It is mind bogglingly stupid how there is a spell that is just "kill anyone instantly, for free." Why would evil wizards not be exclusively casting that all the time? For that matter, why would good wizards not be using it to kill the evil wizards?
It is mind bogglingly stupid how there is a spell that is just "kill anyone instantly, for free." Why would evil wizards not be exclusively ...
why do people slap spit or punch in real life when they could just use a gun?
The difference is that a gun costs money. Magic is free.
Are wands free?
You don't need a wand to cast magic.
#t=35s
Only extremely powerful wizards can use wandless magic correctly. Avada kedavra would probably end in accidental suicide 99% of the time.
Probably because it’s illegal and morons like to fight? Wouldn’t make sense to NOT use that spell if your life depended on it and you had a fricking wand. That’s like having a gun and refusing to shoot while someone tries to kill you.
>That’s like having a gun and refusing to shoot while someone tries to kill you.
That's literally how gun laws operate in most countries that aren't America.
If you shoot someone in self defense in the UK or Canada you're going to jail. And Hogwarts isn't based on America.
Guns aren’t even allowed there so bad comparison.
they are but there are downsides.
>needs to be registered with local police station
>has to be re-registered every year I think
>each time it's re-registered, you have to provide medical records to prove you haven't been diagnosed as insane since last time
>even if your gun is locked up safe at home, if you get into a fight whether your fault or not and it goes to court, you will be charged more severely for owning a gun and you will never get a licence again
t. know many gun owners
Yeah but you don’t need any of that to own a wand in HP. That’s like if everyone had guns but they banned self defense.
Actually it's a perfect comparison
Guns aren't allowed in the UK, but criminals still use them regardless, and they're easy to obtain on the black market. The only people who don't use them is "good guys"
Except the “gun” allegory is the wand, not the spell. The spell would be shooting it. Wands are legal in the universe, that’s like having an armed population in England.
Learning the killing curse is an analogue for having a gun. It's not a stretch
You don't need a wand to cast magic.
It is verboten
Also it's made clear Voldie uses it trivially when he carelessly murders one of his death eaters for asking if he's okay
wasn't there a plotpoint that the ministry knows when one of them is cast
Not quite, it's just that magic-forensics can identify which spell a wand has cast
so like gun forensics? makes sense convicts don't care, but in a case of assdrunk you'd get caught.
Because they would be sent to Azkaban.
It was always there to use its just "forbidden"
Of course when the hard times come that whole forbidden shit goes out the window
I remember some bullshit about needing to be a really big meanie deep down inside in order to be able to use the nono spells.
I think harry or hermione used one of them at some point, so that can’t be true.
>trustfund baby and a mudblood
The evil wizards do cast it all the time. Unfortunately most of society isn't evil wizards so no matter how high up you are in wizard society if you go around Avada Kedavra'ing all your problems away you're gonna wind up with a permanent vacation in Azkaban or a life on the run. Even the most well connected evil wizard has to pretend they care about the laws they live under.
What's more stupid is there are a bunch of spells that are functional instant-kills but are not forbidden.
>turn someone into a rat
>split guy in half
>random injury causing curses
>apparate someone in half
>leviosa someone fifty feet in the air and drop
>make someone burst into flame
>seal someone's airway
>turn someone into flowers
What is even more stupid is the lack of firearms. Wizards are not jedi and can not sense someone is looking at them through a scope or react to someone firing at them from behind 20 or 5 metres away who did not announce themselves.
No apparently wizards that are stuck in the past have 21st century inner city attitudes towards guns and have no appreciation for super sonic, lethal projectiles and only require a working hand. Every single argument against it is moronic. They could magic away their weapons for the ultimate concealed carry.
How on earth is there not magical infused firearms? They could have completely silent, self replicating ammunition firing at 10,000 rounds per min with 0 recoil that homes in on a target you mark before hand. Even if they had to aim their weapons it would be comically easy to mass slaughter other wizards. All it would take is ONE of them to try and the arms race would be obscene.
"muh muggle weapon" Meanwhile they eat muggle food, where muggle clothes and live in muggle designed buildings, with muggle styled facilities and tools just with magic...
Wizards don’t have any muggle technology.
