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That's bad fanon talking. The purebloods can do that, given that they can tell vehicles apart.

You also have to understand that magic isn't safe if you don't know what you're doing. Wands are not only a tool, but they're also a safety measure as well. All those funny/cartoonish incidents they show in the books and movies? They're treatable in the 'modern-day' because wands give...

Given that spidersilk has the ability to -if replicated to our dimensions- tell pistol and -if I remember correctly- non-AP rifle bullets where to stuff it depending on thickness and the fact that the chitin of an insect -when sized to our dimensions- would tell pistols and rifles -if I remember...

Given that insect/arachnid exoskeletons are -for their size- some of the strongest biological things in nature (spider silk is also incredibly strong, but since we're so large we break them easily)? Most probably. You'll probably have to start going into HMG (so 12.7mm or bigger) with AP rounds...

Given that the really good dark dunderheads can turn their names into locator beacons (implied to be the reason that Voldy's lackies kept showing up in the 7th book, Harry and friends always say Voldy's moniker) among other things, they are at times. It also doesn't help that going any further...

Because they're magical. Those spiders (whose patriarch/leader is Hagrid's old pet) tend to be small dogs at least in size? Magical. Centaurs? Magical. Not a normal/muggle animal among them.

That sort of population-level is likely why the Ministry of Magic either goes quickly to either cover up or make snap arrests. They don't want more dark dunderheads going on murder sprees causing even more problems for everyone else (decreasing tax revenue, fewer people to man the various...

Yeah, because their population is only in the millions at best. Sure muggleborns shore up the population but the dark dunerheads going on murder sprees ain't doing the magical world favors.

It isn't exact but if I have to give people an idea of what the equivalent is, then what happened to the Wizarding World is WW2 was followed up by a Vietnam War that kicked off WW3. At least, that is the implication.

We also have to understand that when we go through the wizarding world in the time of Harry's tenure at Hogwarts, the wizarding world is still reeling from Voldy's mass-murdering spree... which was only decades from Grinderwald's war. That is also something that people forget.

Wow, just wow... people are forgetting that Harry Potter-verse has (basically) no rules and runs on a pure 'magic must defeat magic' mentality when it comes to its magic system. That is why muggles being involved with Potter-verse tends to be either a) Potter-verse is hit with the nerf bat so...

That is after Christianity got its hands on them and basically scrubbed them. While some of the limits were already there ('cold iron' being one of them), fae in the original incarnations of the stories tended to have very little in terms of rules. At least, that is what I can scrounge up...

Hence why I keep saying that Potter magic runs on Fae logic...

Harry Potter magic runs on Fae logic, which there isn't much in terms of limits and give no fucks for mortals.

Then you haven't looked into fae logic then. I have and it always ends badly for the mortal involved. Although they -as a narrative system- went out thanks to Christianity, they experienced a resurgence when JK Rowling 'reintroduced' it to the wider world. Fae logic is as I described: few...

First, it takes some time for a shield spell to be cast by the mookiest of magical mooks -not 'barely perform basic shield spells' as you put it (at least, to my recollection)- outside of a class setting, thus why the shield-enchanted clothing was so popular. Given that the Death Eaters have a...

It has been ages since I've read the books but... yeah, muggles in the Harry Potter setting are completely incapable of fighting back if the magicals decide to fight. It goes into the Jackie Chan Adventures of 'Magic can only defeat Magic!' thought process.