Hagrid

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115884


Annemehr wrote:
> Before OoP came out, I used to think, what good did Hagrid expect a
> crossbow to be against wizards with wands?  But we saw when Umbridge
> tried to have him arrested that Stunners just bounce off him.  So in
> Hagrid's hands, a crossbow might be an effective weapon against a
> wizard, as long as he didn't lose it to a disarming spell. <snip>


Carol responds:
Your answer raises another question for me. Apparently wizards can't
be killed in a car crash or from being splinched, and baby Harry
didn't die when a house fell on him, so they're more resistant than
Muggles to violent death. Could a wizard die if an arrow from Hagrid's
crossbow struck his heart? Nearly Headless Nick died from a botched
beheading, which makes me think that Walden Macnair's axe could
possibly be used to execute more than hippogriffs. Do we know of
anyone besides NHN who died in a Muggle sort of way, not from old age
but from a fatal injury from some sort of weapon?

The reason I'm asking is that maybe Alastor Moody (the auror, not the
imposter) killed the few DEs he couldn't subdue using something other
than the Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra) despite the fact that Barty Sr.
had okayed the use of Unforgiveable Curses by the aurors. (Young
wizards have been killed during past Triwizard Tournaments. Surely
they weren't AK'd by their opponents.) How, then, can witches and
wizards be killed other than by an AK?

Anybody have any ideas on this?

Carol