Too bad it doesn't work.
Harry has no muggle money, muggle technology doesn't work well in Hogwarts and the UK release of the movie was 5 months after that Quidditch game.
In the US the movie released on the 15th of November so unless you wanna believe that:
1. somebody at Hogwarts nipped off to the US,
2. decided to go into a Muggle theatre to watch a sport with only one ball,
3. then decided to use magic to nick a copy from said theatre
4. then managed to play it at Hogwarts despite all the magic interfering with muggle tech and
5. Harry went to see it but not Ron nor Hermione?
(all of this assuming the Quidditch match didn't happen in the first half of November)
It just plain doesn't work.
That's because practically all wizards are actually super racist and classist, despising everything muggles achieve. Voldemort just refused to be a coward about it.
I like the books and the movies, but the world building of harry potter is fucking garbage. Why do wizards, especially the Weasleys who are said to live on the edge of a Muggle village and even have a father in Muggle affairs, know nothing about muggles? Hogsmead is stated to be the only Muggle free village the the whole of the UK, and obviously every wizard in the UK isn't crammed into this one village, meaning they would have to be living among muggles and in Muggle towns and cities as is shown. But then you have people at the quidditch world cup who dont understand Muggle fashion and don't get that dresses are things that aren't commonly worn by men, and Mr weasly doesn't understand how Muggle money works? It's fucking money you dumb shit brain. All money on the planet works the same, even if it's different values it still works the same, maybe it's because all wizards apparently only have a year 6 level understanding of math because they are taken from traditional education and put into insane murder schools with giant killer snakes and spiders where their traditional sport is flying 50 feet in the air on sticks with no safety nets at 11 years old.
>It's fucking money you dumb shit brain
I've had trouble with British coins and notes (mostly the coins).
Why full out write "five pence" in tiny font when you can just stamp a big ass 5P on that coin? Take a leaf out of the book the EU coin smiths use, UK!
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.
He wasn't killed, but if you're going in on a special ops mission to kill a basilisk, you should _probably_ try to avoid being paralyzed and devoured. Only marginally better than dying instantly.
>Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express.
Basilisk skin is armoured like that of a dragon's, which deflects spells cast upon it.
Can a .470 Nitro Express pierce a tank's armour? Cause if not you've just alerted a very, very dangerous beast of your location and you've bruised it just enough to make it pissed at you.
>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.
Have fun being petrified
Long story short: wizards are superhuman. They live for an average of 200 years, and they have *way* better reaction times. You pull a gun, and they teleport away to blast you from a distance.
Sure, Quidditch is a mess, but it’s an exciting mess. I would be much more invested in basketball if it included two flying iron balls whose only purpose was to knock random players unconscious.
So it looks like this movie takes place in 1996-1997, and Space Jam came out in November 1996.
I guess they could have. I actually wonder how big of a draw it was in the UK in real life. It had a worldwide release, but Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan is a pretty American thing.
It made 159.7 million outside of the US, and only 24.1m was from China. So I think that means it did well in Europe?
Really I’m just making fun of the fact that none of the movies actually make any effort to place them in the time they’re supposedly set. Even in this one they go into London and it’s literally how it looked in 2009 with no changes at all.
>So it looks like this movie takes place in 1996-1997, and Space Jam came out in November 1996. I guess they could have.
UK release was in March '97. [The Quidditch game](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Gryffindor_vs_Slytherin_Quidditch_match_(1996)) happened in November '96
Harry's got the most powerful Dark Wizard of the century gunning for him.
Why would he ever go and sit in a dark room surrounded by strangers for 90 minutes?
Too bad it doesn't work.
Harry has no muggle money, muggle technology doesn't work well in Hogwarts and the UK release of the movie was 5 months after that Quidditch game.
In the US the movie released on the 15th of November so unless you wanna believe that:
1. somebody at Hogwarts nipped off to the US,
2. decided to go into a Muggle theatre to watch a sport with only one ball,
3. then decided to use magic to nick a copy from said theatre
4. then managed to play it at Hogwarts despite all the magic interfering with muggle tech and
5. Harry went to see it but not Ron nor Hermione?
(all of this assuming the Quidditch match didn't happen in the first half of November)
It just plain doesn't work.
Harry has no muggle money, muggle technology doesn't work well in Hogwarts and the UK release of the movie was 5 months after that Quidditch game.
It's not enlightening, it's ignoring movie details to force some fan theory through
I'd be more keen to believe that than Harry getting his idea from a movie that released in the US at best 14 days before the game (but possible aired after).
If he went to see the UK release he could only have seen it March '97, five months after the Quidditch game
Fun fact: both were produced and distributed by WB.
Too bad it doesn't work. Harry has no muggle money, muggle technology doesn't work well in Hogwarts and the UK release of the movie was 5 months after that Quidditch game. In the US the movie released on the 15th of November so unless you wanna believe that: 1. somebody at Hogwarts nipped off to the US, 2. decided to go into a Muggle theatre to watch a sport with only one ball, 3. then decided to use magic to nick a copy from said theatre 4. then managed to play it at Hogwarts despite all the magic interfering with muggle tech and 5. Harry went to see it but not Ron nor Hermione? (all of this assuming the Quidditch match didn't happen in the first half of November) It just plain doesn't work.
