![]() ![]() So the purpose of this sub is to allow those who want to rant about a character or series.ĭon't be a jerk: It's okay to talk about characters, because you won't hurt their feelings. There have been countless meta posts complaining about characters or explanations as to why X is overrated, and so on. ![]() “Well then I guess it’s a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1.This is a sub inspired by /r/whowouldwin. ![]() 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: Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound. Let’s see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. 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. 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. 50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a. But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger?Īvada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova. 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). God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. 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.Īnd 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. You aren’t looking at it–you’re looking at a picture of it. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. Rowling didn't put guns in there not because it was a children's book, but because it doesn't tie in with her other themes that wizards prefer to ignore muggle ingenuity. Death is one of the main central themes apart from love and she was now aiming to relate to all of her first readers that at the point were reaching their late teens and early twenties. She killed off so many characters and that's not at all a children's book. By book 5, we are hit with the death of his closest figure to a father and the next two books continue with an even greater list of deaths. Obviously, the books took a much darker tone from book 4 and on, but that's because we first meet Harry when he's 10 (about to turn 11), an innocent unlucky child, and we live through his experiences by seeing him transform from child to adult.
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