Father Weasley, can’t remember his name, repeatedly shows us that wizards raised purely in the magical world are unbelievably stupid when it comes to the non-magic world so it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if they didn’t even know what a gun was.
Wait a minute. We can go deeper. In the deathly hallows, when they tell the story about the invincible wand, the original owner loses it because someone straight up cut his throat — no magic. Harry also takes it from Malfoy by beating the shit out of him.
The one on the right saying ‘would’ absolutely makes it.
idgi
‘Sorry, i have to kill you in a messier way now’ while revealing the fact they’re absolutely ripped.
To which the goblin responds ‘would’[fuck with that in a sexual manner]
Thanks
Such a simple skit but his performance in this is magnificent. I think I looked up some other videos from them, but they didn’t quite manage to capture anything equally as hilarious.
That skit how they use shotguns in movies never fails to get me though.
That’s why us Latinos aren’t represented in the series. Jose el Mago would have walked up to the guy and just shanked him a bunch of times and taken his shoes
Probably a good thing JKR didn’t include any Latin American wizards in the series. They probably would have ended up practicing a form of magic that was basically just Aztec blood sacrifice. No way it wouldn’t be racist as fuck. This is Rowling we’re talking about. Her goblins are thinly veiled Jewish stereotypes, she has happy house slaves, and the African wizards are literal witch doctors.
And they would be called Rodrigo Rodríguez
Rowling was always known to be slightly racist but people mostly dismissed it as a sort of fantastically stupid racism. As in, the “ha ha this racist stereotype is so dumb, see how ridiculous it looks when I put it in my wizard book” sort.
I don’t think it was until she started going full TERF that people began to realise that she’s not making fun of the stereotypes; she actually thinks casual racism is a funny and cute thing to do.
50 Shades of Grey was a Twilight fanfic.
What I’m saying is, my good sir… Youre onto something magical here.
As if they didn’t have some simple hex that can protect them from physical projectiles.
They would have been killed a long time ago by arrows.
I think Buffy taught us that you’d be surprised what can be killed with a shoulder fired anti-tank weapon.
Written before these books, and yet so much more considered.
Hot magnesium rounds.
Expecto Ballbearium!
It wouldn’t even get through a wizard’s robes, they’re enchanted with protego charms (at least according to the books)
Use white phosphorus, good old Willy Pete don’t discriminate he just incinerates. Well actually he maims but who cares wizards didn’t sign no convention or protocol.
Guns are a lot faster then arrows. There wouldn’t be enough reaction time.
In the books it explains that wizard robes have charms against physical attacks woven into the threads. They’re wearing full body bulletproof vests.
Just shoot them in the face?
There’s no reason wizard hats can’t shield the face from bullets. In fact, in the later books there might be a hat that does basically that IIRC.
Besides which, wizard hats have wide brims. And they have scarves.
In the face. Where there is no cloth. Also, just shoot them with a shotgun. That’s gonna hurt like hell and bruise the shit out of them if the threads manage to stop the bullets.
Just keep shooting at it until it dies. Doom advice.
Where in the books does it say that?
During the Dumbledore’s army arc, I think book 5. I don’t really care enough to go back and find the quote, but it was a fairly significant plot point in the resistance movement.
Apparently, the clothing with permanent shield charms are an invention of the Weasley Twins (https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Jinx-Off). So, not as widespread in the wizarding world as you assume. The article on the shield charm itself lists that most wizards can’t produce a functional shield charm (https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Shield_Charm), so yeah, guess a muggle with a gun could kill most wizards. I apologize for linking to fandom.
Joanne really gave her child army some bulletproof t-shirts.
Oh, I must have misremembered. I knew their clothes had charms in them. It makes sense that it wouldn’t be something most people would need outside of a conflict.
Yes but imagine magic infused guns
I mean yeah, one Bayonetta could take on the entire wizarding world with both hands behind her back.
with both hands behind her back.
… a gun in each of them, killing two targets at once, mid-backflip, while delivering innuendo.
By that logic every attack can be protected against when clearly thats not the case.
Every basic attack like physical attacks.
Not magical attacks.
That fancy magic won’t protect him from a .308.
It’s over Miss Granger. What do you say?
I cast ICBM
Lil magic nerds halfway through “Avada ka-” before a 5.56 round blows out the back of their skull.
Sometimes I feel like these stories are just generated content or made up, like a fairy tale. Well, if they’re posted too often, maybe they are. I’ll probably pass by because I can make up a story about another anon myself lol.
If you get to the point where a gun is required, you have already lost something.
Yeah, use land mines and claymores instead far more indirect and I don’t there’s magic that can reverse being turned into chunky salsa. Also never have just a gun have multiple preferably in multiple directions so the ones using the guns can’t be taken out in one fell swoop.
TBH I think the dark wizards are better with covert ops so letting them learn about explosive devices might be a bad move.
First they have to figure out what the fuck is killing them, depending on how it’s used an explosive doesn’t really explain what it was beyond being an explosive. A short fuse grenade duck taped to the inside a door doesn’t leave a lot after it’s gone off, sure you know Frank the evil wizard is at best screaming in agony and missing a limb after an explosion but beyond that? Also it’s kinda a trope that evil wizards are technophobic and only want to rely on their magic, the ones who don’t are often the dangerous ones though in a lot of media they are also hermits who want to commit crimes against nature in peace.
