So you decided to go to war with Wizards

[DEAD34345]

Who needs an army?

Give a couple of guys a gun with lots of ammo, and make sure their mothers' love them. That way they can just go around shooting wizards while being immune to spells. They'll even get a couple of cool-looking scars out of it.

*Edit* Wait... the mothers may have to be murdered for the power of love to work. I forget some of the specifics.

Yeah, their mothers would have to be dead. Or course, you could just kill their mothers, and tell them that the wizards killed them. Then they would be invincible, and revenge-fueled!

Actually, that's still not how it works. So you'd need a whole different strategy.

That's how it works in my memory of the book. Harry survives the ultimate death spell thing because the power of his mother's love protects him... (presumably the dad didn't give enough of a crap).

I admit it was a long time ago I read the books, but it was definitely something along those lines...

 

[floppylobster]

I'll side with the Wizards. And I'll do whatever Selena Gomez tells me.

 

[Apollo45]

Goku.

Because the ability to turn a rabbit in to a teacup is insignificant when compared to the power of the Super Saiyan.

Also, reference this spectacular comic by Pete Abrams:
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080425

 

[dvd_72]

-snip-

I sneak up on the wizard and beat him to death with his own skull.

That doesn't seem physically possible...

That's exactly what he'll be screaming.

 

[ChocoFace]

I sneak up on the wizard and beat him to death with his own skull.

...Or just let them fight it out and reward the winner with a cap to the skull.

where's that first phrase from? i know i've seen it somewhere.

OT:Ninjas.
cant kill what you can't see, right?

And if they do see a ninja, then that's not a real ninja at all and deserves to die anyway.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Have decided? HA! I'm already at war with Wizards. I've been pissed at them since they stopped supporting 3.5 in favor of that massive pile of shit that is 4e.

Oh, wait, THOSE kinds of wizards. Gotcha.

Anyway, I use an Evangelion. Preferably Unit 01.

 

[the spud]

I sneak up on the wizard and beat him to death with his own skull.

...Or just let them fight it out and reward the winner with a cap to the skull.

where's that first phrase from? i know i've seen it somewhere.

.

It's from red vs. blue, one of the earlier episodes.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

1:Gandalf...he's real, right?
2:A genetically engineered army of Captain Americas...without the whole America thing.
3:Optimus Prime
4:Rambo
5:This guy...

 

[Kingdom Spleens]

It's amazing how people with no knowledge of magic in Harry Potter think they stand a chance with any non-magical offensive. Where are you sending your trained killers? Wizards don't live in some wizard country, they live everywhere, and you have no way of differentiating wizard from muggle. Hogwarts is unplottable and to a muggle appears as an empty, ruined castle. The Ministry? Under London. You can't get in. Try brute force and you'll just end up in the underground. They use dimensional and psychological enchantments that have been in place for ages.

Correcting rampant misconceptions and reminding of various powers: They can use wandless magic, they can use wordless magic, they can kill without avada kedavra, they can rewrite your memory, turn your guns against you, transfigure every bullet you have into cotton balls before you know they have apparated in your midst.

Keep singing the praises of human military when up against wizards, it makes me laugh. Try coming up with something more impressive than nuking random cities, suburbs, and fields in the hopes of killing wizards that can disapparate in a moment. I could honestly go on and on explaining why we would be completely at their mercy, but I've probably already written more than most of you will be willing to read.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

If I am limited to things that are real, I choose the army. However, I would have a high enough position in the army to advise them to use lots and lots of tear gas and/or flashbangs. For myself, I would wield a barrett .50 for range and an AA12 for the closer-up bits. As far as magical strongholds like hogwarts goes, a telephone pole-sized rod of tungsten dropped from orbit has all the ouch of a nuke with none of the annoying radiation left over.

If we are allowed things from fiction, I'd take the Hyperion from Starcraft 2, then get a mage from some series or another to magic proof it (and and everything inside). Not only would we have Jim Raynor on our side, We'd have magic proof siege tanks, terran marine armor for the standard troops, ever invisible specters, etc.

 

[bird of hermes]

Spoiler

Send Kharn after them. Khorne's favor renders him immune to psychic powers and since in the 40k universe psychic seems to be the same as magic, I think Kharn's well off.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

Who needs an army?

Give a couple of guys a gun with lots of ammo, and make sure their mothers' love them. That way they can just go around shooting wizards while being immune to spells. They'll even get a couple of cool-looking scars out of it.

*Edit* Wait... the mothers may have to be murdered for the power of love to work. I forget some of the specifics.

