HP & The Power of Diplomacy

[Tempest Kitsune]

What Doc used in those shells was essentially solid-form napalm pellets with a sodium coating. When they were fired from the gun, and exposed to moisture in the air as they went, the sodium coating ignited, which in turn ignited the napalm pellets, which continued to burn after piercing the Dementors. All that was left by the time the clean-up crew got there was a smoldering pile of ash and bone with a rather disgusting aura around them. The body remnants were Banished by the clean-up crew. The Unspeakables weren't happy about that.

[gman391]

So the old truism "KILL IT WITH FIRE!" is at work here I take it?

[Tempest Kitsune]

More like "KILL IT WITH SCIENCE!". European wizards seem to be so dependent on their magic (and impeded by their egos) that they don't even consider doing things in a Mundane fashion. Which is why no one seems to carry knives, or know anything about unarmed combat. Why bother learning those "lower" forms of combat when you can always use magic? Wizards in the New World however, ended up having to innovate, integrate, and even degenerate a bit in order to get by in a land where they suddenly found they weren't the top dogs when it came to using magic power. It's amazing what you can get done after the idiots that thought they could solve everything with magic take a literal magic arrow through the forehead.

[spudman]

I know in Britain that at least the Prime Minister is aware of the magical world and there's a secret connection at that level between the governments. But how much connection is there in the U.S.?

[SLAMU]

A humble suggestion as to what to do with Madame Umbridge.

As for the US's involvement with magic, don't they have a Department of Magical Affairs or something like that? Or is that just fannon?

[Dechstreme]

Kill the *$%#^!

I heartily agree. And I don't really tend to use the word "heartily" in the first place.