• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    4 months 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.

      • absentbird@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        4 months ago

        It wouldn’t even get through a wizard’s robes, they’re enchanted with protego charms (at least according to the books)

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          4 months ago

          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.

    • Thorry84@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      4 months ago

      I think Buffy taught us that you’d be surprised what can be killed with a shoulder fired anti-tank weapon.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      4 months ago

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

      • absentbird@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        4 months ago

        In the books it explains that wizard robes have charms against physical attacks woven into the threads. They’re wearing full body bulletproof vests.

          • absentbird@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            4 months ago

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

            • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              4 months ago

              with both hands behind her back.

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

          • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            4 months 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.

            • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.worldBanned
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              4 months 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.

              • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                9 days 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.

    • Destide@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      4 months 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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          4 months ago

          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.

          • FATALRPG@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            4 months 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…)

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          4 months ago

          Could you continually apparate fresh ammo into your gun?

          Harry Potter, the Kalashnikov and the oil freighter.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        4 months ago

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