Comment on Anon learns a new spell

• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just shoot them in the face?

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  • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the face. Where there is no cloth. Also, just shoot them with a shotgun. That’s gonna hurt like hell and bruise the shit out of them if the threads manage to stop the bullets.

      Just keep shooting at it until it dies. Doom advice.

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• Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where in the books does it say that?

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  • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently, the clothing with permanent shield charms are an invention of the Weasley Twins (harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Jinx-Off). So, not as widespread in the wizarding world as you assume. The article on the shield charm itself lists that most wizards can’t produce a functional shield charm (harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Shield_Charm), so yeah, guess a muggle with a gun could kill most wizards. I apologize for linking to fandom.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Joanne really gave her child army some bulletproof t-shirts.

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      • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, I must have misremembered. I knew their clothes had charms in them. It makes sense that it wouldn’t be something most people would need outside of a conflict.

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• TheFerrango@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes but imagine magic infused guns

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  • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      with both hands behind her back.

      … a gun in each of them, killing two targets at once, mid-backflip, while delivering innuendo.

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