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Harry Potter and the Military Industrial Complex

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[–] creditCrazy 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not much of a harry potter fan but wasn't that the whole point of being in hiding

[–] Snowclone 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They were being killed by muggles left and right, and this was way before the invention of guns, so, yeah, they weren't winning that war in any case.

[–] MataVatnik 3 points 4 months ago

That's a good point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Actually, at some point in the books they talk about this, and somebody comments how Muggles seldom would actually catch a real witch or wizard. And if they did, the witch or wizard would cast a spell to shield themselves from the fire and pretend to be in pain.