I hate harry potter so much it’s an entire book series about magic but it’s like JK never even thought about how magic actually works.
At one point ron just kind of wiggles his wrist and says some rhyming words that he very clearly made up himself, causing a spell to misfire and turn his rat into a furry goblet.
What determines a valid spell? Is the wrist movement important or is it just sort of aiming? If I point a wand at a rat and say some death grips lyrics, what happens? What about doing the same thing but it’s a couplet from hamlet? Is there a difference? How so?
What are the limits? Like, young wizards are clearly able to do magic accidentally, so what if a wizard freestyles in just the wrong way and drops just the wrong bars to accidentally cast Spell of Turn the Entire Atmosphere Into Fudge or whatever.
How small can I make the sentient pictures? If they can react to stimulus, can I make a turing machine out of them? Hell if you could get them small enough you could print a functioning sega genesis on a piece of A4 paper.
Is there a spell that lets you turn someone into a ferret but it’s permeant? They were teaching that shit to really young kids. You know every year one of them accidentally turns their pet rat inside out like a tube sock so that’s absolutely happened to people right? If so it should probably be up there with the three super fucked up spells. Actually, even normal transmogrification is a pretty serious breach of bodily autonomy. If someone turns you into a ferret, how aware are you? What if I transmogrified a person into like, coral or a slime mold? Wouldn’t that fuck up their brain or at least be extremely traumatic?
I’m trying to cast spell of repair my gamecube controller and accidentally invented spell of reunite greater Albania
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