Harry Potter and the Military Industrial Complex

  • @juliebean@lemm.ee
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    08 months ago

    of course muggles would win a war against wizarding folk, that is why they made the international statue of secrecy (also cause jkr is a hack who never wants to bother extrapolating from the consequences of her own worldbuilding)

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      This is not clear cut. One teleport into a nuke silo + a brainwash spell = big problems

      Edit (yes maybe one or two other brainwashes to get the proper codes forwarded)

      • @juliebean@lemm.ee
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        18 months ago

        that’d be an issue, though nukes are pretty indiscriminate, and wizarding folk generally live among muggles, not in one isolated wizard country, which limits their usefulness. they can’t exactly nuke london without destroying diagon alley, and vice versa. plus, you need to know your destination pretty well to apparate, so there’d need to be some more involved infiltration beforehand.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          18 months ago

          Sure, I’m handwaving a lot, just saying the ability to manipulate minds and teleport to places (even with the kidnapped person) presents an x factor that is hard to overstate.