Why didn’t Harry just kill Voldemort with a sniper rifle? He could easily enchant a Barrett M107 50 Caliber BMG Anti-Material Rifle to have perfect accuracy and never miss. He could also enchant the sniper rifle to be perfectly silent with the muffliato charm. Finally, he could enchant the bullets to penetrate even the most powerful shield charms by imbedding each one with basilisk venom.
Think about it logically. All Harry has to do is sit on a hill 1800 meters away from the Death Eater in Chief and with one pull of the trigger 15,580 Joules of pure devastation moving at 854 meters per second smashes into Voldemort’s head faster than you can say “Hagrid Humping a Hippogriff”
BAM. Voldemort would have no idea what had even happened, no time to cast a spell to deter the bullet, just complete obliteration into dust. Harry and friends can go around at their leisure and nuke the horcruxes without threat of the dark lord, then deliver another kill shot to Voldemort while he’s weak and busy sucking face with the back of some wizards head.
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>He could easily enchant a Barrett M107 50 Caliber BMG Anti-Material Rifle to have perfect accuracy and never miss. He could also enchant the sniper rifle to be perfectly silent with the muffliato charm. Finally, he could enchant the bullets to penetrate even the most powerful shield charms by imbedding each one with basilisk venom.
Rowling wrote harry as a crayon eating moron who has good reflexes and chooses to make a stand and help organise a study club when the ministry was purposely not teaching kids magic. when did this meme about him being professor tier great at learning come from? is it all the fan fiction?
Harry knows how to cast those spells and if he wants to do a good job then Hermione can just do it for him. This isn’t high level wizard stuff. Her minor can literally make magic birds that attack people. It’s presumably not difficult to charm a gun to never miss the desired target
>It’s presumably not difficult to charm a gun to never miss the desired target
You want socially inept wizards to:
1.acquire a gun
2.enchant a gun with a homing spell
3.enchant it SO well that the homing spell never misses
most of them can't even cast the spell that only requires remembering a happy memory if they're slightly stressed. what the frick are you talking about?
I’m guessing you haven’t read the books and only watched the movies.
But even the movies demonstrate that Harry can Accio a gun if he wanted to, Hermione definitely can enchant an object to always hit its target because she can learn complex spells well, and they can easily cast a silencing spell on the gun. I’m truly confused as to why you think we are talking about expertly advanced magic here. In Grimault place there were clocks that constantly shot them with bolts and screws and stuff when they walked past
And Harry enchanted snowballs to follow people around and hit them in one book too now that I think about it
The muggle born ones can show them where to acquire a gun. The quick reflex ones can stun muggles and wipe their memories. The smart ones can do enchantments. Dumbledore's army collectively has all the skills needed.
>1.acquire a gun
This parts easy as frick.
1. Go to range, see someone with a Barret
2. Follow em home or put a tracking spell on them
3. Wear invisibility cloak
4. Spell unlock doors and safe, spell mugchuds asleep
5. Fly off on a fricking broom carrying your new fitty cal
People forget that HP wizards are absurd demigods that casually warp reality in a thousand ways.
>muh supersonic lead pellet
A gun is a wand that only casts one spell. It's a spell that's frequently very useful against mundane humans and animals, but no one spell can overturn wizard society, except Adava Kedavera because it's got OP conceptual attack power (snuffs out any life, no matter how it works) and is unblockable/uncounterable. Once wizards start dropping frum sudden lead overdoses, bulletproofing countermagic would proliferate in days. Certainly you might empty some death-eater braincases but that's true of any novel Wizarding battle strategy - it might also be instantly countered (getting ambushed with ranged attacks is not something I would expect wizards to have never faced before) or turned against you.
HP wizards act moronic because they are constantly surrounded by other capricious demigods, and the more powerful they are the more they act like madmen (to muggles) but it's arguably perfectly reasonable in-universe behavior. Dumbledore is much more interested in playing against the top-tier Wizarding meta than fricking around with muggle artifacts, that's Arthur Weasley's thing & it gets him nowhere.
>getting ambushed with ranged attacks is not something I would expect wizards to have never faced before
The last time muggles indulged in witch hunting firearms were primitive single shot weapons. Every time we see a wizard block something, he has to take out his wand and actively deflect it. You could conceivably do that with single shots, but not with rapid fire from multiple angles.
>that's Arthur Weasley's thing & it gets him nowhere
If he can get a car to fly, he should be able to vastly improve the performance of a gun.
They block each spell individually because each spell is different and there's no catchall countermagic that can protect you, especially passively. But a mythological classic like 'stoneskin' would do the trick just fine vs small arms fire. So would any form of intangibility, or metal repulsion, or visual displacement, or transmutation into something that doesn't care about having holes poked through it, or a hundred other tricks that could be dug up out of old tomes on a few hours notice by a few competent adult wizards working together. Frick, Prof Binns the ghost would suddenly be useful, just tap him for anti-goblin strategies used in the rebellions & you're probably 90% of the way there.
(But yes it would likely work great for a while, as most wizards take negligible anti-muggle precautions beyond not attracting attention - again, a perfectly reasonable strategy, a successful masquerade obviates all battle tactics)
>bulletproofing countermagic would proliferate in days
Unless you have some hardening spell you can pre-emptively cast on shit, you're getting smoked.
Nobody can wave a wand at 3500 fps.
I'm glad someone else has pondered this. He could do even better though. With an invisibility cloak and memory charms, you can retrieve whatever you want from the muggle world. He could easily sneak into a military base and bring back all sorts of heavy weaponry. If he felt bad about stealing from the forces he could just take some gold out of his giant Gringott's vault and donate to a veterans charity.
All the kids gathered in the room of requirement could be given an assault rifle with under-barrel grenade launcher. The smart kids like Hermione could operate mortars and calculate shell trajectories for howitzers. Lets see Voldemort try to deflect an artillery assault.
