Why didn't he use a gun instead? It would have been much easier than murmuring stupid spells

Why didn't he use a gun instead? It would have been much easier than murmuring stupid spells.

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Why are the magic words in Latin? Are they still Latin in other continents?
But if other places use different magic words, then what's the point of magic words?
The words clearly mean something, since we see spells go wrong purely because of mispronouncing the word.

Why use a gun when you train everyday for 6 years with a wand?

Are there peer reviewed articles on the science and physics of wands?

Englanders are without guns.

my guess is spells were brought to the human realm and given human context by people who chose to name them latin words

Everybody gon respect the shooter
But the one in front of the gub lives forever

Why did the movies have such a dark tint and gritty feel when the books aren't like that at all.

Maybe magic works like computers, all the commands were written in latin, and now all the wands and magical items understand latin, so switching to something more modern would be too much work.

Are you kidding me, the books get dark

How exactly do you see it in your mind? Like this?

Yeah, I didn't like the movies past 3rd or 4th movie. I read all of the books, but once again the 3rd or 4th books were best. I would have been happy if the 4th book ended the bullshit. The rest was just a mess. I just didn't feel the need for Harry to go through all of that negative shit. Rowland just kept writing more shit. idgaf anymore, this is all old news to me.

Because one of the dullest franchises in the hist- ah fuck it

For a childrens book, maybe.

>britbois
>guns

Because plot

not op, pretty much like that but with a little darker filter and without the trap harry

Are there any good books, movies or tv-series about this? I mean magic vs guns, seems like an interesting idea to explore.

It's simple: they didn't want to kill nobody. Harry basically spent all 8 movies and 7 books just using Expelliarmus, and never once used something like Avada Kedavra, which is a forbidden spell. Harry was really regretful about using Sectumsempra against Malfoy. And makes sense, killing or deliberately injuring people is very off-character.
My question is about how much muggle culture can enter into Hogwarts. Wizards are very paranoid about muggles finding them, so they create their own bubble. They are very ignorant about muggle technology (but they definitely should), and only some wizards like Arthur research about it. Could Harry teach his friends some UK freestyle?

Limeys can't have guns.

Imagine 11you Japanese or Russian kids trying to pronounce Vingardium Leviosa properly.

Potter should indeed have used a gun, more precisely on HIMSELF, that way we could have been spared coming into contact with one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. 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 r-right

"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.

excellent intro

>When you have to be corrected in every thread
Embarassing

not like the training helped him lol, he was still shit

he was such a bitch ass nigga

Wizards are more innately resilient to regular injury than muggles, and can cast protection from projectile spells on top of this.
They're in fake latin because of convention mostly, also so it's easier to practice. If you get gud enuff you can cast without words or even a wand at all.

If someone's good enuf he can cast spells nonverbally

YOU WOULDNT KILL A ROACH WITH A MAGIC SPELL

10/10

>when a stay at home mum beats a deatheater in a duel
heh nothin personnel bellatrix

Imagine a British or American trying to pronounce Latin without murdering it

Another garbage thread made by the aussie estronaut from the reylo threads

DOUBLE OBSESSED

bahahahahahahaha

Sectumsempra can kill via decapitation.

The books and movies were so influential in England that their guns are required to have wands.

Harry didn't know what it did when he used it on Malfoy, and then never used it again after that.

>nearly headless? how can he be nearly headless?
was she fucking retarded?

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Why even use Avada when Sectum has no projectile? (Voldemort)

why doesnt children's media live up to my manchild standards?

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what

I always thought the same about the Imperius curse

>No projectile
>Only indication of effect is slightly dull looking eyes
>You can tell them to act normal and when they're alone to kill themselves
>Only defense is to be Harry Potter
>No way to prove it was anything but a suicide

You can even walk around with a spoon in England and you expect him to have a gun?

The defintion of "handgun" in lots of legal systems, including British, is about its length, if you attach a long metal rod to it like that it becomes a rifle and is legal.

it's for children and liberals
What did you expect?

1. protection against accidentally saying some spell while talking in english, this also allows the words required to be fewer
2. latin was the first language to be used for spells on a bigger scale in the roman empire and it just stuck
3. Using a gun is easier but less flexible and eventually less powerful: You also have to remember that very advanced sorcerers eventually dont need to say any words anymore: Even the wand is technically optional although pretty much required for any kind of advanced, targetted spell.

avada causes a lot of pain whereas sectum is like a guillotine

Also the death spell can be blocked by physical objects ( which ends up exploding on impact )

Couldn't he aim at a wall and calculate how the shards might fly and get harry killed indirectly?

lmao cool

>Avada Kedavra

They didn't use it because they can't, it requires you to have a savage desire to kill, righteous fury can't make it work.

They still used lethal spells in the battle, Confringo and Sectumsempra are more than capable of killing

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>try to perform house chores with magic
>mispronounce the words
>end up murdering a relative

advanced wizards don't need to say the name of the spells they use, the names are just ways to adress the spell but not the spell itself

Voldemort literally did nothing wrong by splitting his soul. Who wouldnt if this could guarantee him eternal life and security against death?
His only mistake was the way he hid the soul pieces. I mean cmon, if he had any kind of sense he would hide them so nobody could ever find them. (on the moon)

How do spells even work? Are they pre-packaged chunks of raw magic that react to the words? What about silent casting then? What if you speak the words but don't have the proper thoughts behind them?

This entire setting is just garbage, nothing about magic is properly explained.

Why not read/watch something good instead then? Or is your entire being to appease pop nerd culture?

>Why doesn't magic work like science?
Because it's magic. You sound like the kind of autist that would like HPMoR.

>How do spells even work?
Magic.

