Harry Potter and why its world building is so boring? - Avada Kedavra vs M16

Has anyone ever wondered if Harry, the famous Boy-Who-Lived, had posers or those who claimed his identity? Has JK ever thought of that or is the Wizarding world somehow omnipotent and stupid at the same time?
 
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Vecr said:
I'm sure someone did. Maybe Yudkowsky. Do you want me to check?
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Go ahead. I mean, there's just no way that someone would pass such a scam up. Unless, of course, Rowling believed that "magical wizarding Britain would never let that happen, because MAaaaaAAAaageeeeeeekkkk".

Never have I been more grateful of growing out of a book that, apart from the other wildly significant details that make it even more retarded in hindsight, you get to fill in some nifty little details that make it exponentially more goblin schlock malignant in how it mocks people's intelligence. It's fantasy, I get it, but my faith in the human race took a nosedive the moment I actually rubbed two brain cells together and realized, this. This is what defined an entire generation for nearly two decades. :stress:
 
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Gorillion others said:
Has anyone ever wondered if Harry, the famous Boy-Who-Lived, had posers or those who claimed his identity? Has JK ever thought of that or is the Wizarding world somehow omnipotent and stupid at the same time?
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Well, considering how one of the replacement teachers was fraud who was erasing people's memories for his own gain; there should logically be someone who had tried to piggyback the fame off of that incident.

But the wizarding community has been so superstitious about the immortal albino that it almost qualifies as satire and the one means of actually impersonating someone is ultimately an temporary solution. It would have been nice to see an ween claiming that he's Harry Potter, probably as an tourist from another country, though
 
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Go ahead. I mean, there's just no way that someone would pass such a scam up. Unless, of course, Rowling believed that "magical wizarding Britain would never let that happen, because MAaaaaAAAaageeeeeeekkkk".
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Actually, I got it wrong. There's a joke that goes something like "there are three Harry Potters on this train" and it's heavily lampshaded, but in the first part I don't see any scam. I'm not going to read the whole thing to check thoroughly though.
 
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Vecr said:
Actually, I got it wrong. There's a joke that goes something like "there are three Harry Potters on this train" and it's heavily lampshaded, but in the first part I don't see any scam. I'm not going to read the whole thing to check thoroughly though.
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Yep. Exactly. "I'm Harry Potter. Look, I even got the scar!" :story:
 
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It's certainly clear that Rowling hadn't thought that far ahead in terms of international Wizarding society in the early days, and would have been content to not expand any further had the fanbase not been supremely retarded and autistic, since magic just so happens to be "hurr durr, big castle, bearded wizard, witch, magic wand, British noises, British noises, ineligible cockney bullshit that nobody outside Britain who understands that retardation is even gonna bother".

There's also the rather "bizarre" (i.e. stupid) cultural differences between normal society and Merlin's crackshack that is Wizarding society as a whole. Can anyone here list them? Pretty please?
 
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Vecr said:
A smart wizard with full training?
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Fluoxetine Man said:
Can a muggle with a gun kill a wizard?
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EDIT: I replaced "isn't" with "is".

If it's plot convenient, yes. A fully competent wizard (provided it is their definition of "competent") will indeed fall to a gun. If the wizard in question just so happened to be staring at the gun and tilting his head at it like someone deep in the spectrum, it'll be the very last thing he sees.

They call the damn things "Muggle wands" for crying out loud. There's also the matter of reaction time. Modern weaponry, even a simple handgun, is damn near impossible to react to. If it just so happens to be a sniper, then they're dead. No matter how versatile magic seems to be (unless it's a spell that they only use once and forget the next instance), Muggles are simply more innovative and continue to be. I believe that to be one of the major flaws of a society that has something so convenient at their fingertips.

Complacency.
 
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Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
The hatred of HP books is over the top. they're good books, just overrated by idiots. Saying they're bad books is overreacting to the actions of immature white women.
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They're pretty good for their target audience. But the last four get dragged down by too much fluff even though the actual definitive moments of the books are still good.
XYZpdq Jr. said:
iirc JKR has legit confirmed that a random muggle with a machine gun will drop at a least a few wizards before they can aveda cadavera
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Does the shield spell they use not work against bullets? Are the other wizards too stupid to use a spell to knock the machine gun away from the user or stun the machine gunner?
 
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Does the shield spell they use not work against bullets? Are the other wizards too stupid to use a spell to knock the machine gun away from the user or stun the machine gunner?
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It's because they don't have time to react. Dumbledore and Mad-Eye would probably not let themselves get ambushed. From my understanding of the books, I never read them again.
 
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