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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that any witch or wizard of any training could mow down scores of muggles. This is prior to the invention of guns, but any gun pre-civil war era wouldn't be an issue either.

I think there are more advanced spells/enchantments that can protect against modern firearms.

So really it's about keeping power to themselves, and always has been.

[–] Earthwormjim91 8 points 1 year ago

Sure but the vast majority of witches and wizards aren’t violent by nature, just like most people. They don’t want to rule or anything they just want to go about their lives in their own way with as little drama as possible.

And they’re not like a completely separate species of people either, because you can have magical ability come up spontaneously in muggle families, like Harry’s mother. So a very large amount of of witches and wizards have muggles in their families and don’t want to have a war between wizards and muggles.