• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      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
      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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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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      1 year ago

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

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        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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            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.

            • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.worldBanned
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              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.

              • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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                10 months ago

                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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                  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.