One reasonably powerful wizard defector to the Muggle side could enlist other wizards via subterfuge or magical control, and such wizards could create magical items to aid the Muggles. If the Muggles were sure that they could trust such a defector, they could hand em a nuke and have em wipe Hogsmeade off the map in spite of all its anti-Muggle protections.
There are plenty of Muggle-borns, half-bloods, wizards married to Muggles, and wizards merely fond of Muggles a la Arthur Weasley, that in an all-out war, there would be considerable numbers of potential defectors.
By contrast, a Muggle defector to the wizarding side would be harder to come by per capita, and also less useful, as Muggles don’t have special abilities that let them be particularly useful to wizards.
Muggles don’t have special abilities that let them be particularly useful to wizards.
Um, I rather thought the whole point of MoR was to falsify this claim. Unless you’re claiming rationality is not “special” because anyone can in principle have it.
Rationality isn’t particularly common among Muggles. Like, at all. I was thinking more about the physical tools, anyway—there’s nothing stopping a wizard from using Muggle tech as long as they don’t have lots of magic going on nearby (or I would have expected some Muggle-born child to complain offhand about how they can never make the TV work over summer holidays and their parents are annoyed about all the brownouts). Whereas Muggles cannot use wizarding tools one bit—or even see wizarding locations.
One reasonably powerful wizard defector to the Muggle side could enlist other wizards via subterfuge or magical control, and such wizards could create magical items to aid the Muggles. If the Muggles were sure that they could trust such a defector, they could hand em a nuke and have em wipe Hogsmeade off the map in spite of all its anti-Muggle protections.
There are plenty of Muggle-borns, half-bloods, wizards married to Muggles, and wizards merely fond of Muggles a la Arthur Weasley, that in an all-out war, there would be considerable numbers of potential defectors.
By contrast, a Muggle defector to the wizarding side would be harder to come by per capita, and also less useful, as Muggles don’t have special abilities that let them be particularly useful to wizards.
Um, I rather thought the whole point of MoR was to falsify this claim. Unless you’re claiming rationality is not “special” because anyone can in principle have it.
Rationality isn’t particularly common among Muggles. Like, at all. I was thinking more about the physical tools, anyway—there’s nothing stopping a wizard from using Muggle tech as long as they don’t have lots of magic going on nearby (or I would have expected some Muggle-born child to complain offhand about how they can never make the TV work over summer holidays and their parents are annoyed about all the brownouts). Whereas Muggles cannot use wizarding tools one bit—or even see wizarding locations.
On the other hand, wizards don’t have the mental flexibility to see how muggles can be useful to them.
Good point about wizards defecting to the muggle side. You’d need a pure blood conspiracy to have a chance of pulling off a war.