Wizards and firearms (Was: Dumbledore's serious errors)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 123364


Joan wrote:
> I always wondered why no one ever thought of going after the DE's or
V with firearms.  If your body is destroyed to the point that you
bleed to death or your organs are destroyed, you can't live or repair
yourself no matter how magical you are.


Carol responds:
Do we know that for certain? Wizards can survive splinching--half
their body in one place and half in another. Hagrid expresses contempt
for the idea that powerful wizards like James and Lily Potter could
die in a car crash. Evidently either the crash couldn't kill them or
they could do something to prevent it. Wizards can survive in various
other conditions that would kill a Muggle--Alastor Moody's nine-month
ordeal in his own trunk, for example. So *would* a bullet kill a
wizard, or would the DEs merely laugh at the pitiful attempts of
Muggle "pleezemen" pointing pistols at them, knowing that if they're
hit they can just summon the bullet (Accio!) and then sew up the wound
with a Reparo? (Remember Molly's scorn for the crude Muggle practice
of using stitches?) Would Harry really have drowned when the gillyweed
wore off during the Second Task or would accidental magic kick in to
save him? What about Godric Gryffindor's sword, which has always
struck me as an odd weapon for a wizard? Or Walden Macnair's
executioner's axe? (I don't think Hagrid's crossbow was intended for
wizards, but I could be wrong.)

So, back to a question I asked ages ago. What besides AK (and being
blown to pieces like Benjy Fenwick) can kill a wizard?

Carol