And thus Hogwarts is lost. Muggles have gained nothing but Wizards have lost something near irreplacable.
^ We burned it, remember?
edited 28th Nov '10 9:35:19 PM by Scholastica
Are you... suggesting that normal adults can't navigate moving stairs? o__O
Or that Hogwarts turns into Malevolent Architecture?
Are there wizards in the Middle East?
@Scholastica: Depends on the ROE; it could be shoot if he's a threat or shoot anyone with a weapon.
Cyagan: One school down, 2 more to go.
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Or that Hogwarts turns into Malevolent Architecture? Yeah, I'm suggesting this.
And they've lost the Castle. But again... Send the kids out, send in the competent highly-trained Aurors via that same Floo Network.
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Aurors bleed right? I'm sure we could put some tripwires over our fireplaces.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:39:52 PM by Kino
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Muggles die, right? Just send in the Aurors before the soldiers get there.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:40:48 PM by CyganAngel
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I still doubt a bunch of 11 year olds are a big enough threat to have to issue a kill on sight order. In any event that didn't work in the Philippines and caused backlash in Vietnam, I fail to see why it would work in a war with wizards. Not to mention the children of muggles who are there.
If the wizards are desperate that could end up as a hostage situation.
"One school down, 2 more to go."
You mean two that we know the general location of.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:41:09 PM by Scholastica
Nothing they haven't dealt with before. You'd be amazed what a guy can do with some explosives and determination.
Last I heard from the author, gun beats wand.
Mellon: Wizards are everywhere I think.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:42:33 PM by Scholastica
@Scholastica: You saw X-men 2 didn't you? It's scary what we can do if we have people whip the gov up enough.
X-men 2 is fictional, isn't it? >__>
It's been said that attacking Hogwarts is tactically a waste of time, right?
They were captured. Stryker decieved the President to get what he wanted and it didn't work in the end if I recall.
@Scholastica: Stryker wanted to use them for testing; imagine if he just went in shooting.
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Guns beat wands, yes. But we also don't know the full extent of wizarding stelth capabilities.
Aurors might easily be able to ambush the lot of them.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:45:58 PM by CyganAngel
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I would like to see how he would get that past the President. And that still leaves the ones who got away. Who would be very angry.
Sneak up on a guy in the dark, maybe; sneak up on a squad with thermal scopes and a predator drone flying overhead? Highly unlikely.
@Scholastica: Wouldn't be the first time the CIA has gone off and done things their own way.
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A predator drone can't see into a castle >=(
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Didn't Word of God say that technology (for certain values of) tends to break down in the presence of magic?
That's why we have thermal imagery and ground penetrating radar.
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Electronics, not just tech.
So infrared scopes probably wouldn't even work.
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@melloncollie: Well the Predator would be in the sky; assuming modern high-tech commo doesn't work we could always sue WW 2 era radios. I recall the German's inventing the first NOD in the mid 40's.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:52:19 PM by Kino
"Aurors might easily be able to ambush the lot of them."
Suprise and first strike capabilities do go a long way, you are right. This may win a small engament and even a large scale battle but you can't expect to maintain that edge all the time. And if they outnumber you five to one and have weapons that can shoot a dozen times in the same time it takes you to say "Stupefy!" then the wizards will be routed.
" Wouldn't be the first time the CIA has gone off and done things their own way."
And doing things on their own doesn't always help in the long run. Or even in the short run.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:55:37 PM by Scholastica
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Well seeing as there's nothing beyond the level of a radio a tech in the Hrry Potter world...
Yeah, I'd say probably that, or even less tech.
Plus, we;ve effectively brought back the stealth option now.
And yeh.
But they're inside Hogwarts as of right now.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:53:58 PM by CyganAngel
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Except all the ones lost through the Forest. And, y'know, the ones that are likely to die once Hogwarts' stairs start moving around.
Also:
Burn the Library books to the ground, destroy the Poitions dungeons. Very little intelligence to mull on after that.
edited 28th Nov '10 9:33:34 PM by CyganAngel
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