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[Descan]

Unless you're Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres.

:I

Well, yes, but if he had never read it, he wouldn't get the reference.

Shush up, you. 

[JoshuaFH]

I watched the last HP movie with my cousin just the other month, and being someone that is not at all ingratiated into the HP universe, I found myself constantly asking why they used wands to blast at eachother rather than just, you know, use a gun. Probably alot cheaper to get mooks, or hell, just animate some golems that have atleast one arm and hand and give'em conventional weapons.

I'm probably missing the point.

[Kadzar]

I think it's because they're British.

[Max White]

Because who ever heard of mobster wizards? The notion is absurd! Crazy! Ridicules! And above all, awesome!
I totally want mobster wizards now. No not mobster with wizard powers who just replace guns with wands and cars with flying cars, I'm talking full on mobster wizards!

[MaximumZero]

I've always wondered...what's up with the wands, anyway? A powerful wizard shouldn't need a stick to help him/her out.

[Sirus]

I've always wondered...what's up with the wands, anyway? A powerful wizard shouldn't need a stick to help him/her out.

I think the idea is that wands provide a conduit for a wizard or witch's power. That's why they're made of magical materials like unicorn hair.

[Duke 2.0]

 Although great wizards can cast spells without one silently with their minds.

[Max White]

I think the idea is that wands provide a conduit for a wizard or witch's power. That's why they're made of magical materials like unicorn hair.

The implication of that being large unicorn ranches where they slaughter unicorns for wand hair. I wonder what they do with the meat...

[Valid_Dark]

I think the idea is that wands provide a conduit for a wizard or witch's power. That's why they're made of magical materials like unicorn hair.

The implication of that being large unicorn ranches where they slaughter unicorns for wand hair. I wonder what they do with the meat...

Spoiler: This (click to show/hide)

[alway]

Yep, it's a focusing device. Some magic can be done without one, and is in the books a few times, but is almost entirely uncontrolled beyond a very, very limited idea of about what it should do.

Also, I'm pretty sure taking a few hairs doesn't require killing the animal.

[Sirus]

I think the idea is that wands provide a conduit for a wizard or witch's power. That's why they're made of magical materials like unicorn hair.

The implication of that being large unicorn ranches where they slaughter unicorns for wand hair. I wonder what they do with the meat...

Actually, in one of the books Olivander reminisces about capturing a unicorn in order to cut off some hair. Killing a unicorn is considered unspeakable evil in the HP universe.

[Max White]

Also, I'm pretty sure taking a few hairs doesn't require killing the animal.

And I'm pretty sure milking a cow doesn't require killing it either, but here I am, drinking a milkshake, drenched in cow blood from the waste down, wearing a dismembered cow head like a hat.
Shit is gonna be how it is gonna be.

[Duke 2.0]

 As a bonus, drinking unicorn blood provides a cursed method of living longer.

[penguinofhonor]

What about phoenix feathers? They're a renewable resource. Pluck the feathers, then kill it and raise the baby until its feathers are suitable. At a factory phoenix feather farm you therefore have dozens of phoenixes in eternal, inescapable torment.

[Max White]

What about phoenix feathers? They're a renewable resource. Pluck the feathers, then kill it and raise the baby until its feathers are suitable. At a factory phoenix feather farm you therefore have dozens of phoenixes in eternal, inescapable torment.

Square Enix has been doing it for years...