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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
As if they didn’t have some simple hex that can protect them from physical projectiles.
They would have been killed a long time ago by arrows.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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…)
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also a bummer that she turned out as a raging anti trans hateful nutcase.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Could you continually apparate fresh ammo into your gun?
Harry Potter, the Kalashnikov and the oil freighter.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Harry Potter and the Rocket Equation.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think we need someone to take the world of harry potter and make it brutally realistic.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Don’t have to say any words when it is a basic protection hex. It automatically activates.
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Guns are a lot faster then arrows. There wouldn’t be enough reaction time.
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.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just shoot them in the face?
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.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Where in the books does it say that?
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.
TheFerrango@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Yes but imagine magic infused guns
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean yeah, one Bayonetta could take on the entire wizarding world with both hands behind her back.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
By that logic every attack can be protected against when clearly thats not the case.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Every basic attack like physical attacks.
Not magical attacks.
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.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Written before these books, and yet so much more considered.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Hot magnesium rounds.