Expecto patronum my ass!

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Obligatory Classic: Harry Potter with Guns

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  • Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The best part is, that it’s not just a trailer, but the entire film was edited like this

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ha, nice. I’ll have to try to find the full copy to go along with my copy of Wizard People, Dear Reader.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hahah, the scene where he opens his inheritance vault with all the bullets. Man, thanks for the laugh

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    • Goatboy@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Opening with Dumbledore just shooting out the lights.

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• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As funny as this is, there is some bull crap reason in the books explaining that muggle devices tend to not work well when close to places with too much magic

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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I remember some lore drop about how they had a poop disentegration spell at one point, which is like… bruh, outhouses, c’mon.

    vice.com/…/yes-harry-potter-wizards-pooped-their-…

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  • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This made me think about what would make a magic gun in the setting superior to a regular gun. Assuming it’s just more powerful it shouldn’t make much difference since everyone is just running around with a wand that can kill someone at will anyways. In the case of the weird wand connections that I barely remember even happening outside of one scene in the books (and more often in the films) I suppose it would be useful.

      The main advantage of a gun would seem that it is instant (no incantation, just aiming) and could probably be silenced.

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    • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So there’s this game called Arknights, which is set in a universe where they didn’t figure out the gunpowder, but they gave rocks that can be used to fuel the magic (and also give you magic rock cancer, go figure). So they have guns, but they’re basically only usable by one race of characters that are known for their innate talent for precise magic control, and everyone else sticks to crossbows and ballistas, or else more traditional magic.

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I recall that was just electronics no?

    Like we’ve seen them use fire at hogwarts. Simple chemical reactions still occur. That’s all a gun is, a spark, gunpowder, and a tube. Frankly this is just potions class

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    • YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, its all mechanical. Put a machine gun up in one of the towers Image and when Voldermort and the gang roll up in a nice tidy group open up.

      Malfoy: Image

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Revolvers would work, surely. There’s zero electronics and an extremely simple internal mechanism. If door hinges work, so should revolvers

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  • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I really like the way that The Dresden Files handles it.

    Magic tends to fuck with precision mechanics and electrical systems, which means that modern weapons are much more likely to jam when in the presence of magic auras.

    As a result, the main character, who is a wizard tends to use a .44 revolver as his sidearm because anything more precise is going to be unreliable.

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Artillery it is then.

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Percy Jackson did this so much better by explaining only imperial gold or celestial bronze can be used to craft weapons that could harm powerful entities.

    So naturally some dude loaded celestial bronze bullets into his warplane’s (probably .50 cal M2) machine guns lol

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you think “too much magic” can stand up to “too much MURICA?” I think not, good sir.

    All he has to do is chant the spell “AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!”

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right, so no shotguns? Easy. Sniper rifles, no problem.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Step one would to be a wizard I guess, otherwise you’ll never even find the castle and forgot what you were doing so you are just back to trying to find someone wanting to play corn hole

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  • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The gun is his patronus

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Given a choice between what’s canonical and what’s cannonical, I know which one I’m picking.

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Expect a projectile motherfucker!

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  • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d more likely expect somebody sitting on his ass 5m behind the place where he was when pulling the trigger looking stupid and holding his forearm. I’ve seen smartasses firing regular machine guns like this. No matter how strong you think you are - It just doesn’t work.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I ain’t got time to expelliamus.

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll expel your ass, nerd!

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t threaten me with a good time!

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Zoltraak-47

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good ol’ American magic

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I ain’t got time to bleed…”

  “You got time to duck?”

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• Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Accio gun

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• My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does USA ever even get acknowledged in the HP universe? I can’t remember any instance of a yank showing up in any of the books or any reference to the North American continent.

  “America…well…we magicked it away. It was full of Voldemorts.”

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don’t really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game.

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    • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gotcha. I left the franchise after Book 7 and its two movies. I’ve watched maybe 15 minutes of one of the FB movies (maybe the second one?) while on an overnight flight and was immediately lost and not entertained enough to commit, especially when Forrest Gump was an alternative option.

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  • plm00@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The first movie of Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them takes place in the US. Otherwise mentions are minimal, if any, in the HP series.

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• OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Expecto patron-”

  just fucking riddled with bullets

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• ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Goddammus sexualis tyrannosaurus! 🪄💦🥾

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like how Misfits and Magic handles this where wizards straight just have never heard of nuclear weapons.

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• diykeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Aveda cad…” BANG.

  The end.

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• lietuva@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  avahduh kedahvrah mothefucker

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jesse “The Body” Ventura. The former governor of Minnesota.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What would be his name?

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    John Brown, if he’s fighting to free house elves.

    John Browning, if he’s going after death eaters

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  • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @django@discuss.tchncs.de

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