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He carries a lot of spare wands if you get my drift.
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Squizzle posted:instead of an insular culture of boarding school dipshits, american magic is woodland goobers and mega-goon fbi guys That is 100% better than what Rawling came up with for American magic.
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# ? May 17, 2020 01:06 |
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it's actually canon that harry turns his magic body cam off before avada kedavaring unarmed goblins. Just so he doesn't lose a fight of course.
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# ? May 17, 2020 02:37 |
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VideoKid posted:That is 100% better than what Rawling came up with for American magic. American magic should have been the beverly hillbillies but with magic. Butternubs posted:it's actually canon that harry turns his magic body cam off before avada kedavaring unarmed goblins. I assume the magic body cams paint the scene the wizard cop says they saw, and why would they lie
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# ? May 17, 2020 03:34 |
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Nah, American magic is Freemasons and weirdo secret societies in the east coast, decaying plantations racists in the south, and the Magical Equivalent of Techbros in the West.
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# ? May 17, 2020 05:05 |
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as extremely not funny as 'harry potter, cop who kills minorities' is, it also doesn't make sense, because the setting has multiple infallible lie detectors and the burden of proof is on the accused party to drink the truth potion and say they didn't do it rather than on the accuser to provide evidence
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# ? May 17, 2020 05:17 |
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ungulateman posted:as extremely not funny as 'harry potter, cop who kills minorities' is, It's actually called "harry potter and the quill that definitely looked like a wand from a distance."
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# ? May 17, 2020 05:56 |
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ungulateman posted:as extremely not funny as 'harry potter, cop who kills minorities' is, it also doesn't make sense, because the setting has multiple infallible lie detectors and the burden of proof is on the accused party to drink the truth potion and say they didn't do it rather than on the accuser to provide evidence Its mentioned the truth serum is unreliable and some wizards posses innate immunities to it, in addition to only revealing what the subject believes to be true. Further, you can bypass it by binding the information to be only able to be given out by the subjects own choice which the serum cant do since its an external compulsion. You can also just ingest its antidote preemptively. Lastly Rowlings own notes state that even if Sirius took the serum and recounted it to the Wizengamot, they would have just said he bypassed it and ordered that testimony invalid
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# ? May 17, 2020 05:58 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:the Magical Equivalent of Techbros Why is Ponder Stibbons calling me a pedophile over the clacks
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# ? May 17, 2020 06:52 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Rowling wanted Terry Gilliam for the movies, and you know what he'd have made something interesting out of that. We'd still be waiting on Chamber of Secrets.
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# ? May 17, 2020 08:10 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Nah, American magic is Freemasons and weirdo secret societies in the east coast, decaying plantations racists in the south, and the Magical Equivalent of Techbros in the West. Prob best that she didn't try to get into voodoo
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# ? May 17, 2020 11:01 |
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currently listing to the audiobooks (currently early book 2) and this thread is v. good
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# ? May 17, 2020 12:17 |
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Barudak posted:Its mentioned the truth serum is unreliable and some wizards posses innate immunities to it, in addition to only revealing what the subject believes to be true. Further, you can bypass it by binding the information to be only able to be given out by the subjects own choice which the serum cant do since its an external compulsion. You can also just ingest its antidote preemptively. Now the imperius curse, that'll do the trick!
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# ? May 17, 2020 12:20 |
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i bet they have a statue of harry potter at hogwarts that motherfucker
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# ? May 17, 2020 13:03 |
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reignofevil posted:Now the imperius curse, that'll do the trick! Enhanced Wizarding
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# ? May 17, 2020 14:00 |
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Harry Potter and the Unexpected Defenestration
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# ? May 17, 2020 14:05 |
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If Gilliam directed then the original Dumbledore actor would have died during principle shooting and there would have been massively over budget and had some major delays due to studio meddling.
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# ? May 17, 2020 14:21 |
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dialhforhero posted:If Gilliam directed then the original Dumbledore actor would have died during principle shooting and there would have been massively over budget and had some major delays due to studio meddling. Several actors got decapitated in a helicopter scene that got cut from the final movie after he couldn't find a way to make magic helicopters work.
