Comment on Anon learns a new spell

Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think Buffy taught us that you’d be surprised what can be killed with a shoulder fired anti-tank weapon.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Written before these books, and yet so much more considered.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hot magnesium rounds.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Expecto Ballbearium!

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  • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t even get through a wizard’s robes, they’re enchanted with protego charms (at least according to the books)

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Use white phosphorus, good old Willy Pete don’t discriminate he just incinerates. Well actually he maims but who cares wizards didn’t sign no convention or protocol.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gotta say the words quicker than they can pull the trigger and we have mutliple sylable words try saying one of these before you can click your mouse. Arresto Momentum Protego Protego Maxima Expelliarmus Accio Stupefy

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bummer jk Rowling never made sense out of dueling, or casting spells silently, or apparating sometimes is okay but mostly not. Even if she wasnt an asshole, trying to draw a logical line through the books is absurd.

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    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bummer jk Rowling never made sense

      I think the world building in the Harry Potter series is awful. The rules don’t make internally consistent sense, and the society that came up around those rules also don’t make sense within the motivations of how people behave in that society.

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      • FATALRPG@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s so obvious that she was coming up with shit as she went along.

        The Deathly Hallows were a huge asspull. Trying to make an overarching story was a mistake, the story worked best when it was “monster of the week” standard children’s fare. That kind of format can tolerate the “I’m going to introduce something new that should have wider consequences and then forget about it immediately afterwards” problems (Time Turners, Legilimency, polyjuice potions, love potions…)

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also a bummer that she turned out as a raging anti trans hateful nutcase.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could you continually apparate fresh ammo into your gun?

      Harry Potter, the Kalashnikov and the oil freighter.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Harry Potter and the Rocket Equation.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think we need someone to take the world of harry potter and make it brutally realistic.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t have to say any words when it is a basic protection hex. It automatically activates.

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• Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guns are a lot faster then arrows. There wouldn’t be enough reaction time.

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  • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the books it explains that wizard robes have charms against physical attacks woven into the threads. They’re wearing full body bulletproof vests.

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    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just shoot them in the face?

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      • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s no reason wizard hats can’t shield the face from bullets. In fact, in the later books there might be a hat that does basically that IIRC.

        Besides which, wizard hats have wide brims. And they have scarves.

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    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where in the books does it say that?

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      • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        During the Dumbledore’s army arc, I think book 5. I don’t really care enough to go back and find the quote, but it was a fairly significant plot point in the resistance movement.

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    • TheFerrango@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but imagine magic infused guns

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      • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean yeah, one Bayonetta could take on the entire wizarding world with both hands behind her back.

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By that logic every attack can be protected against when clearly thats not the case.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every basic attack like physical attacks.

    Not magical attacks.

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