Notice also that wands can be embedded in an object. The pieces of Hagrid's broken wand, for example, imbue his umbrella with magic. Lucius Malfoy has his wand sheathed in a cane. Harry could just as well mount his wand inside an enchanted desert eagle for maximum close range combat effectiveness.
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That’s actually a really good point, Harry could imperio a muggle general and enchant their weapons and have an entire modern army with magic guns at his disposal
Or even better he could give all the enchanted weapons to the house elves at hogwarts and they could teleport around launching magic grenades and dumping mags of magic bullets at the death eaters
>imperio
I don't think he would use a forbidden curse on muggles, as he's a standard mary sue moralgay. There are still numerous ways he could borrow weapons from a military armoury, however.
>house elves
>teleport around launching magic grenades
This is the hilarious kino that will never be made. They wasted so much potential.
>When you read Harry Potter you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
A horror more frightening than any Stephen King story.
where the frick is he going to get a sniper rifle in england
He can fake a loicense and buy a civilian hunting rifle. He can use polyjuice to impersonate a general and take whatever he wants from a military base. He can also fly to whatever country he wants and bring one back.
voldemort owns the loicense factory
plothole is why she didn't become my wife
she wouldve had a great life
Britain innit?
Why not just imperio the prime minister into nuking voldemort base?
Lol
>apparatus behind you
>Accio nuke
Heh…nothing personal voldemort
>nuke
He could go to burgerland and steal one of those cute little nukes they made during the cold war. They were built to be jeep mounted, so a hippogryph should be able to carry it with no problems.
Would Voldemort really be that bad as supreme ruler of the wizarding world?
Unfortunately no amount of ordinance could save him from the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King". And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read Harry Potter you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
>Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series
I'd rather see Michael Bay do it. Imagine the magic duels and quiddich games he would come up with.
This is a shit copy pasta written by an inept moron.
Spielberg is utterly incapable of adapting shit properly if you want him to make a movie about wizards then give him an original script instead of letting him bastardize a book.
Bloom truly is one of the biggest pseuds, seeing how he doesn't read what he criticizes, which can be seen from his focus on literal non issues instead of the glaring massive writing issues Rowling actually had.
Besides anyone who thinks that you will get children engaged in reading by throwing the greeks at them should be hanged for being a moron.
This is why a story about an american wizard would be funny as frick.
A magic western could be high kino. Cowboy wizards with enchanted revolvers that never miss. Potion-brewing witches who run saloons. Indian shamans with remote viewing powers. Plantation owners putting obedience spells on their slaves. Voodoo priests breaking the obedience spell. Why has no one done this?
>Why has no one done this?
Sounds too interesting, can't have that
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlands
As usual /tg/ does it best.
Thanks anon. Someone should make it a Cinemaphile series though.
If the PM is aware of the existence of magical bullshit would he not also be aware of the civil war? Why wouldn't he just Blue Streak Hogwarts during the battle and solve the problem once and for all?
He probably gets all his info on the magic world from a contact at the ministry of magic. This would explain why the death eaters had to get control of the ministry before they could do anything else in the open.
This does beg the question of why Dumbledore never told the prime minister what was going on. A combined force of the Order of the Phoenix, SAS and Royal Marines could wipe out all of Voldemorts followers in a single night.
Getting muggle soldiers involved in Wizarding battles is probably useless.
One charm against bullets & they're essentially unarmed, against dark magic users you're just begging for them to get Imperio'd & sent back at you, etc.
Would work much better for Voldy himself to use enslaved muggles as cannon fodder (Hogwarts wizards would probably feel they had to deal with them nonlethally) but he considers himself above that sort of thing.
>Getting muggle soldiers involved in Wizarding battles is probably useless.
Muggles would roll wizards up in a rug and chuck em in the nearest river, it wouldn't even be close.
>One charm against bullets & they're essentially unarmed
They have no fricking idea how bullets work, aside from perhaps the old single shot arquebus type firearms from hundreds of years ago.
Arthur Weasley is the expert on all things Muggle and he doesn't know what a rubber duck is. You think they could come up with a spell that stops bullets quick enough to save themselves?
No fricking way.
>you're just begging for them to get Imperio'd & sent back at you
God invented sniper scopes for a reason.
You have to see the enemy coming to do any of those things though. Magic won't save you if they burst in through all your windows and doors without warning, or shoot you from a sniper's nest 500 yards away. Dumbledore could send a wizard with each platoon to counter any passive charms or curses.
Once the target is neutralized, the wizard checks the surrounding area for magical traps. Then the marines come in and secure the area while the wizard wipes the memories of any civilians who saw what happened.
That’s true and this would kick ass as a concept
There’s a reason wizards went into hiding
Another thing muggles have had to learn is coverups, because we don't have memory charms or timeturners to make all our embarrassing secrets go away. MI5 would be given a full report on the operation and instructed to make sure none of it ever comes to light.
The glowies would create elaborate conspiracy theories about wizards and magic. They would spam them online and organize entire conferences around them, just like flat Earth shit. That way if anyone ever talks about the wizarding world they will just sound crazy. Even if the soldiers themselves talk about what they saw, people will just assume they have gone crazy from PTSD and feel sorry for them.
>That’s true and this would kick ass as a concept
Yeah it's called Shadowrun
A modern day van helsing swat team is a badass premise.
Why didn't Voldemort just use a nuke? Checkmate athiests.
You guys are fricking moronic. Guns are not legal in England, ok? It's a gun free zone.
The whole point of the Horocrux angle is that you can't just shoot Voldy. Sure, it would turn him into a barely alive ghost head thing like in the first film, but blowing Voldy's brains out wouldn't actually kill him permanently.
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