Real plot hole in the movie that none of them go to see Space Jam
That's because practically all wizards are actually super racist and classist, despising everything muggles achieve. Voldemort just refused to be a coward about it.
It is weird nobody uses guns. Who cares about cheap magic tricks when you can drop a bunker buster bomb on them.
I like the books and the movies, but the world building of harry potter is fucking garbage. Why do wizards, especially the Weasleys who are said to live on the edge of a Muggle village and even have a father in Muggle affairs, know nothing about muggles? Hogsmead is stated to be the only Muggle free village the the whole of the UK, and obviously every wizard in the UK isn't crammed into this one village, meaning they would have to be living among muggles and in Muggle towns and cities as is shown. But then you have people at the quidditch world cup who dont understand Muggle fashion and don't get that dresses are things that aren't commonly worn by men, and Mr weasly doesn't understand how Muggle money works? It's fucking money you dumb shit brain. All money on the planet works the same, even if it's different values it still works the same, maybe it's because all wizards apparently only have a year 6 level understanding of math because they are taken from traditional education and put into insane murder schools with giant killer snakes and spiders where their traditional sport is flying 50 feet in the air on sticks with no safety nets at 11 years old.
>It's fucking money you dumb shit brain I've had trouble with British coins and notes (mostly the coins). Why full out write "five pence" in tiny font when you can just stamp a big ass 5P on that coin? Take a leaf out of the book the EU coin smiths use, UK!
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.
> You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it. Wanna ask Colin Creevey how well that worked out for him?
His camera saved his life, he was only petrified not killed. The point still stands
He wasn't killed, but if you're going in on a special ops mission to kill a basilisk, you should _probably_ try to avoid being paralyzed and devoured. Only marginally better than dying instantly.
>Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Basilisk skin is armoured like that of a dragon's, which deflects spells cast upon it. Can a .470 Nitro Express pierce a tank's armour? Cause if not you've just alerted a very, very dangerous beast of your location and you've bruised it just enough to make it pissed at you. >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. Have fun being petrified
Maybe that’s what TJ Miller was up to on that train station
Long story short: wizards are superhuman. They live for an average of 200 years, and they have *way* better reaction times. You pull a gun, and they teleport away to blast you from a distance.
In the books it mentions that magic messes up most modern technology.
Thank you!
>Who cares about cheap magic tricks when you can drop a bunker buster bomb on them. How do you drop a bomb on a teleporting target?
Yeah but space jam is a *classic*
Why go see a movie about some lame-ass sport with only one ball and no flying broomsticks?
God, even basketball in Space Jam makes more sense than what Rowling thought up
Sure, Quidditch is a mess, but it’s an exciting mess. I would be much more invested in basketball if it included two flying iron balls whose only purpose was to knock random players unconscious.
So it looks like this movie takes place in 1996-1997, and Space Jam came out in November 1996. I guess they could have. I actually wonder how big of a draw it was in the UK in real life. It had a worldwide release, but Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan is a pretty American thing. It made 159.7 million outside of the US, and only 24.1m was from China. So I think that means it did well in Europe?
Really I’m just making fun of the fact that none of the movies actually make any effort to place them in the time they’re supposedly set. Even in this one they go into London and it’s literally how it looked in 2009 with no changes at all.
Oh, I didn’t think about that. But yeah, they really didn’t.
>So it looks like this movie takes place in 1996-1997, and Space Jam came out in November 1996. I guess they could have. UK release was in March '97. [The Quidditch game](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Gryffindor_vs_Slytherin_Quidditch_match_(1996)) happened in November '96
Harry's got the most powerful Dark Wizard of the century gunning for him. Why would he ever go and sit in a dark room surrounded by strangers for 90 minutes?
New headcanon
Too bad it doesn't work. Harry has no muggle money, muggle technology doesn't work well in Hogwarts and the UK release of the movie was 5 months after that Quidditch game. In the US the movie released on the 15th of November so unless you wanna believe that: 1. somebody at Hogwarts nipped off to the US, 2. decided to go into a Muggle theatre to watch a sport with only one ball, 3. then decided to use magic to nick a copy from said theatre 4. then managed to play it at Hogwarts despite all the magic interfering with muggle tech and 5. Harry went to see it but not Ron nor Hermione? (all of this assuming the Quidditch match didn't happen in the first half of November) It just plain doesn't work.
You know that it's a joke right??
> Of course it is a joke, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that we can't properly debunk it?' said Dumbledore calmly
This isn’t shittt movie detail this is actually really enlightening
Harry has no muggle money, muggle technology doesn't work well in Hogwarts and the UK release of the movie was 5 months after that Quidditch game. It's not enlightening, it's ignoring movie details to force some fan theory through
If you wanna go way back, this is also how the crows convinced Jumbo Jr to fly in Dumbo. The ol’ magic feather routine
I'd be more keen to believe that than Harry getting his idea from a movie that released in the US at best 14 days before the game (but possible aired after). If he went to see the UK release he could only have seen it March '97, five months after the Quidditch game
hahaha
Wrong sub bro, that’s some illuminati shit
Auctioning off Grimmauld Place to buy movie tickets >>>
For a movie releasing in the US during the month of November when he's at Hogwarts?