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[Harry Potter] If the British government decided to go to war with the wizard world what would the outcome be?

Could wizards be defeated with conventional muggle weapons, as they need to be prepared to deflect a spell could they deflect a sniper shot that came unawares or could perhaps some shield spell deflect it?
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I think that the wizarding world as a whole would survive, although it would be utterly devastated by war. Any wizard who tries to actually *fight* the muggles is going to lose. They have numbers on their side, and technology that can match most defensive magics. A lot of the wizarding community's leading figures will be killed while trying to defend those who can't get away fast enough. 

But those who know to take a more subtle path, living among muggles and making judicious use of oblivate and other memory charms to manipulate rather than fight muggles will see much more success. A canny wizard can sway public opinion, control leaders, and manipulate events and *memories of events* all while hiding in plain sight. That's something that the muggles can't fight back against as easily. 

The probable outcome is a small group of surviving wizards exercising almost total control over muggle society from the shadows, with perhaps a magical/technological resistance group (perhaps even of former wizards) as their only opposition.