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Anon learns a new spell
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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.
I think Buffy taught us that you'd be surprised what can be killed with a shoulder fired anti-tank weapon.
Written before these books, and yet so much more considered.
Hot magnesium rounds.
Expecto Ballbearium!
It wouldn't even get through a wizard's robes, they're enchanted with protego charms (at least according to the books)
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.
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.
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.
Also a bummer that she turned out as a raging anti trans hateful nutcase.
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.
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…)
Could you continually apparate fresh ammo into your gun?
Harry Potter, the Kalashnikov and the oil freighter.
Harry Potter and the Rocket Equation.
I think we need someone to take the world of harry potter and make it brutally realistic.
Not the same but... Mashle
So many other settings did this better.
Don't have to say any words when it is a basic protection hex. It automatically activates.
Guns are a lot faster then arrows. There wouldn't be enough reaction time.
In the books it explains that wizard robes have charms against physical attacks woven into the threads. They're wearing full body bulletproof vests.
Just shoot them in the face?
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.
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.
Where in the books does it say that?
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.
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.
Joanne really gave her child army some bulletproof t-shirts.
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.
Yes but imagine magic infused guns
I mean yeah, one Bayonetta could take on the entire wizarding world with both hands behind her back.
... a gun in each of them, killing two targets at once, mid-backflip, while delivering innuendo.
By that logic every attack can be protected against when clearly thats not the case.
Every basic attack like physical attacks.
Not magical attacks.