• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    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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      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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        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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          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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      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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        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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          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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            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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          Could you continually apparate fresh ammo into your gun?

          Harry Potter, the Kalashnikov and the oil freighter.

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

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