Everyone knows that wizards in the wizarding world of Harry Potter have powerful magical means, but will they be challenged by Muggles?
Almost all Harry Potter fans may have fantasized about receiving letters from Hogwarts School one day, because the opportunity to become a magician is so rare that it must not be missed. However, be aware that while wizards may seem more powerful than Muggles, you may find that a person who does not know magic can still defeat their magic opponents.
In theory, in a war or conflict between a wizard and a Muggle, both sides actually have their own advantages and strengths, and naturally have a chance to win. It contains the skills, knowledge and attitudes possessed by the two camps, and how they can use those advantages to fight each other.
Wizard's advantage
Move fast
Wizards can move quickly and easily by means of this means to easily sneak out and kill unsuspecting Muggles.
This scene is seen at the beginning of Harry Potter film 6, where the Death Eaters rush up a bridge and destroy it, then flee within minutes.
With the blessing of other items such as door keys, broomsticks, and flying nets, it is even more powerful, and adult wizards can appear to different locations in a matter of seconds, and if there is a conflict between wizards and Muggles, wizards will definitely have the advantage of moving faster than Muggles.
Summon resources
Fans have long questioned the rules of magic in the Harry Potter series because there are a lot of ambiguities on the issue. However, the official interpretation is that Gamp's Law states that, with a few exceptions, wizards cannot conjure up new materials, but can multiply the amount of materials they already have.
This has been seen in practice, with the amount of food doubling and sometimes even tripling, which allows wizards not to run out of food. Wizards can also expand the space they live in, which means they can guarantee enough safe places.
Mind control
The heroes of Harry Potter were also once as dark as villains, such as when they used the Unforgivable Spell, and in a potential war with Muggles, wizards gave them a huge advantage with the mind control that the Soul Reaper Charm brought.
The Muggles did not know that their companions were under the control of wizards, nor how to pull those trapped by the Soul Reapers back to reality. Wizards can control important authority figures through their minds, thus disintegrating Muggles from within.
Dominate magical creatures
Wizards have no hope of winning if they only talk about weapons, which is not what wizards are good at, but they have magical creatures with destructive potential. They possess beasts such as dragons, Sphinxes, elves, and many other things that can attack Muggles.
Magical animals such as the Eagle-headed Winged Beast and the Night Horse, when summoned to the battlefield, in addition to posing an immediate threat to Muggles, give wizards additional flying mount options. These creatures form deadly combinations under their control, as well as in the powerful magical powers of the wizards.
Change the nature of things
Transfiguration is essentially an act that violates the laws of physics, and wizards will turn an object, or even the essence of a person, into something else. Powerful wizards like Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore could already turn inanimate objects into weapons or creatures under their control, theoretically building a small army.
In addition, wizards can easily turn Muggles into animals without letting them change back to their original form, and they can also turn Muggles' resources into other things, such as turning food into inedible things, so that Muggles have problems with making a living.
Muggle advantages
Numerical advantage
Even the most powerful Muggle-born wizards are a minority exception in their families, while pure-blood magical families are rare. It greatly favored the ratio of wizards and Muggles in numbers to the latter, and Muggles could overwhelm wizards in numbers.
According to the novel, this is exactly what has happened in the past, and in the Middle Ages, Muggles often grabbed wizards and burned them on a burning pillar. In modern times, if conflict brews, Muggles will have a great numerical advantage, which may make the whole confrontation situation favorable to Muggles.
Fast communication
Fast movement is a big advantage for wizards, but their communication channels are a joke compared to Muggles, and wizards usually rely on birds to pass on their messages, which means that it takes days for normal communication to get out of place, while Muggles can communicate widely in a timely and wide manner without any unexpected problems.
Muggles also had the internet, text messages, and television to deliver their news and messages, all of which wizards didn't get, at least for now. If Muggles want to deal only with wizards, they will first have a greater advantage in quick communication and even organizational efficiency, and even change the pattern of confrontation.
Knowledge and strategy
It is clear that wizards generally have an isolationist mentality, and even if they come from the same country, it is difficult for them to coexist with each other.
The Ministry of Magic, though a magical organization, did not know how to repel the threat of Voldemort, and the Muggles had no such problems.
Ministry of Magic
Muggles have specialized intelligence agencies that specialize in investigating important matters in the event of conflict and use their knowledge of wizards to deal with them with targeted knowledge. Because Muggles are organized so rigorously and efficiently, they have a variety of strategies to share, things like the invisibility cloak can quickly be rendered useless by thermal cameras, and Muggles can also target wizards' quarters with systematic attacks and ultimately win the conflict.
Spy technology
It should be easy for Muggles to spy on wizards, because magicians may not know anything about things like cameras and spy devices. Muggles could carefully monitor entire wizarding colonies with drones, while spies dressed in wizarding robes could easily eavesdrop on their conversations. And the muggles who sneak in only need to blend in and install spy devices in the wizarding colony, which should not be difficult.
Muggle weapons
Although wizards can cast spells without a wand, most magic becomes useless without a wand. Since wizards attack in a single way, Muggles will soon understand this and can destroy wizards' main attacks in a targeted manner. At the same time, there were so many kinds of Muggle weapons that it was difficult for wizards to become familiar with so many Muggle weapons at once, and it was almost impossible for them to even know each other.
Wizards call guns "Muggle wands," and purebred wizards like Ron can't understand this. There are other weapons, such as jets, tanks, devastating cannons, etc., and muggle firepower is so powerful that they don't even have to face wizards to hurt them.