(03-15-2025, 05:26 PM)JHG Wrote: (03-12-2025, 05:38 PM)Kyng Wrote: (03-12-2025, 07:57 AM)JHG Wrote: Voldy certainly can’t counter this:
He'd have all kinds of ways of countering that
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Legilimency; Disarming spells; Shield Charms; Apparition; or even Avada Kedavra could do the trick
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Except the Wizarding World went underground due to too many witch-hunts and that was when Muggles just had flintlocks. This rifle was billed by Patton as the greatest battlefield implement ever.
Also, it makes a ping!
Well, even back then, I'm sure the Wizarding World could easily have beaten the flintlock-armed Muggles in a fight

. However, they would still have lost
some wizards in the process - and of course, they didn't want that.
They didn't go underground because they would've lost to the Muggles in a fight: they went underground because they didn't want to engage in fight after fight after fight, and they just wanted to be left alone.