Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And why goblins have to do their accounting for them.

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The series would have ended much sooner if Harry had brought an AK47 to hogwarts

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  • thorcik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Outstanding

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    • denast@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Typical Koldovstoretz graduates

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Although that could also be them being perplexed by the fact that muggles did it with no magic at all.

  Imagine us discovering a species that developed computers and tech just like ours, but using neither transistors nor electricity.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not familiar with the series, what’s muggle technology?

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Muggles is wizard song for non-magical human beings. Like Darren on Bewitched would be a muggle.

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Muggle is a racial slur used by magic-able people to refer to magic disabled people.

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    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not a slur, you’re thinking of mudblood

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      • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There can be more than one slur. Muggle is debatable I believe.

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      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The preferred term is NaMP - Not a Magical Person/Non-Magical Person. You could also say “Person of Non-Magic,” but it’s hard to pronounce “ponm.”

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Non magical people living in the real world. It’s you. You’re a muggle.

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    • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You don’t know that

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      • fkn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I do know it, via magic. You can’t prove I don’t know, because you’re a muggle.

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Non-magical people’s tech. Aka our technology.

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  could hogwarts defeng itself against modern weapons? like missils and shit?

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah. Easily.

    Reducto or any of a dozen other spells that make shit explode, magical barriers, simply transfiguring the weapons to something else… telekinesis. Simply not being there.

    And before you add “what if they were surprised…” …. It’s possible, but remember how shocked Hagrid was about the lie the Dursley’s told Potter? “A car crash?! A Car CRASH?! Kill lily and James potter?!….”

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    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know. I’ve always thought a sniper could have taken out Voldemort. Far away, camouflaged, and the bullet gets there faster than the sound. It’s a reaction time thing.

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      • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Obviously, JK Rowling was not a tactical mastermind.

        However in the universe she created, any powerful wizard worth a damn would simply keep protective shields up all the time, especially against such simple things like “fast objects hitting them”.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I would expect Voldemort to have protective spells keeping things like that from happening.

        If it were that easy to kill a witch or wizzard… then there’s lots of ways to go about that. He wouldn’t have needed a special wand to fight Harry. he’d just fling a ginormous rock out of nowhere.

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      • nintendiator@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure but anyone can win any fight if they have position and prep time that the other party doesn’t: under the same logic Voldy can easily kill any sniper so long as he knows there’s one (and in a war, there is one). Reminder, at least in the movies he doesn’t actually need to aim for Crucio, and he can manually and literally laser crush a castle-wide energy barrier .

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      • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reaction time isn’t really relevant when you are good at divination and ultra sensory perception.

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    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok but you’d have to have pretty fast reaction times to transfigure a bullet just sayin

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        pretty fast reaction time to not die in a car crash, too. and your forgetting the part about wards and protection spells just stopping things cold.

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