![]() ![]() The one point I’m aware of that Rowling definitely did say (though even then only by implication) is that wizards will always beat muggles in secrecy. TL DR: The muggles would win, unless the wizards maintain the element of surprise, but most individual wizards who want to escape the muggles will be able to.įirst off, we should consider whether the author has anything to say about this debate, but in fact J. Also, when I did that, I was quickly alerted to the fact that I should also be checking r/whowouldwin, so I read through those debates, too.Īnd the answer, it turns out, is that it’s complicated. I looked at the top hits for this debate on r/harrypotter and r/HPfanfiction, but I found r/HPfanfiction to be generally better for substantive debate. wizards” threads that have been made over the years, I could get a pretty comprehensive view of the arguments that are being made and what factors people are considering. I thought that if I looked at some of the “muggles vs. ![]() To do this, I turned to Reddit, where weird scenarios like this get debated frequently. Rather than trying to solve the whole problem from the beginning, let’s go through the different advantages and disadvantages each side has to try to building up a winning strategy they could use. However, I never forgot about it, and over the past year, I’ve thought of a different way to go about it. I thought about it for a while at the time, but I eventually dropped it because I thought it was too complicated, and the more I thought about it, the less sure I was of the answer. I teased this essay all the way back in 2018 when I reviewed The Crimes of Grindelwald. With the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore this week, I though I would answer the age-old question in the Harry Potter universe: who would win in a fight between the wizards and the muggles? Seeing a major war occurring in Europe has changed our perspective collectively on some of these things, but it doesn’t really change my conclusions in this essay. Note: I wrote the vast majority of this essay before the current war in Ukraine. ![]()
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