How would you kill Voldemort?

[buzzard]

Ok, given the context of the series, but with some extrapolation of UK government resources, how would you try to take him down?

Voldemort is obviously a threat to not only the wizarding world, but the Muggle world as well. Also given that the Minister of Magic appears to report to the PM, it would not be past the realms of plausibility to try a joint effort to eliminate him.

I could see a number of ways in which Muggle technology could facilitate such a task. Given the ignorance, or outright disdain that Voldemort and the Death Eaters show for Muggle technology and methods, this should enable a large blind spot to be exploited.

Say you make a joint SAS/Auror team and you give them sniper and precision guided bomb support. The Aurors would be tasked with pegging his location, and then you simply eliminate him with technology he doesn't understand, nor have a magical counter for. There is not likely a counterspell for a 500lbs PGM which drops on your house when you don't expect it. Nor is there likely to be a counterspell for a sniper shot to the head which hits you before the noise of the blast. You do any close in scouting using Muggle sneakiness since invisibility cloaks would likely be a beacon to Voldy and crew.

I am quite certain Rowling won't go this way, but I'd say it would make for a pretty tidy ending.

buzzard

 

[kingpaul]

The big hole is, if you put stock in the prophecy, that Harry has to be the one to take out Voldemort. So, you train him in sniping.

 

[Frostmarrow]

He'll just reform fifteen minutes later - and now he's got a hole in his head!!!

 

[Klaus]

Nuke him from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.







What?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Heh, this just made me think of Herminone snapping after Malfoy calls her a mudblood again and she pulls out a muggle gun and shoots him several times.

As for Voldemort dying, my prediction is that it Harry & company will destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Then in the climactic battle, Harry will be killed by Voldemort when he sacrifices himself to save one of his companions, then in a repeating of history, Voldemort casts the Avada Kedavra curse on that person, and Harry's sacrifice causes the curse to rebound, destroying Voldemort (the ultimate irony would be if that person was Snape).

 

[Someone]

The 500 lb bomb on top of his noseless head idea is good. I also tend to think that by the time he says AVADA KED... he'd be full of holes by a competent SAS.

 

[mmu1]

There's no reason presented in any of the books why someone couldn't just shoot him dead with a Barret .50 from a safe distance of a mile.

In fact, that's one of the things I don't like about the books - we are told by Rowlings how the magic in her books is extremely dangerous, powerful, a grave threat to muggles, something the non-magical world would never handle... but the vast majority of it is actually parlor tricks - if I were in trouble, I'd take a loaded gun, a flashlight and a cell phone over being a wizard.

Hardly impressive, to someone who's any kind of a serious fantasy reader, because she's just not very imaginative, when all's said and done.

Which isn't to say I don't like the books, but Rowlings needs to get out more...

 

[buzzard]

There's no reason presented in any of the books why someone couldn't just shoot him dead with a Barret .50 from a safe distance of a mile.

In fact, that's one of the things I don't like about the books - we are told by Rowlings how the magic in her books is extremely dangerous, powerful, a grave threat to muggles, something the non-magical world would never handle... but the vast majority of it is actually parlor tricks - if I were in trouble, I'd take a loaded gun, a flashlight and a cell phone over being a wizard.

Hardly impressive, to someone who's any kind of a serious fantasy reader, because she's just not very imaginative, when all's said and done.

Which isn't to say I don't like the books, but Rowlings needs to get out more...

Yes, exactly, I agree completely. I'm currently reading Prisoner of Azkaban, and there's a huge hoopla about Sirius Black killing off 13 people with one curse. BFD. I mean modern weapons make that look like playground taunts. Try a MOAB if you want destruction. Heck offing 13 at a time is a hand grenade. While I do like the yarns Rowling spins, she seems to be a wee bit to taken with her wizarding world to the exclusion of the real world around her. Much of the magic presented accomplishes appreciably less than technology, especially when it comes to offensive potential.

buzzard

 

[jonathan swift]

Tactical nuclear device is the only way to go.

 

[WhatGravitas]

In fact, that's one of the things I don't like about the books - we are told by Rowlings how the magic in her books is extremely dangerous, powerful, a grave threat to muggles, something the non-magical world would never handle... but the vast majority of it is actually parlor tricks.

The problem is also: Half of all magic seem to interact with... magic. DADA, occlumency and so on... all of that loses a mighty bit of power against muggles. Too much magic seems to be only really useful, if you're living in a magical world. The rest is more like convenience - see the various things, like flying cars, teleporting stuff and so on.

For Voldy: Yeah, nothing that a nuke cannot solve. Even if he reforms... this has to hurt. Additionally, dipping him liquid nitrogen? Everything, that can preserve cells, will preserve him as well. Forever.