Luna's Mother's Death- Correction (Wizards and firearms )

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 123548



Gerry:
 
> About firearms and children's books. I don't know who posted that (and
>  I'm a bit too lazy to search back for it, sorry) I think that this is
> an American point of view. I don't know if the British firearm laws
> are more or less stict as ours, but no way are they as lax as in the
> USA, where you can actually buy guns and bullets at a supermarket
> (gasp, I did not believe this was true the first time I heard about
> it). What sane person would want such a dangerous thing as a gun in
> his house anyway? So for people of the ww to get hold of a gun, they
> would really have to know their way into the muggle world, especially
> the illegal parts of it. Somehow this strikes me as unlikely. 

Finwitch:

You know - what would a witch/wizard DO with a gun, considering the
many  uses of a wand? Using a wand is much more effective, you know -- 

A coldblooded murderer uses the killing curse. No trace in the body.
And then he can transfigure the body into a bone to hide it better. 
No Muggle will ever figure out what happened. And just to add in - use
Time Turner for a food Alibi.

For strictly defensive use: well, with stunners and disarming spells
and such - why use an item that could kill when you don't want it to?

AND, there IS one gun (a rifle) mentioned. Vernon bought one, and what
happens? Hagrid twists it so that the thing is useless... That's it,
guns are completely useless to wizards.

It simply isn't practical for any wizard to buy guns; wands are more
effective, more tidy, etc.

Finwitch