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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3557904" data-attributes="member: 319">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...</blockquote>