Why does nobody fight Lord Voldemort?

[M0rp43vs]

I understand using guns and bombs on the evil, immortal, immoral noseless wizard will probably end in tears but what about on his followers?
Wait till they get one of their get-togethers, set off some Michael bay level boomies, Add some snipers to pick off the rest and capture some to find rest of the deatheater group on penalty of pain or something(they did seem to know one another to invite-each-other-to-tea level)
Won't do much to old Moldybutt *Crack* but will at least reduce his numbers somewhat
(hopefully coherent, I am rather unwell and bored. A bad mix)

 

[WaruTaru]

Half the problem is tracking him down. How do you find him in the first place? He has teleports and you won't know where and when he's going appear and disappear. He rarely does his own dirty work and doesn't give scheduled public appearances either. Heck, he took down the ministry without being seen. How many years did it took to actually find Osama when he can't even teleport around like voldie? Not to mention normal people won't even be able to see his hideout with all those magical crap he places around his headquarters. The three protagonist eluded capture from magical people for quite some time, and they don't even have voldie-level magic. They didn't even finish their magical education. The only reason they got caught was because they muttered the magical swear word. Nuking and/or sniping at voldie requires them to actually find him first, which proved impossible for normal folks.

The other half of the problem is having enough power to actually fight his army. When he regained his full powers, dementors were roaming around Britain. Just having dementors alone would have sucked out your will to fight, and the normal people won't even know its there. Any army you sent against him would be too busy being depressed to do anything useful. Lets not forget the death eaters, giants and werewolves that joined him.

Oh, don't forget how easily the magical ministry placed a wizard in the PM's office. If voldie felt like it, he could have controlled the muggle PM and have him work against the good guys. After all, if he could gain control of the magical ministry, the normal ministry would stand no chance against his infiltration.

The Horcruxes are just icing on cake.

Then again, why didn't the ministry just use Time Turners to go back in time and slaughter child voldie before he went to Hogwarts (or better yet, after he was born)? They have a cabinet full of those things before they got smashed to bits in Phoenix. They could have done that in the first book and be done with it.

 

[Googooguru]

Im guessing no one attacks him cause then they would break the plot device

 

[Little Duck]

Because wizards aren't the smartest of people. Let me just say he's lucky he started his shit in Britain and not North America. No offense to the Brirs, but us North Americans would have done it right the first time. Lol

If he started in North America fox news would have reported on it and everyone would have fled the country by lunch.

 

[quantumsoul]

What I didn't find believable was Voldemorts plan to conquer the muggles. Thing about us muggles is we got guns and tactical missile strikes. So I think that war would have been over quick.

Conversely I think a gun toting bullet wizard would be really cool. He or she could have wands built into a pair of pistols and do crazy bullet magic.

 

[Emergent System]

Um, other than him being immortal until all the Horcruxes were destroyed?

And also that fact that he could slaughter anyone in 10 seconds flat?

Well, yes. There's that. Avada Kadabra WAS pretty nasty to everyone not The Boy Who Lived.

I don't think I could keep an entire society cowed with the power of what is essentially on the same level as a pistol. Outside of fiction for children, anyway.

The REALLY scary powers are the things like freaking MIND CONTROL. That stuff could likely let me cow an entire society. But nobody seems to care when wizards routinely MIND-RAPE other wizards and non-wizards alike. Compared to the pathetic ability to kill someone, the ability to control someone's mind and alter their memories is a billion times more terrifying. Never mind the ability to TIME TRAVEL, or- ah forget it.

 

[Woodsey]

Because wizards aren't the smartest of people. Let me just say he's lucky he started his shit in Britain and not North America. No offense to the Brirs, but us North Americans would have done it right the first time. Lol

He's probably resistant to nukes and "Fuck yeah!" chanting.

OT: Because he's the baddest man in the whole damn town.

 

[teisjm]

Because wizards aren't the smartest of people. Let me just say he's lucky he started his shit in Britain and not North America. No offense to the Brirs, but us North Americans would have done it right the first time. Lol

Without beeing american, i'll give that to the americans.
USA was probably the country in the world i would be most worried about if i was send to invade it.
Maybe he would accept the muggle tech he needed, and put a scope on his wand for aveda kedavra sniping action?

Always wondered why no-one in the books thought about using guns in their struggle.
Just find the pålace where he respawns after getting killed due to horcruxes, and spawn-camp his sorry ass with a sniper team, untill he rage-quits.

