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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 123379


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. 


SSSusan:
I never saw this as Hagrid expressing disbelief that a car crash 
could have killed James & Lily.  I always read his reaction as 
expressing his contempt that the Dursleys would have told Harry J&L 
died of such a *mundane* cause, rather than the truth of their being 
murdered, heroes, for a cause.

I was the one who joked about AK-47s and Uzis originally in 122897, 
to which Joan was responding.  Not that I feel I have canon to argue 
your point that it may be harder to kill a witch or wizard, but I 
think it unlikely that wizards *can't* die due to accident or 
firearms.  I think this particular scene with Hagrid could be taken 
differently than the two options you presented.

Siriusly Snapey Susan