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• SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, we know that wizards are vulnerable to physical attack and to surprise attacks. There’s the whomping willow, which they can’t just cast a force field against. There were the spiders and the centaurs in the forest. The big three headed dog. That devil’s something plant. And if I recall, Voldemort didn’t realize the caretaker had come into the house until he was in the hallway and Nagini saw him. Sorry, it’s been a hot minute since I read those.

      Wizards, one would think, could go flinging cars around whenever they wanted to, but they use death spells, even on muggles. Maybe they think it’s gauche to do something so mundane as dropping a rock on someone’s head, I couldn’t say. Jedi use the Force to throw things, but not to just crush someone’s head or rip it from their body. That would take a lot less force (so to speak) than lifting an X-wing, but they still use lightsabers.

      And for what it’s worth, I think a sniper could take out a Jedi, too.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, we know that wizards are vulnerable to physical attack and to surprise attacks…

        the killing curse is probably simply more efficient for the task at hand. It’s also by and large, more discrete. In any case, all the things you listed were evaded by a couple of poorly taught kids. Like literally… children. Fluffy, the devil’s vine thing, (along with all the other challenges from teachers)… one of those kids had exactly a year’s worth of experience with magic. I could also kill an M1A1 Abrams with a rock if I stuffed it in the right place. (I’m thinking exhaust.). Doesn’t mean i want to fight an Abrams with a rock. or… at all.

        again for surprise …[Hagrid’s insistence a mere car crash woudln’t kill the Potters[(www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoeSuboKeBk). They could probably literally just poof into smoke before a bullet ever fully breaks the skin.

        Wizards, one would think, could go flinging cars around whenever they wanted to, but they use death spells, even on muggles. Maybe they think it’s gauche to do something so mundane as dropping a rock on someone’s head, I couldn’t say. Jedi use the Force to throw things, but not to just crush someone’s head or rip it from their body. That would take a lot less force (so to speak) than lifting an X-wing, but they still use lightsabers.

        Jedi use the lightsaber specifically because they’re taught the Force isn’t for killing. They just love running around in bathrobes waving their glowbats around. (stop giggling. no seriously. stop giggling. Okay fine. giggle. a little. mace’s has a vibrating lenses.)

        The Sith have used the force to mow down entire armies, though. for example Maul running amok on a venator. still, the Sith use lightsabers as a symbol- invoking fear and terror, which further powers their dark-side natures. They also use lightsabers when it’s more efficient. (hurling rocks is… taxing, yes?)

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  • nintendiator@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He came from muggle land, so he is probably aware of guns. He could probably easily made his skin bullet proof with some spell. It’s not like wizards can’t invent new spells and magic. They just almost always seem to choose not to. I think the vast majority of wizards are lazy hacks.

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      • fkn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I also think it’s just supposed to be hard to do magic and the spells that are common were built to be common.

        For example, it is possible for anyone to write a new program for their phone. How many people actually can or do? How many people, with some training, can use most of not all of the programs that others have built to be productive.

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• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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