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Anon learns a new spell (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (34 children)

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.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Expecto Ballbearium!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Gotta say the words quicker than they can pull the trigger and they have mutliple sylable words try saying one of these before you can click your mouse. Yeah I know super skilled ones don't need to but you still have to react.

    • Arresto Momentum
    • Protego
    • Protego Maxima
    • Expelliarmus
    • Accio
    • Stupefy
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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Could you continually apparate fresh ammo into your gun?

    Harry Potter, the Kalashnikov and the oil freighter.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just shoot them in the face?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Shooting in the face where there isn't cloth won't necessarily help - if the hat just stop bullets aimed for the head (like a magical forcefield) then it's pointless.

    Also, it's not gonna hurt like hell and bruise the shit out of them - you're citing Newtonian mechanics when it's fucking magic. Hell, maybe the forcefield just deletes the bullet instead of deflecting or blocking it.

    "Shoot at it until it dies" is great advice generally, but if you shoot a water pistol at a fish then you'll be there til you run out of ammo.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Then use magic bullets.

    My god, how much skill issue...

    Also, if you shoot the water pistol inside of the fish, it can either bloat and explode or drown.

    See? The wizard problem has solutions. They must be erased one way or another.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Where in the books does it say that?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Apparently, the clothing with permanent shield charms are an invention of the Weasley Twins (https://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 (https://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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes but imagine magic infused guns

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