flabberghaster wrote
Those unforgivable curses were so funny to me. There's so many ways you can kill someone with a magic wand, you can just set them on fire or make their head disappear or something; the torture one too: You can inflict pain in so many ways with a wand, why did they make three specific spells totally illegal? The mind control one is the only one I don't think you can otherwise do in a million other ways.
twovests OP wrote
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Dogmantra wrote
idk I feel like this is one of those unintentionally neat bits of worldbuilding that sometimes crop up in harry potter, reminds me a bit of the moral panic over ninjas that led Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being censored in the UK (swapping Ninja for "Hero") and the laws that still specifically call out things like samurai swords and nunchucks. I can totally imagine in the world of harry potter some gang or something terrorising everyone with those three specific spells and the government going right well you can't use those spells then, problem solved.
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