Yeah, their mothers would have to be dead. Or course, you could just kill their mothers, and tell them that the wizards killed them. Then they would be invincible, and revenge-fueled!

Actually, that's still not how it works. So you'd need a whole different strategy.

That's how it works in my memory of the book. Harry survives the ultimate death spell thing because the power of his mother's love protects him... (presumably the dad didn't give enough of a crap).

I admit it was a long time ago I read the books, but it was definitely something along those lines...

Well, yeah, that's true... but his whole invincibility thing only worked against Voldemort. The way it worked was

Spoiler: Really long explanation.

when Voldemort tried to kill Harry, his mother's love kept him from dying and caused the Killing Curse to rebound on Voldy. This, combined with the act of evil that was attempted murder of a baby, caused Voldy's already-unstable soul to fracture again, turning Harry into a Horcrux.
When, in Goblet of Fire, Voldemort used Harry's blood in his resurrection, he unwittingly made Harry's mother's "power of love" spell part of himself. So, there was a part of Voldemort in Harry, and vice versa. This combination of magic-ness made it so that Harry couldn't be killed by Voldemort as long as Voldemort remained alive himself. And again, vice-versa (due to the Horcrux).
Basically, because of all the weird circumstances, Voldemort couldn't kill Harry. Not permanently, anyway. And ironically, he kept on insisting that he be the one to do it, when any one of his lackeys had no super-special mojo on them, and could have killed Harry.

If that was confusing, then you're not alone. What you should take away from that, though, is that you are only invincible against the person who killed your mom, and no one else.

 

[DuskServent]

It's amazing how people with no knowledge of magic in Harry Potter think they stand a chance with any non-magical offensive. Where are you sending your trained killers? Wizards don't live in some wizard country, they live everywhere, and you have no way of differentiating wizard from muggle. Hogwarts is unplottable and to a muggle appears as an empty, ruined castle. The Ministry? Under London. You can't get in. Try brute force and you'll just end up in the underground. They use dimensional and psychological enchantments that have been in place for ages.

Correcting rampant misconceptions and reminding of various powers: They can use wandless magic, they can use wordless magic, they can kill without avada kedavra, they can rewrite your memory, turn your guns against you, transfigure every bullet you have into cotton balls before you know they have apparated in your midst.

Keep singing the praises of human military when up against wizards, it makes me laugh. Try coming up with something more impressive than nuking random cities, suburbs, and fields in the hopes of killing wizards that can disapparate in a moment. I could honestly go on and on explaining why we would be completely at their mercy, but I've probably already written more than most of you will be willing to read.

Remember, I said anything at you disposal/imagination.
You can use anything you could think of. Also, can a wizard deflect a beam that is the size of a minivan? Unless someone pulls off a GGG sized protector shade, then I think I stand a chance against a number of small people from inside a Real/Super Robot.
Also, another thing to consider about robots, usually if they are powered by something thats not from this planet, then they should be able to negate the "muggle electronics don't work around magic" rule.
Also, if a robot has this:

Then anything is doomed.

So yeah, anything has a chance against wizards, there are probably squibs, half bloods, and muggle borns who probably hate how they are treated or just don't like being in the wizarding world all together, when war comes, you can guess which side they will be on and basically take out the wizards with the combined forces of anything and everything...

...What was I ranting about again?
...Either way, something something Trombe, something something alternate universe, something blah rape arado...
...I think?

 

[UTclass2015]

I think I'd probably go with some sort of super wand? I'd call it the Elder wand or something like that..

 

[kebab4you]

buy myself one of Dr.Insano's anti magic field generator kit, they will never be able to touch me!

 

[dancinginfernal]

Shoot them. With bullets.

FIGHT HARDER, YOU FUCKS!

I'm a wizard, and that looks fucked up.

 

[wizard_joe88]

*looks at username*
Uhhhh, what if we are a wizard? Just hope the crazy non-wizards don't kill me with all the crazy stuff they have now?

 

[Sacman]

Ralph Bakshi has taught me that there is only one way to defeat a Wizard...

 

[Rumbler_Man]

I think the choice is obvious.
ZERG RUSH BABY!
lets see harry potter take on a few thousand zerg.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

I'd be an asshole and just airstrike the shit out of them. Start it with a bang and flatten them with B2 stealth bombers before they even know to put up their forcefields. Follow that with a massive series of napalm strikes over their forest and any other flammable areas. Then one last reign of death with multiple AC-130 gunships, and call in the Green Berets, an Abrams tank, and an Apache attack chopper to mop up any stragglers.