Literally could have happened in Harry Potter. It actually drove me crazy. There were two separate times in the series that she made it abundantly clear that the average wizard doesn't even know what a gun is let alone how dangerous it can be.
I'm willing to bet Protego would stop a bullet but the average wizard wouldn't even try because they would just be laughing at the silly little muggle pointing a piece of metal at them.
I think a bullet may even be faster than a wizard casting protego.
This could quickly be explained away as a contingent spell that specifically stops common muggle weapons.
The one moment that really irks me in the concept of wizard wars is a moment in deathly hallows. The gang are captured in Malfoy Manor and Harry manages to grab 3 wands from Draco Malfoy's hand, and casts stupify on Fenrir Greyback, who is hit with thrice the intensity and fucking basically dies.
If this works why aren't wizards rocking bundles of wands, let's see Harry use expeliarmus to counter Voldie's wizard wand Gatling gun of avada kedavra, or a bundle of wands casting sectumsempura and fucking turning a wizard to mince.
Wanna hit me with the torture curse you wizard nerd? I'll just use my bundle of sticks, my wand strap to Wingardium Leviosa you straight into the sun.
True but in my mind I'm always picturing something like a mugging? Where they don't know they're up against a wizard? So then you run into the same problem but from the other angle. The muggle wouldn't think twice about giving the wizard time to say the word protego
In the D20 season Misfits & Magic they call this sort of thing out, where Brennan's character mentions nukes, the wizard has no idea what they are, and he's like, "You gotta know. You gotta know what nukes are."
The somewhat regrettable fanfic Methods Of Rationality has Quirrel pull a fucking uzi on Harry. Totally reasonable for a well-traveled megalomaniac to have in his robes. A tool for every occasion.
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Rowling was great for branding, but not good for internally consistent worldbuilding. Hogwarts has anti-tech wards, but its never specified whether a Glock 9, a Bic rollerball, A CANON EOS 35MM, or a TI-84 Graphing Calculator would work. Each of them work based on widely differing physical mechanics. Are they independently warded, or are they waved away by the category tech?
The common consensus regarding the HP books as they are is that in a muggle war, the international community would quickly dominate, and magical secrets would fall into the hands of billionaires like Bezos and Musk, who could muster far greater cruelty and misery than Voldemort's ambitions, all in the name of profit.
The reason there's a codefied masquerade is to keep magic exclusively in the hands of
less creativemore sensible minds.If I remember correctly it was mentioned somewhere that magic causes electrical / electronic devices to malfunction.
I remember in Prisoner of Azkaban the anti-tech field around Hogwarts was briefly mentioned, though much ado was made over Arthur Weasley's flying Ford Anglia which he wasn't supposed to enchant but totally did. Arthur's department in the MoM is about regulating intersections between magic and tech, which implies there are problems that require legal prohibitions. My read is the laws are overly harsh and not well enforced, except when the state or some official wants to make someone go away.
That said, again, Rowling wasn't great at consistency in the canon, so it remains up to the writer if and how electronics might be affected by ensorcellments, and how they might be integrated.
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As a reader of a certain web serial, watching her deal with not being an innate magic user by using spell cards was very fun. That world didn't know what hit them.
I haven't watched the full series yet and still need to since it's just sitting on my hard drive
But I have always wondered if there is one sigil or multiple combined sigils that could basically act as a medium for luz to use magic normally
Oh boy are you in for a ride
Sounds like Katerina Donlan.
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Seconded
Its a Disney series called The Owl House, but there's also a great comic series based on the show here on lemmy drawn by moringmark.
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I think it’s owl house comic
The owl house
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No weapon forged can...what does that do?
"avada kedavra" bang
Yay Owl House content
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