They shoot horses don't they (was Horse Feathers)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94326

Carol wrote:
> 
> > Harry fell fifty feet from a broom and only broke his arm, 
> 
> Geoff:
> He didn't even break his arm - you may be confusing that with COS 
> when he gets hit by a Bludger. But there were reasons....
> 
> "It was as though Harry's memory was on fast forward. The 
> lightning.... the Grim..... the Snitch.... and the Dementors....
> 'What happened?' he said, sitting up so suddenly they all gasped.
> 'You fell off,' said Fred. 'Must've been - what - fifty feet?'
> 'We thought you'd died,' said Alicia, who was shaking.'"
<snip> 


Carol:
Thanks for the correction, but my point was simply that a fifty-foot
fall that would kill a Muggle barely fazed Harry. In other words,
Wizards (and Witches) are tougher than Muggles, and I doubt that
they'd be killed by a bullet from those metal wands called guns that
Muggles use to kill each other. I'm not sure whether that's the reason
they seem oblivious to World War II and similar Muggle catastrophes,
as someone asked earlier in this thread, but I think it's safe to
state that there won't be many Muggles successfully defending
themselves with guns against Death Eaters, or many Wizards killing
each other with Muggle weapons in VW2. Again, if Lily and James could
not have been killed by a car crash, a Muggle weapon probably would
not have killed them (or any Witch or Wizard of comparable or greater
power). 

Carol