So… what stops the dark Lord from seeing Harry’s wand move, then immediately putting up shields? If Harry doesn’t need to move his wand to perform transfiguration then fat enough bullets will work. I don’t know what a reasonable wizard reaction time is, but it’s safe to assume that 0.05c bullets will be too fast to notice. But if Harry has to move, LV can get up shields in time I think.
The next question is, what are you transfiguring? You don’t appear to be able to transfigure the vacuum, and it’s been established that air cannot be transfigured.
Harry only need to move his wand enough to touch his leg. Assuming his hand is already pointing down, this shouldn’t be hard. He can then transfigure either the skin on his legs, or possibly the earth in front of him.
Ok, there is probably transfiguration material and I can’t think of a source that states that transfiguration has wand movements. This therefore seems to meet the minimum criteria (I still think that this is perhaps an obvious solution, so Voldemort will have guarded against it, perhaps all the death eater’s are disillusioned and are casting holograms and ventriliquo charms?)
Existence of one stupidity does not allow for all stupidities. A perhaps unreasonably pessimistic assumption is that everything LV has done so far has been the correct choice, for reasons perhaps not well understood by Harry and thus the readers.
Regardless, the issue with the challenge is that if we can think of a solution, Voldemort is allowed t think of it unless it uses knowledge we know he doesn’t have. The only other viable solutions are ones with no counter. This does have a counter (a very niche one, although I quite like the idea of an invisible death eater army and the visible one all being dummies; there are almost certainly other counters) and thus is not the optimal solution. I don’t have a better one though as this is a horrendously high wall.
So… what stops the dark Lord from seeing Harry’s wand move, then immediately putting up shields? If Harry doesn’t need to move his wand to perform transfiguration then fat enough bullets will work. I don’t know what a reasonable wizard reaction time is, but it’s safe to assume that 0.05c bullets will be too fast to notice. But if Harry has to move, LV can get up shields in time I think.
The next question is, what are you transfiguring? You don’t appear to be able to transfigure the vacuum, and it’s been established that air cannot be transfigured.
Harry only need to move his wand enough to touch his leg. Assuming his hand is already pointing down, this shouldn’t be hard. He can then transfigure either the skin on his legs, or possibly the earth in front of him.
Ok, there is probably transfiguration material and I can’t think of a source that states that transfiguration has wand movements. This therefore seems to meet the minimum criteria (I still think that this is perhaps an obvious solution, so Voldemort will have guarded against it, perhaps all the death eater’s are disillusioned and are casting holograms and ventriliquo charms?)
If Voldemort was being careful he’d have taken away Harry’s wand.
Existence of one stupidity does not allow for all stupidities. A perhaps unreasonably pessimistic assumption is that everything LV has done so far has been the correct choice, for reasons perhaps not well understood by Harry and thus the readers.
Regardless, the issue with the challenge is that if we can think of a solution, Voldemort is allowed t think of it unless it uses knowledge we know he doesn’t have. The only other viable solutions are ones with no counter. This does have a counter (a very niche one, although I quite like the idea of an invisible death eater army and the visible one all being dummies; there are almost certainly other counters) and thus is not the optimal solution. I don’t have a better one though as this is a horrendously high wall.