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drunkasaurus ONLINE (01/18/2013) [-] 
I also don't get why no one ever uses a gun in Harry Potter.
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darklordtwentyone ONLINE (01/18/2013) [-] Something about magic fucking with physics and making technology go all screwy, is what my harry potter obsessed friend said when I asked him. Apparently it even works on mechanical technology like a flintlock pistol, so meh.
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drunkasaurus ONLINE (01/18/2013) [-] yet they have a clock tower the size of a mutant whale dildo and all sorts of other mechanical shit in hogwarts... Harry Potter doesn't hold up to scrutiny in some areas, tell your friend to deal with it and stop making shit up. it's still a great series.
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justtocomment (01/18/2013) [-]
They have an impossibly large clocktower whose mechanisms aren't ever truly explained.
And what other mechanical shit do they have? Everything remotely mechanical is fueled by magic. That's why Ron's dad is so obsessed with muggle technology -- it doesn't make sense to him, as a wizard, how something so basic as a rubber ducky works. In fact, Ron's father, whose job and passion was understanding muggle technology, considered it a great feat that he owned and was able to operate a car.
Muggles don't understand magic, and wizards don't understand the shit we've done to compensate for a lack of magic. In a world where you can cause explosion by flicking a stick around, would black powder have ever been invented?
And then it's a matter of "well, they could use a muggle-made gun. It's not like they don't already interact with muggles". In that case, you can immediately assume Voldemort and his ilk wouldn't dare use a muggle contraption, so that's easy enough. Then on the side of good, it's just because they're good guys. They banned the killing curse, so why on earth would they use a gun? Even if there were wizards with firearms training (Seeing as we're focused on Hogwarts and therefore England, there aren't going to be a lot of them), how many would actually have access to one? Who would think to pack a gun in their luggage next to their Wolfsbane and wand? And even if those circumstances did come to happen, who's to say that person would have the gun on them when it came down to it? I doubt the students would be allowed to carry a firearm around, muggle or Wizard.
And what other mechanical shit do they have? Everything remotely mechanical is fueled by magic. That's why Ron's dad is so obsessed with muggle technology -- it doesn't make sense to him, as a wizard, how something so basic as a rubber ducky works. In fact, Ron's father, whose job and passion was understanding muggle technology, considered it a great feat that he owned and was able to operate a car.
Muggles don't understand magic, and wizards don't understand the shit we've done to compensate for a lack of magic. In a world where you can cause explosion by flicking a stick around, would black powder have ever been invented?
And then it's a matter of "well, they could use a muggle-made gun. It's not like they don't already interact with muggles". In that case, you can immediately assume Voldemort and his ilk wouldn't dare use a muggle contraption, so that's easy enough. Then on the side of good, it's just because they're good guys. They banned the killing curse, so why on earth would they use a gun? Even if there were wizards with firearms training (Seeing as we're focused on Hogwarts and therefore England, there aren't going to be a lot of them), how many would actually have access to one? Who would think to pack a gun in their luggage next to their Wolfsbane and wand? And even if those circumstances did come to happen, who's to say that person would have the gun on them when it came down to it? I doubt the students would be allowed to carry a firearm around, muggle or Wizard.
