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.
"Americans had to have a wand permit. Legislation announced by MACUSA at the end of the nineteenth century meant that, unlike witches and wizards in the UK, all US wizards had to carry a wand permit."
"Moreover, wands had to be left at Ilvermorny during vacations and only upon attaining seventeen years of age was the witch or wizard legally allowed to carry a wand outside school."
This is totally un-American and unconstitutional.
When I was a kid we carried our wands from home to school and back. We had dueling clubs in schools and DADA classes. There wasn't this epidemic of mass-cursings.
A wand is a fairly simple device to make. Any witch or wizard who read a book can make one from a stick and some enchanted magizoological animal parts. And these proposals to ban these so called "unforgivable assault curses" are ridiculous because a knowledgeable wand owner will know there are many spells just as lethal, yet MACUSA won't ban them.
When you enact wand control, that means only dark wizards will have wands. The only way to stop a dark wizard with a wand is a light wizard with a wand.
God made all men. But Ollivander made them equal and Johannes Jonker made them civilized.
Remember the scene in The Chamber of Secrets, the Weasley's and Harry are sitting at the table eating breakfast. Then Arthur Weasley said he had "Another successful raid on a misuse of a Muggle artifact." And that could only mean one thing. He's an ATF Agent confiscating firearms from American Wizard/Witch Civilians exorcising their God Given 2nd Amendment rights!
This mod is awesome. I saw this before starting my first playthrough and thought it would be funny to play with. I'd recommend not to play with it until after you customize your wand at Ollivander's. You cannot see the original model for the wand while customizing if the mod is on.
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When I was a kid we carried our wands from home to school and back. We had dueling clubs in schools and DADA classes. There wasn't this epidemic of mass-cursings.
A wand is a fairly simple device to make. Any witch or wizard who read a book can make one from a stick and some enchanted magizoological animal parts. And these proposals to ban these so called "unforgivable assault curses" are ridiculous because a knowledgeable wand owner will know there are many spells just as lethal, yet MACUSA won't ban them.
When you enact wand control, that means only dark wizards will have wands. The only way to stop a dark wizard with a wand is a light wizard with a wand.
God made all men. But Ollivander made them equal and Johannes Jonker made them civilized.
You'll take my wand from my cold dead hands!
Defund the ATF!
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