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[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 1 day ago

That fancy magic won't protect him from a .308.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Ok, this has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.

Here's why:

Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.

Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it.

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.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal.

This had me in stitches

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's my favorite copypasta. I can't believe I was the first in this thread to post it.

Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Classic copypasta.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Heads up Harry might wanna shelve the Barrett. Idk if the .50s are having the same issues as the m22s, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzR9tsg1ao

[–] meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

IF I WENT TO HOGWARTS I WOULD USE PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

NO MAGIC SPELLS ARE GONNA WORK ON ME

I'D BE SNAPPING SOME WANDS SUPLEXING THE GOBLINS

POLYJUICE POTION?

NAH IM DRINKING CREATINE.

WENGARDIUM LEVIOSA?

HOW BOUT YOU SHUT THE HELL UP.

AVADA KEDAVRA?

AVADA THESE NUTS.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about testis tortius?

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I laughed out loud at this. I know the Reddit sub always makes this joke. Does it have origins before that?

[–] Buffman@lemmy.world 164 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“I got 57 more goddamn rounds in this 4 rounds magazine”

[–] FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 53 points 2 days ago

“Alakablam”

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The one on the right saying 'would' absolutely makes it.

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

50 Shades of Grey was a Twilight fanfic.

What I'm saying is, my good sir... Youre onto something magical here.

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 135 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

"The more sophisticated a magic system is, the funnier it is to pull out a gun"

Snape, probably

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

Sounds like something Pratchett would say

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In the American version of the books, they changed kids hexing each other in the corridors for shooting each other instead, to make it more believable.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 86 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Harry shotter and the chamber of bullets.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 days ago (28 children)

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.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Buffy taught us that you'd be surprised what can be killed with a shoulder fired anti-tank weapon.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] TheFerrango@lemmings.world 14 points 2 days ago

It’s over Miss Granger. What do you say?

I cast ICBM

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Lil magic nerds halfway through "Avada ka-" before a 5.56 round blows out the back of their skull.

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