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:04 |
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a.lo posted:i bet they have a statue of harry potter at hogwarts that motherfucker a Magical statue! one that can think but not move or talk
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:09 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Rowling wanted Terry Gilliam for the movies, and you know what he'd have made something interesting out of that. A Harry Potter movie where 3/4s of the runtime is baby boomer whining about how bureaucracy is inefficient and people used to talk to each other maaaan. a.lo posted:i bet they have a statue of harry potter at hogwarts that motherfucker Harry Paterno and the Statues of the Living
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:12 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Several actors got decapitated in a helicopter scene that got cut from the final movie after he couldn't find a way to make magic helicopters work. no that's the john landis version Gilliam's version would probably have been bad but would at least have had the courage to put in the Bruce Springsteen song they almost included
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# ? May 18, 2020 10:20 |
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Franz Ferdinand were almost The Weird Sisters band at the Yule Ball in the fourth movie but they backed out when an existing band with that name started agitating for a payoff from the studio and they didn't want to get wrapped in a legal proceeding.
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# ? May 18, 2020 15:02 |
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In the human wizard war that Voldemort imagined how was he planning on dealing with all the crazy non magic weapons? Does an ICBM give you enough warning to disapparate away? does St. Mungo's know how to deal with Nerve gas injuries? Can you Avada Kedavra someone through 2 inch thick steel tank armour? the death eaters would 100% get crushed by the muggle military industrial complex.
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# ? May 21, 2020 12:38 |
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Voldemort narrowed his snake-like eyes as he gazed into the night sky. He had anticipated that Dumbledore might warn the muggles, but not the force with which they would respond. Bellatrix had been incinerated in a hot flash, before the first syllable of repello inimicum could pass her lips. But a team of Death Eaters could very effectively scry the heavens, and this time he was forewarned. "Bring him." he hissed, and two hooded wizards dragged a young man before him in chains. Neville Longbottom had wasted away in captivity, but his blond hair was still recognisable. Voldemort glanced upwards, and will an almost imperceptible motion of his wand disabled the thermonuclear device hurtling towards them. Now he just had to wait. Back at missle command Harry finally took his hand off the key, where it had been resting for the last twenty minutes. He looked across the control panel at Ron, whose eyes were fixated on the camera feed from a high-altitude drone. "Harry..." Ron mumbled, "I think that handful of pixels is Neville." In a panic, Harry took his wand and babbled the torturous Latin words of the anti-fission spell, fruitlessly disarming the already defunct missle. Horrified by the near miss, he collapsed back into the high-backed chair. The Dark Lord, however, was not relying on nuclear fission. Leaning in close to Neville, he seized the young man's wand and pointed it skywards. "accio inter-continental ballistic missile" he whispered, before disapparating, dropping Neville's wand in the dirt. Neville, weak from hunger, scrambled for the wand. josh04 fucked around with this message at 15:40 on May 21, 2020 |
# ? May 21, 2020 13:20 |
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I don't think open warfare was necessarily the idea nor necessary; wizards have mind control and memory wipes, and through a painting that can't be removed have access to 10 Downing Street. And all of their communities are completely hidden from the world.
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# ? May 21, 2020 15:18 |
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Yeah, like assuming you got the drop on a Wizard with a gun or missile you could kill them sure. But Wizards hang out in places you literally can't know exist, have the ability to destroy memories, can teleport, have the ability to learn any information they want if they capture someone, can put someone under complete mind control etc. An actual all out war would go so poorly for the non-magical people it wouldn't even be funny because magic is just insanely ridiculous bullshit.
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# ? May 21, 2020 15:29 |
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josh04 posted:Voldemort narrowed his snake-like eyes as he gazed into the night sky. He had anticipated that Dumbledore might warn the muggles, but not the force with which they would respond. Bellatrix had been incinerated in a hot flash, before the first syllable of repello inimicum could pass her lips. But a team of Death Eaters could very effectively scry the heavens, and this time he was forewarned. "Bring him." he hissed, and two hooded wizards dragged a young man before him in chains. Neville Longbottom had wasted away in captivity, but his blond hair was still recognisable. Voldemort glanced upwards, and will an almost imperceptible motion of his wand disabled the thermonuclear device hurtling towards them. Now he just had to wait. Nuclear missiles don't have abort buttons 4/10
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# ? May 21, 2020 15:33 |
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Have made appropriate revisions, lmk if this helps.