I remind you that Voldemort would have to die from it like 7 or 8 times.
He is cheating.
Might as well nuke the zone at that point.
I feelime theres artillery and high yield explosives in between land mines and nukes.
Holy fucking shit, amazing. Saved and sent that to a few of my friends. Thank you for improving my day.
“I got 57 more goddamn rounds in this 4 rounds magazine”
“Alakablam”
“The more sophisticated a magic system is, the funnier it is to pull out a gun”
Snape, probably
Sounds like something Pratchett would say
I’m a little bit surprised Rowling didn’t throw in something about some human technology not working in the wizarding world, like electronics and firearms. Surely this came up while the books were being written.
I hate JKR too, but she literally did. Wizard clothes are enchanted with protego charms which turn away any mundane attacks, and wizards really have no reason to fear muggles. During the witch trials some would allow themselves to be burned at the stake because they liked how the flames tickle. It’s very much a ‘magic must defeat magic’ setting.
No one thought to make magic bullets to counter protego charms?
Isn’t that just the killing curse with extra steps? Magic is a lot harder to evade.
Iirc it is mentioned electricity is finicky. But given that fire works, it stands to reason all chemical reactions work. Ergo firearms.
Don’t they drive a car? and ride a train? so combustion works… kind of has to work
For all we know the hogwarts express runs on magic and so does the car, after all it flies.
For all we know the hogwarts express runs on magic
It makes steam.
Magic steam.
So it’s electric?
Sub-etha steam-o-matic.
Aesthetic is more important than practicality.
Pretty sure wizards are familiar with old technology like trains and cars. But like another comment said, muggles are advancing while wizards stagnate in their old ways and traditions and shit since they keep themselves so separated.
Combustion is very old technology. Putting it inside a different machine (e.g. a gun or a car engine) doesn’t change the chemistry. If you want to get right down to it, we’re just talking about oxidation - which means that in any sort of world where rapid oxidation doesn’t work (i.e. explosives), your lungs also don’t work because you need that oxygen bonding with the iron in your hemoglobin or you die.
If you can light a fire, you can make an explosion. If you can make an explosion, you can use it to launch a projectile.
There’s no world in which fire exists but guns are impossible. Even if you don’t have the metalworking sophistication for a modern gun, you could still make a Chinese-style gunpowder rocket.
Or just straight up bombs. The beauty is that an IED can catch even a master wizard off guard. No need for metalworking, and since they use cars, well… surely there is some character with Irish roots, right?
This is a world with flying broomsticks and cars, teleportation, and even time travel.
Of course you can get away with saying gunpowder just doesn’t explode here.
Gunpowder is just fire propagating at the speed of sound through solid (powder). As long as sound exists, the magical world can’t contain the angry dust.
Combustion, sure, but not an explosion. Or the car is a special magic car or whatever.
Explosions are combustion.
And really we’re just talking about oxidation. If oxidation works (which it must, because the characters are breathing) then chemically-propelled projectiles must also work.
Look, we’re talking about a world where people fly around on broomsticks like we ride bicycles.
Of course you can just declare that firearms don’t work.
I mean… not if your fantasy world has any internal consistency… and if it doesn’t then it might as well be Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Combustion, sure, but not an explosion.
I hate to do this to you, but that’s kind how explosions work (i.e. combustion).Nope, there’s a fundamental difference between a fuel/air mixture burning and something like gunpowder, which is a self oxidising propellant. Most explosives are in the latter category.
More specifically, that’s how cars with a combustion engine work: lots of tiny explosions.
No, they’re a combustion event. An actual explosion (detonation, pre ignition) is really bad news for an engine.
Firearms use a self oxidising propellant, so it would be quite easy to say that just doesn’t work.
What, pray tell, do you think is in gunpowder? It’s not magic dust that goes bang. It’s a pre-mixed, pre-compressed mixture of fuel and oxidiser. When used in a gun, whether it’s a muzzle-loader or a cartridge, the confined combustion of the mixture generates thermal energy and expanding gases that impart kinetic energy on a moving component (the piston or a projectile). The only difference is that the combustion event in an ICE is subsonic (deflagration) while the combustion in a gun is supersonic (detonation).
The only difference is that the combustion event in an ICE is subsonic (deflagration) while the combustion in a gun is supersonic (detonation).
So what you’re saying is there’s a fundamental difference between the two?
@Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works is correct.
I should’ve done my homework before going all “well akshullay 🤓” on them (sorry!).
The only similarities between the two is that they both are chemical reactions that produce a rapid release of energy. But past that, they are much different in how they get to that point.
Don’t be coy, you absolutely love doing this.
but she did just what you described
I remember reading it
I don’t remember which book but I also have this clear memory of a quick passage saying all the magic around them was messing up with electronics.
Also I’m pretty sure in the Deathly Hallows they use the internet to follow Death Eaters sighting while they are in hiding
(Been a while… and I’m not bothered enough to go check 🤣)
its either directly in the books refering guns specifically or… it might have been an official out of the books source.
i used to be interested in this shit over a decade ago when the last books weren’t yet finished: there was a fancy flash based official site where lore snippets and bullshit from jk got published
