“You’re a Englishman Harry”
Missed opportunity for punchline.
The reason in books: muggles will oppress or kill them, falls flat in the face of their overwhelming power. And the fact that they’ve never had much is an issue.
Does it, tho? Wizards are powerful, sure, but they’re severely outnumbered, and almost completely ignorant of technology. What’s your Avada Kedavra, that moves slow enough that untrained school children can dodge it, gonna do against the Mother of all Bombs? Or a nuke?
Don’t underestimate muggles.
The issue is that wizards can instantly wage a guerilla war. All it takes is Muggle Studies being taken seriously and integration in muggle society. Then it’s impossible to identify them. Wandless magic could be a focus to be certain you’re never carrying an identifying marker.
Then the wizards don’t need to attack. They can destabilize the economy by duplicating money, precious resources, etc. These will deteriorate eventually but cause chaos and devalue the economy for a time. Imagine taking a $100 bill and just duplicating it to prop up your car-wash business as a front. But that’s baby-level chicanery.
The real sauce is the mind-control. Imperio (who cares if it’s unforgivable when you’re at war?) and more importantly the Memory Charm and False Memory spells. Let’s just get in there, stun a very important person (start low, work up) and insert the memories you need to get them to act accordingly. Remove the memories of that transaction and boom! Access to the most powerful people in the world and the ability to influence them. Now a wizard has their finger (remotely) on the nuclear button!
Seriously. Voldemort was an idiot. He used basic terror tactics for years and the only reason he wasn’t killed quickly was because Magical Britian was written to be as stupid as possible because Rowling was writing a children’s story about incompetent leaders.
This is now my favourite comment on Lemmy
Voldemort casts Fiend fire Its not effective.
Harry Truman casts Nuke 2x Its super effective!
“Also what’s the ethical structure behind literally enslaving a species of creatures and forcing them to cook our meals and keep our homes?”
“Well Harry you see, they’re lesser than us and also they like it that way”
“…”
(Harry Potter? Not a great book series, from a not-great philosophical mind.)
Credit to https://www.existentialcomics.com/
Check em out!
Never seen these before, thanks for sharing the link!
this but god instead of dumbledore
“If everyone knows magic, then it’s not special anymore, Harry! Don’t YOU want to be special?”
This rewriting of Harry Potter : HPMOR asks and solves these questions.
Hilarious. Wasn’t expecting that.
Blimey! Dumbledore certainly didn’t expect such a Spanish Inquisition!
I use br*tish as a slur
