BANG! You're dead! (forget the internet)

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No: HPFGUIDX 76903

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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?"

They should learn.  Imagine it like that indiana jones movie.  Harry 
pulls his wand... BANG!  He's dead.  One shot to the head.  Bye bye 
Harry.  Great scene...  Bad for plot.

I say they just give Draco a portkey.  Get Draco to slip it somehow 
into Harry's stuff or get Harry to take it.  And then have it set 
into space.  Bang! No more Harry.

> > > 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. 

>Come on JKR..

Well how about that very new-fangled invention called a TELEPHONE! 
Really cutting edge I know but.... I will never understand why 
Hermione didn't just look Harry up if she was so worried about him 
after first year.  If he wasn't writing back, why not call?  
Obviously Ron's parents were worried and seemed to believe he wasn't 
being treated well.  

Why does Ron make the call?  Sure it is funny but, why wouldn't he 
just write to Hermione... And why doesn't Hermione ever call later 
and just not say anything about Hogwarts.  She could say she lives 
down the street.  She's a smart girl... (or so we are lead to 
believe).

Herm, 

You're down with all that muggle stuff, right?  Dad says they talk 
through this thing called a fellytone.  He has one in the garage.  It 
is made out of some weird material, I've never seen before.  But I'm 
not sure I can work it.  You every heard of it?  Can you get your 
hands on one? I'm worried about Harry.  Perhaps you could call him 
and ask what is up?  I'm sure he wouldn't just not write back, would 
he?  Mum and dad seem worried about him too.

Write back with any suggestions,
Ron


Golly