
understanding what it does, so both could underestimate it as a 
secret weapon.....Philip Pullman has a good bit in his Dark Materials 
trilogy where the protagonists use computers to track themselves, (or 
the 'dust' they are covered in)in other universes. Come on JKR..