 

[Joel Dawson]

I always wondered why nobody carried a gun. Seriously, you can block magic pretty conviently. You know what you can't block? A peice of sharpened lead flying at you at mach 4.

Wizards tend to be pretty arrogant about themselves. Most see all the muggle technology as inferior.

OT: Because most people feared this man who could and would kill you in seconds flat and commanded an army of people, giants, and dementors who would do the same. Also, I believe I heard some of Harry Potter is supposed to be an allegory for World War III. If so, then I would say this is supposed to stand for the appeasement policy towards Hitler's rise to power.

 

[MrJKapowey]

Seriously, even if he can block bullets, why not just hide someone in one of Hogwarts' towers with a Cheytac M200 - when he does that speech thing shoot him in the head. His brains will be everywhere befroe anyone hears the noise...

 

[Thaluikhain]

Just find the pålace where he respawns after getting killed due to horcruxes, and spawn-camp his sorry ass with a sniper team, untill he rage-quits.

Ok, this is the best idea for killing Voldemort.

Also, sadly, one of the most sensible.

 

[Baneat]

Guns are referred to twice. Vernon points one at Hagrid in The Philosopher's Stone, and Hagrid twists the barrel in response. Also, it's referred to as a "Crude metal wand which muggles use to kill each other".

Wizards automatically react to regular danger so it's likely that you couldn't shoot one successfully.

As for fighting him head-on the only people with the balls to do it are smart enough to know they can't kill him either because of the horcruxes or because he's too skilled a caster.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

Because wizards aren't the smartest of people. Let me just say he's lucky he started his shit in Britain and not North America. No offense to the Brirs, but us North Americans would have done it right the first time. Lol

Brirs...aw so cute. Anyhoo nobody fights back because JK's brain runs on fairy dust and not logic. That and he surrounds himself with people who fear him and only kills weak people. He's frightened of an old guy for fecks sake I don't care how 'powerful' Dumbledore is he'd be too busy fantasizing about Harry ramming Ron up the arse to notice Voldemort creeping up behind him to...yell Avada Kedavra. Also the douche is defeated by a baby at the height of his power (in a contrived and idiotic way that JK pulled out her arse like Dumbledore's anal beads) and then he was defeated again by the same guy only now he's a slack jawed idiot who defeats him by luck...so just like the first time really.

Yeah this shite would never happen anywhere to be honest. At least not without Voldemort giving speeches to idiots who follow him blindly, you can't rule with fear alone because people will rise up before you can do anything as significant as take over the motherfucking government!

 

[Scrumpys]

I know everyones saving the killing curse wouldn't work on him, but didn't they say it was unblockable in one the books? I mean when it rebounded off harry it didnt' kill him permanently, but it did get him out of the way for like 14 years.

 

[Gwarr]

If this guy

Spoiler: click

challenges you to a duel , do you fight or run?

 

[CGAdam]

People like Harry's father did fight, and Voldemort killed them for it. Thing is, anyone brave enough to stand up to Voldemort WOULD fight, but they couldn't win. Everyone else was too afraid of him to fight.

 

[Farson89]

Also the president of the Uk knew the existence of Voldie.

That's curious considering the fact that the UK has never had a president.

 

[Ephyon]

What SENSIBLE wizards should have done >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYWT5Q_R_w

OT: C'mon, you're telling me that the wizards are too proud to ask the Prime Minister for help? Heck, the least they could've done was hire maybe Blackwater (now known as Xe Services). The Ministry of Magic is screwing up at their job of keeping their part of the world away from the Muggle world by letting some punkass noseless wizard loose upon them.

Seriously, I'm pretty sure Muggle military would be a nasty surprise for them since you know, they look down upon Muggles like insects.

I would like to see Voldemort block a tank shell and try to Avada Kedavra through tank armor.

 

[Kuroneko97]

Fair enough, although given that the wizarding world obviously has some contact with the outside world, the fact that they lack real world objects that are superior to their stuff is beyond me. Why send an owl instead of text?

My reasoning for that is because the Harry Potter universe was meant to be kind of a medieval world. Sure, it may be a modern time, but perhaps wizards have just kept a rather sheltered life from muggles. It may be that wizards prefer their magic over technology, or they think it is above technology in some narcissistic way. Or it could be possible that most of the younger witches and wizards do actually know about technology, or at least a little more than adults.

Besides, owls are epic. I'd use an owl over texting any day. One of my friends writing at their desk and suddenly an owl with a letter starts tapping at their window and they're like "WTF?"

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Sniper round to the noseless noggin, and down he goes, just in time for tea.