I want a scene where femDraco and Harry are having some sort of conflict and then Harry draws his wand and femDraco pauses for a second before walking slowly over to him, putting the tip of his wand in her mouth and licking it in a sultry manner (with the implication that the wand could be a penis)

subtext is very arousing

Soul fragments can probably be detected with some sort of magic radar, so he has to actually guard them. Either that or it's another case of Rowling being a hack.

dumb retard, all these questions have okay answers by thinking about it for 3 seconds

>be Voldemort
>be doing evil shit
>cackling loudly in your lair
>hear the blast of a shotgun ripping away the hinges of your door
>door comes crashing down with a kick
>before you even have time to stand, a small object comes rolling through the smoke-filled doorway
>FLASHBANG.mp4
>everything goes white for at least five seconds as the grenade activates all photoreceptor cells in your eyes
>can't hear a thing
>lose balance as the blast is so loud that it disturbs the fluid in your ear
>operators from the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, America's elite soldiers, renown for their speed and violence of action, storm the room in pairs within two seconds of the blast, putting their backs to the wall and spreading out left to right so they can all have clear shots on you
>before you even have time to process what's going on, they fire into multiple 5.56mm NATO rounds into your chest
>as you collapse, chest sucking from multiple gunshot wounds, unable to breath, lifeblood draining from you, one of the Deltas walks up to your failing body and administers a "security round" to your fucking head

How could Harry use Sectumsempra if he didn't even know what it does? What is the process of creating a new spell? Do you have to put it into some kind of metamagical registry?

you just imagine real hard what you want and then the magic happens because you have magic blood inside you.
you simply associate some random words with it so that your mind will remember the right feelings and thoughts more easily and more quickly in the spur of the moment when you want to cast

Good intro but why a-at least is not green texted?

>you just imagine real hard what you want and then the magic happens because you have magic blood inside you

But Harry didn't want to open up Draco's abdomen, he was extremely upset at the result and only used it because he thought it would be another prank spell from the Snape's book

Based "No!" poster

Because no one other than brainlets laughed out of /lit/ think the books are good

He knew it was "for enemies", he knew the incantation and he knew the wand movement.

ok senpai, I got you: When spells have been used very often, they create an imprint in the magical lines of the world, they work sort of like a magnetic field.
Once an imprint with a certain word has been established it is much easier for people to cast spells just by saying the words. Harry did know that the spell was "for enemies" as indicated in the book and he *was* very angry while casting it, fulfilling the basic requirements for the spell to work

Imagine if you knew this much about actual film and not trash for children

God I hope no one from /lit/ or Sup Forums are lurking. They'll never back the new /film/ board and protect us from Sup Forums and Sup Forums

>>everything goes white for at least five seconds as the grenade activates all photoreceptor cells in your eyes
>>can't hear a thing
>>lose balance as the blast is so loud that it disturbs the fluid in your ear

Interesting, I was reading about flashbangs yesterday and these lines are verbatin to what's written on wikipedia. I wonder if the pasta is taken from there or the opposite.

I liked 1-3, and 7 was done well. My issue with 4-6 was that they had to cut too much out: In 1-3 they were making 2 1/2 hour movies off of books ~300 pages, 4-6 they were trying to do 2 1/4 hour movies with books twice that long. 7 was good because they split it up into two movies, so they didn't have to cut out all the details that gave the universe it's character.

Came here just for this

Isn't it canon that guns trump magic every time?

He'll regenerate because that wouldn't destroy his soul, but w/e, just shoot him again.

Why didn´t he use stungun then ?

So raw magic is semi-sentient and is capable of pairing incantations with spells. What if I traveled back in time to make a new "Sectumsempra" at the same time Snape did, except mine shoots diarrhea from the tip of my wand?

Which one would be "imprinted"? Would it have a 50-50 chance between cutting and spraying shit?

You really like dicksucking people you'll never meet on the internet, huh

>avada causes a lot of pain
There's no proof that it's painful. In the book it's described as being like a puppet having it's strings cut. It also leaves no mark on the victim, and the specific mechanism by which it kills the person is never elaborated on. It's true that, in the last book, Harry feels pain in the spot where he got hit with the killing curse after he comes back from the train station with Dumbledore, but that's not an issue for someone who got killed.

Why are wizards fine with muggles in the third world starving to death? Couldn't they magic up some food? Cunts.

>Why are wizards fine with muggles in the third world starving to death?
Because wizards see muggles as barely a step above livestock.

Britian's schools are gun free zones and their citizens actually obey the law.

Don't pakis carry AKs?

No
I'm not a fan of our gun laws at all, but I can't think of a crime in the UK committed by a paki with an AK

I always thought the wizards stayed hidden for so long because they fucking feared the wrath of muggle warfare.

Or
>be Voldemort
>open front door
>get your head blown off from a mile away by a sniper

No, Americans just repeat it so much that people believe it.

scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/160098/did-j-k-rowling-say-that-a-gun-would-beat-a-wand

Same. We may not be able to say fancy words in Latin and shoot lightning from a stick, but we can put a 500lb bomb within two feet of you dropped from an aircraft a mile above you.

Courtesy of Scout Snipers

Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12.
And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal.
Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger?
Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova.
Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.
I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series:
"Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1."
And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.

Wasn't there a theory that the reason wizards are cutoff from the real world is coz they got btfo a long time ago?

In other words, exiled.

>be USA military complex
>drop the bomb on Hogwarts
>kill 300 children
>voldemort was not even in the same county

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Can it even cut that deep?

:)

now THAT's how you do an intro

If it was inherent to 100s of years of wizarding culture, I think they would be able to pronounce fine the words that they require for everyday life, it would be second nature.

You're goddamn right.

Why did English become the major lingua Franca for international business? Because of the huge influence of the British Empire. I'm sure the Roman Empire had much of the same effect early on in the magical community.