#frank bryce

[overheard-at-hogwarts]

Peter: But, my Lord, why kill the old Muggle? Voldemort: One sometimes kills for the love of it.

[ghostsinmybones]

Also congrats to Frank Bryce 🥳🥳🥳 for being the only known person to have seen Voldemort as a teenager and not immediately said he was hot as shit 🎉🎉🎉 cheers to you man🍾🍾🍾 that must have taken some restraint OR you’re the only true Kinsey 0 to have given us a report on his looks.

[pangaeaseas]

pour one out for Frank Bryce he was in fact CORRECT spies and criminals speak in codes and wormtail is not one but both!!

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

How do you think Goblet of Fire would have gone if in the first chapter Frank brought a gun to the Riddle House?

Yes, Britain has stricter gun laws than the USA, but this is rural Britain. Everyone and their mums are packin' round there.

Hot Fuzz told me the same thing, anon.

There's a few things here but ultimately I'm going to go with it very likely changes nothing and that when I see the "well did they think about USING A BADASS GUN" theories in HP I usually laugh.

Frank, Guns, and Aiming

Frank is in the midst of doing his job. What he likely is carrying is a six-shot handgun, maybe a rifle because this is rural England, but he is not carrying a modern assault weapon designed to spray as many bullets as possible before reloading.

Frank has anywhere from 1-6 shots before he would have to reload (and that's if he's brought bullets).

He has three people (though to be fair one baby) he has to shoot, at a fair distance, and not miss a single one of them, and not even miss but get an instant death shot as anything else one of the others can heal, before they start reacting to him. There's also the snake.

That's asking a lot from Frank who while he lives in rural Britain and carries around a gun but may not be practicing being the fastest draw in the wild west.

Add in bad lighting and such and I have my doubts this is going to work out for Frank.

Would He Shoot?

The thing about Frank also is he was standing there for some time transfixed on "what the fuck is going on?" He gets to listen in on a fair bit of conversation, sees this hideous baby thing, has no idea what they're talking about, and he's just hiding there.

He didn't want to draw attention to himself and he also wasn't realizing that "this is the part where you run, Frank".

His first instinct (which is a sane one to be fair) is not to start shooting the gun without thinking. Which means he's probably once again caught before he gets a chance to shoot anything.

[iamnmbr3]

I'm still sad about how Frank Bryce was ostracized by a whole town because he was accused of a murder he never committed. He deserved better.

[hpnames]

Caretaker of the Riddle House, Frank Bryce was killed by Voldemort when the latter used the manor as a hideout. His murder clued Harry and Dumbledore early on about the Dark Lord’s return.

Frank appears to be a plain name for a Muggle. But perhaps the fact that the word “frank” means “honest” represents how he was innocent when he was accused of the murder of the Riddle family (Voldemort’s doing).

[fanonical]

today we mourn the death of the best hp character, that one crotchety old muggle who was caretaker for the riddle house

[harrypotterstills]