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May 05, 2011
Handguns for Hogwarts?
By Phil Bourjaily
Although I think about guns a lot, and I read several of the Harry Potter books to my younger son at bedtime, I just never even thought about whether Harry should trade his wand for a pistol. It definitely didn’t occur to me to write down those sentiments in some detail and post them on Facebook for the entire Internet to ridicule.
However, J.K. Rowling has sold 400 million Harry Potter books, so the odds were good that at least one would be read by a gun nut with way too much time on his hands, resulting in a post like this one, which Gun Nuts TV producer Jon Ross spotted and sent to me from Failbook.failblog.org.
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Comments (24)
That would be the first one I have ever seen, I am more of a former Brian Jacques fan.
Professor MacGonagall: What's your assessment of Potions class, Harry?
Dirty Harry Potter: It's a cluster-snog, ma'am...
Professor MacGonagall: Say again?
Dirty Harry Potter: Gryffindors are fighting men. They shouldn't be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for cauldrons they should already have, ma'am.
The question you've got to ask yourself is: "Do I feel magical?"
Well, do ya, Muggle?
Awesome! I'd watch that one!
Good ole' failblog, I can waste almost as much time on there as I can on IMFDB.org
thats pretty good. and add that to some other books too!
There was a little remembered Indie filmmaker named Ralph Bakshi that worked mostly in animated films. One of them was a story about a longstanding feud between two wizard brothers -- one bent on evil and one defending the world. Anyhow, the last scene in the movie occurs after a long and inconclusive magical duel where it looks like the bad guy has just enough juice left to kill the good guy. Then the good wizard says "Here's a little trick that mama taught me while you weren't around!" draws a big revolver, and blows the bad guy away.
Movie is called "Wizards." It's a "cult classic" which means that the animation is weird and mostly bad but it has some interesting experimental art techniques and an interesting plot.
haha I saw that one yesterday. its pretty funny. certainly would have been a different story though...
Harry packing heat!
Coming to a theater near you!
Sounds good to me!
I believe all Harrys should pack heat!
Get off my lawn....or I'll point my wand at you! (nah, doesn't work for me!)
the question is did i fire 5 spells or 6
Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself... haha!
Mike Diehl -- Thanks for reminding me about Wizards. I saw it in college in the 70s.
Welllll, shucky darn and dag nabbit!!!
I just knew this blog would cover proper handgun calibers for stalking feral hogs.
I'm afraid a magic wand won't do you much good. No penetration for chest shots!
Bubba
Phil
You must be very bored is all I can say.
I find this photo to be a nice blend of old and new school Hollywood history..thanks Phil!
Amflyer, great parallel of the Gunny on Heartbrake Ridge-LOL
Guns baby, all the way
Wizzards was a pretty cool movie. but to be honest I liked his "American Pop" better about four generations of the same family involved in the music industry from the turn of the century up to the 80's
I read a lot, but mostly Military History or Clandestine Services history. Very little fiction, usually Tom Clancey,John LeCarre or Tony Hillerman.
I loved Bakshi's 'Wizards'! (By the way, it was a Luger).
I know it would have changed a lot of the plot, but I did wonder why wizards and witches raised by muggles didn't take advantage of the knowledge.
In 'Prisoner of Azkeban', that the Muggle PM was warned, and told the general public that Black had a gun, described as "a sort of metal wand that muggles kill each other with".
But Harry, Hermione, and others were raised in real society, and would know about these things.
Since magical magic can cure almost anything not instantly fatal, you would have to make it a real surprise, though.
Just to prove that I am the biggest dork who reads this blog I will tell you that I have often thought that Harry Potter was one of the best arguments for the 2nd Amendment that I have ever read. Think about it. If every wizard/citizen had not had a personal side arm/wand there would have been no way to resist Voldemort once he had taken over the government. You may all proceed to mock me mercilessly.
KNX:
Man, you have a point. Liberals don't complain when Luke Skywalker or Harry Potter resist evil with all the weapons at their disposal, but let us try to do the same and we are looked down on as violent, racist morons. Don't bother pointing out the logical incongruity to them, however; they won't get it.
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Professor MacGonagall: What's your assessment of Potions class, Harry?
Dirty Harry Potter: It's a cluster-snog, ma'am...
Professor MacGonagall: Say again?
Dirty Harry Potter: Gryffindors are fighting men. They shouldn't be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for cauldrons they should already have, ma'am.
the question is did i fire 5 spells or 6
The question you've got to ask yourself is: "Do I feel magical?"
Well, do ya, Muggle?
Get off my lawn....or I'll point my wand at you! (nah, doesn't work for me!)
Phil
You must be very bored is all I can say.
That would be the first one I have ever seen, I am more of a former Brian Jacques fan.
Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself... haha!
Welllll, shucky darn and dag nabbit!!!
I just knew this blog would cover proper handgun calibers for stalking feral hogs.
I'm afraid a magic wand won't do you much good. No penetration for chest shots!
Bubba
I find this photo to be a nice blend of old and new school Hollywood history..thanks Phil!
Good ole' failblog, I can waste almost as much time on there as I can on IMFDB.org
thats pretty good. and add that to some other books too!
There was a little remembered Indie filmmaker named Ralph Bakshi that worked mostly in animated films. One of them was a story about a longstanding feud between two wizard brothers -- one bent on evil and one defending the world. Anyhow, the last scene in the movie occurs after a long and inconclusive magical duel where it looks like the bad guy has just enough juice left to kill the good guy. Then the good wizard says "Here's a little trick that mama taught me while you weren't around!" draws a big revolver, and blows the bad guy away.
Movie is called "Wizards." It's a "cult classic" which means that the animation is weird and mostly bad but it has some interesting experimental art techniques and an interesting plot.
haha I saw that one yesterday. its pretty funny. certainly would have been a different story though...
Harry packing heat!
Coming to a theater near you!
Sounds good to me!
I believe all Harrys should pack heat!
Mike Diehl -- Thanks for reminding me about Wizards. I saw it in college in the 70s.
Amflyer, great parallel of the Gunny on Heartbrake Ridge-LOL
Guns baby, all the way
Wizzards was a pretty cool movie. but to be honest I liked his "American Pop" better about four generations of the same family involved in the music industry from the turn of the century up to the 80's
I read a lot, but mostly Military History or Clandestine Services history. Very little fiction, usually Tom Clancey,John LeCarre or Tony Hillerman.
I loved Bakshi's 'Wizards'! (By the way, it was a Luger).
I know it would have changed a lot of the plot, but I did wonder why wizards and witches raised by muggles didn't take advantage of the knowledge.
In 'Prisoner of Azkeban', that the Muggle PM was warned, and told the general public that Black had a gun, described as "a sort of metal wand that muggles kill each other with".
But Harry, Hermione, and others were raised in real society, and would know about these things.
Since magical magic can cure almost anything not instantly fatal, you would have to make it a real surprise, though.
Awesome! I'd watch that one!
Just to prove that I am the biggest dork who reads this blog I will tell you that I have often thought that Harry Potter was one of the best arguments for the 2nd Amendment that I have ever read. Think about it. If every wizard/citizen had not had a personal side arm/wand there would have been no way to resist Voldemort once he had taken over the government. You may all proceed to mock me mercilessly.
KNX:
Man, you have a point. Liberals don't complain when Luke Skywalker or Harry Potter resist evil with all the weapons at their disposal, but let us try to do the same and we are looked down on as violent, racist morons. Don't bother pointing out the logical incongruity to them, however; they won't get it.
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