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# ? May 21, 2020 15:36 |
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josh04 posted:Have made appropriate revisions, lmk if this helps. no abort button, magic still very real, 10/10
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# ? May 21, 2020 15:39 |
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The wizards should simply magically enchant guns which would use the muggles technology against them and also be sick as hell.
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# ? May 21, 2020 15:54 |
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Butternubs posted:In the human wizard war that Voldemort imagined how was he planning on dealing with all the crazy non magic weapons? Does an ICBM give you enough warning to disapparate away? does St. Mungo's know how to deal with Nerve gas injuries? Can you Avada Kedavra someone through 2 inch thick steel tank armour? the death eaters would 100% get crushed by the muggle military industrial complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqjR1gHyIQ
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# ? May 21, 2020 16:28 |
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Yeah magic is literally a deus ex machina literary device so no way in hell it would have gone well for muggles.
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# ? May 21, 2020 18:15 |
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dialhforhero posted:Yeah magic is literally a deus ex machina literary device so no way in hell it would have gone well for muggles. Unless they decoupled the frequency in the tachion emissions field
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# ? May 21, 2020 18:22 |
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Even if the game itself wasn't very good and the story didn't really do justice to the setting I always liked the premise of the old computer game Arcanum where magic and technology are continuously ebbing and growing in inverse power to each other and recorded history is just the millennia of relative calm and quiet in between the cataclysms that inevitably result when magic or technology reaches the point of being powerful enough for people to destroy not only themselves but their entire civilizations. Like in Harry Potter world magic has been steadily declining for centuries and technology has been making leaps and bounds each generation, and the segregation of wizarding society from common people is as much about being in denial of the fact that all their most powerful wizards and spells and relics came about long ago and even the most powerful modern wizards like Voldemort and Dumbledore are still left fighting to reclaim the leftovers of those days like the Deathly Hallows while muggles are growing exponentially more powerful developing weapons of mass destruction and the internet. Nicolas Flamel gave up his immortality from the Philosopher's Stone because he is the only living person who is old enough to remember how things used to be and he can no longer stand the existential terror of steadily growing weaker while technological apocalypse looms on the horizon with no way to stop it.
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# ? May 21, 2020 19:03 |
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the wizards could definitely win, and possibly without a shot being fired, but the risk of a whole bunch of people dying even to non-nuclear firepower is pretty unpalatable when there are approx. ten thousand wizards in the entire UK (or some similarly comically low number)
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# ? May 22, 2020 01:17 |
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wizards could win on paper, but the vast majority are too dumb, careless, and ignorant to do so. hermione might kill the PM, but the big wizard army would march down a field in plate armor and get hit by a predator drone.
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# ? May 22, 2020 02:49 |
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Always felt like part of the joke was the Death Eaters espouse pureblood supremacy but spent most of their time wiping out so many pureblood families that there's even fewer ways they can keep going without having kids with muggles.
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# ? May 22, 2020 05:20 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Always felt like part of the joke was the Death Eaters espouse pureblood supremacy but spent most of their time wiping out so many pureblood families that there's even fewer ways they can keep going without having kids with muggles. I think it's mentioned that some of them aren't even pureblood themselves and they get fake documents to state otherwise.
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# ? May 22, 2020 05:26 |
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Butternubs posted:I think it's mentioned that some of them aren't even pureblood themselves and they get fake documents to state otherwise. I mean, neither Voldemort or Snape was a pureblood. Snape is particularly stupid about it because he nick-named himself 'The Half-Blood Prince' after his magical mother Eileen Prince (Tobias Snape was a Muggle). Voldemort at least lied out his rear end and made sure everyone thought he was a pureblood.
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# ? May 22, 2020 05:31 |
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Isn't it supposed to be a more weirdly specific thing about English classism where the muggle-born are the nouveau riche whereas the purebloods are either generationally wealthy or they're weird artifacts of the system that don't have much wealth left but still count as upperclass? And then it's very narrow and specific, since the other class divides in the wizarding world are portrayed as mostly cool and good. I really resisted getting started on the books when I was a kid, enjoyed them for a little bit, and then started to hate the books towards the end when Harry was getting super angsty and I just started to realize that he wasn't very good at being a wizard and everybody would be better off if they gave the important responsibilities to somebody else instead of this dumb kid.
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