Guns are just another thing they have no interest it like anything else muggles invent.
A wizard invented broomsticks?
>lol those muggles are so pathetic
>and wait what the frick is a nuclear warhead....
My department had a grad student from London a few years back, took him shooting with me and some buds once - nothing outrageous, just plinking paper targets and bottles with some 22s. Told us he knew all about firearms and we took him at his word until we looked over and saw him trying to load his rifle by forcing a round down the muzzle.
Wizards in JKR's world are all just Euros with their Euro sensibilities amped up to 11, so it makes total sense that they wouldn't just be unfamiliar with firearms, but completely oblivious to them as a fricking concept.
guy in half
Holy shit there's a spell for Bone Tomahawk?
>turn someone into flowers
why isn’t this the go to?
there shoulda been some evil wizard turning all his enemies into trinkets or charms and keeping them on a bracelet
but that would require making a big bad other than Voldemort
Why the frick didn't He Who Shall Not Be Named (Voldemort) create six million horecruxes and mail them into space?
There's only so many times you can split your soul I guess
pretty sure its because the minisirty would catch you and sensd you to get butt fricked by dementors in magic gulag for all eternity
just shoot them. Their magic requires more time than pulling a trigger and its not like they can dodge bullets.
it was written by a woman
"I’m not unhappy about it. I just think that it’s for children,” Margolyes said on Australia’s ABC News Breakfast about being unhappy with adult Harry Potter fans.
She continued, “And if your balls have dropped, then it’s time to forget about it. You know, go on to other things.”
Margolyes acknowledged that Harry Potter is “a great series” and “it’s a wonderful set of films,” adding that she is proud to have been part of the universe.
“But it was 25 years ago. Grow up!” she added.
It's like using a gun in the UK
>mindless arguing over why don't they use guns
>ignoring the much bigger elephant in the room which is that students at magical school would be turning huge titted, huge dicked futanari and just fricking the shit out of each other constantly
>every wall of the castle would just be plastered with cum
>students would almost all be pregnant before graduation
They could just have magical abortions thoughever, or magical birth control
considering some of the weird stuff I did as a teenager, this seems entirely plausible. however, not everyone was like me. I think there'd need to be a house to segregate the coomers from normies and the wizard newspapers would be full of coomer shenanigans
>last night at hogwarts, anon from the house coom tried to use a polymorph spell on hagrids brother to turn him into a giant troony
>anon was found solidified in solidified cum with similar physical properties to amber
>his body will not be exhumed but left at an example and warning to others
I just know Hufflepuff would be the furry degen porn house
Normalgays were the ones who were already actually fricking at school. Only a very small percentage of actual real autists with no sex drive wouldn't be taking part in the magical frickfest
No computers, so no (over)exposure to porn, so only very very few of them would develop such fricked up fetishes at all.
>wizards can easily publish and distribute fully moving pictures, talking books etc.
They would have no shortage of porn
>ignoring the much bigger elephant in the room which is that students at magical school would be turning huge titted, huge dicked futanari and just fricking the shit out of each other constantly
you raise a considerable point here that requires further discussion. According to the lore, magic has no limits. It can assumedly do everything.
BECAUSE ITS EVIL AND YOU WILL GO TO HELL YOU LITTLE SLYTHERINE SHIT
shouted dumbledore calmly
Dumbledore's gonna get metoo'ed in the TV series lol
Because harry potter is dumb
How is instant kill a solve all? How is instant kill gonna create water for you to drink or blast through a stone wall? It’s like saying “why do they use vehicles in war and not just guns? makes no sense!!1!!”
Because its illegal dipshit
The worst part is that the spell is said to cause a PAINLESS death. That's like, what everyone would rather have.
>Oh, you have terminal cancer? Well, spend a few months with your loved ones and tying up loose ands and get Avada Kedavra'd than painfully succumbing to your pain.
a simple luck potion works against any of these spells to make it not hit you, why doesn't the government have any in stockpile.
>Why would evil wizards not be exclusively casting that all the time?
They do, that's part of why it's the dullest franchise in the history of franchise.
>you can just get a gun and shoot and kill people
>why doesn’t everyone just get a gun and shoot people?