Leon/Caroline
No, they won't always be viable. People will get hurt. I'm all for minimizing that, however.
None of you brought me here for strategy, but all right. The risk with bombs that send shrapnel and cause physical damage is high compared to the payoff, and I'm still not sure what we were intending to do with so many non-Death Eaters around. (They can't all secretly be Death Eaters at this point, can they?) Maybe something more with just smoke? Noise? Something that would have impeded their ability to see and clear it easily, but didn't directly put non-targets in the line of fire (unless everyone was a target, which is another discussion). This wasn't the residence of a known Death Eater, does that make sense? This was mixed company. I would have no problems setting fire to one of their residences, but I think we need more caution when it comes to mixed company. Maybe we have allies there. Maybe we had allies.