Why didnt the harry potter people use guns?

[EASY PETE]

And wands at the same time, might have been easier

[me.thc.rs]

Originally posted by GARDEN YOUR GARDEN RIGHT NOW OR :

And wands at the same time, might have been easier

Because at the end of the day, that would be unoriginal, every other series and game has guns. It is nice to get a break and it feels more fantastical

[Someguyinhere]

Originally posted by me.thc.rs:

Originally posted by GARDEN YOUR GARDEN RIGHT NOW OR :

And wands at the same time, might have been easier

Because at the end of the day, that would be unoriginal, every other series and game has guns. It is nice to get a break and it feels more fantastical

Most high fantasy doesn't involve guns at all, actually. Those that do tend to make it weird steampunk stuff as well.

Nobody who has read any of the stuff I've been working on has reported the firearms and cannons making it feel like less a fantasy world, because great care was taken to integrate them into the setting and with careful regard to culture, peoples, regions, how they interact with magic and fantasy elements, and tactical usage. They're also all based on actual Medieval and a bit of 15th century firearms technology.

Guns and artillery were a thing alongside all your favorite Medieval trappings. They were used simultaneously alongside all the gleaming armor, bows and arrows, spears, swords, polearms, shields, and castles that permeate traditional high fantasy flavor. If you do it right, they don't clash at all.

[PocketYoda]

So Harry could have shot Voldemort but here are my reasons why that did not happen:

It defeats the whole purpose of being a wizard, which is to use magic. Wizards and witches are not like muggles, wands are their weapons not guns.

Bullets are not as powerful as spells, protego (shield charm) probably would be able to block such an attack whereas the killing curse cannot be blocked by any such spell. In the Order of The Phoenix Dumbledore used a shield charm that turned shards of glass that Voldemort aimed at him and Harry into sand. The same could be done with bullets. One could also just say 'accio gun' or disapparate and avoid the bullets (if they were fast enough)

Voldemort could be shot at but that would not prevent him from returning through one of his many horcruxes

Would wizards have known about such muggle inventions as guns? Perhaps, perhaps not. Colin Creevy was muggle born and brought a camera which was able to 'run off the magical atmosphere' at Hogwarts instead of its batteries. And not forgetting how Mr Weasley enchanted a Ford Anglia car so that it had extra room and an invisibility booster - so who's to say wizards could not somehow modify guns and other muggle inventions for their own advantage? That is a question I don't have the answer to Wizards are afraid of muggles finding out about them. They work hard to ensure that their way of life remains a secret to muggles. Using guns would be seen as dangerous to the concealment of the wizarding world

It is harder for a wizard to get a gun - though not impossible. You have to have a license in the UK to own one, I'm sure though that there are ways in which wizards could get one, such as the imperius curse which could be used to brainwash muggles into giving a wizard a gun

Wizards would also have to know how to use a gun, how to load, aim and fire one, for many I'm sure using a wand would have seemed simpler since muggle inventions can seem confusing to witches and wizards

Do you remember in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Vernon Dursley aimed a shotgun at Hagrid at the Hut on the Rock? How Vernon got the gun I do not know, but all Hagrid had to do was to bend it into a knot. I really don't think guns are any match for wizards.

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[Amazingly Randy]

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[PocketYoda]

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[Anvos]

I'd like to point out what Hagrid does to a shot gun is more that he's part giant than anything magical/wizard related.

Let alone there is no denying at the closer ranges the versatility of a wand can win out. The bigger problems for witches and wizards is muggle weapons can attack beyond your ability to use the wand precisely.

Then when we see Gridwald's fire stopping attempts at apparition its highly likely conventional explosions would stop apparition too, meaning wizards are kind of screwed against high grade explosives.

[WiredrawnMurder]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by WiredrawnMurder:

Plus the books are about children, the book wouldn't sell if they gave guns to children as overzealous parents would basically riot in the streets.

And yet, they have scenes with children being eaten alive by a cannibalistic werewolf, while he's still in his human form.

Other fun scenes include Harry using a spell he just read about a few minutes ago to practically bisect a fellow student.

And one of the students from the school being incinerated by his own Fiend Fire spell, because the idiot clearly didn't know how to control it properly, and was just flinging it around the room.

Just because it's meant for kids, doesn't mean the story never had any dark or gruesome scenes in it.

I meant the main characters are children, not that the book was intended for children.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by WiredrawnMurder:

I meant the main characters are children, not that the book was intended for children.

Ah, well Harry does end up using Crucio at least twice during the course of his story. The first attempt failed because his heart wasn't committed to the act of torturing somebody.

The second time he used it was considerably more effective...

So the main hero won't use guns to kill people, but he's able to happily subject them to mind rending agony as a form of punishment.

[EASY PETE]

Oh alrighty

[El Shabs]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by WiredrawnMurder:

I meant the main characters are children, not that the book was intended for children.

Ah, well Harry does end up using Crucio at least twice during the course of his story. The first attempt failed because his heart wasn't committed to the act of torturing somebody.

The second time he used it was considerably more effective...

So the main hero won't use guns to kill people, but he's able to happily subject them to mind rending agony as a form of punishment.

I definitely view the HP universe to be aimed at kids, the 7 books are childrens books, don't care what a bunch of nerds say, they're childrens books. Here's the thing, there's a huge difference between fantasy violence and realistic violence, lots of childrens books have horror/dark elements, I was a huge Harry Potter fan as a child, even books that I read when I was like 6-7 , like Roald Dahl's the Witches has horror elements. However most kids are smart enough to know that waving a stick and yelling Crucio in real life won't cause any harm, which lessens the impact of any fictional violence. Guns on the other hand , we see stories of shooting in real life all the time, and why you don't have stories aimed at children where people get popped in the head every 5 minutes

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by El Shabs:

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Ah, well Harry does end up using Crucio at least twice during the course of his story. The first attempt failed because his heart wasn't committed to the act of torturing somebody.

The second time he used it was considerably more effective...

So the main hero won't use guns to kill people, but he's able to happily subject them to mind rending agony as a form of punishment.

I definitely view the HP universe to be aimed at kids, the 7 books are childrens books, don't care what a bunch of nerds say, they're childrens books. Here's the thing, there's a huge difference between fantasy violence and realistic violence, lots of childrens books have horror/dark elements, I was a huge Harry Potter fan as a child, even books that I read when I was like 6-7 , like Roald Dahl's the Witches has horror elements. However most kids are smart enough to know that waving a stick and yelling Crucio in real life won't cause any harm, which lessens the impact of any fictional violence. Guns on the other hand , we see stories of shooting in real life all the time, and why you don't have stories aimed at children where people get popped in the head every 5 minutes

The books were designed to be read as children then to teens

[Legendary Mr. Tiddles]

I don't think we need to strain our mental muscle because as you know, it's magic and a wizard did it.

That and the killing curse can definitely be deflected with a shield charm. I know, because I was there.