Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons

So some bored madman edited Harry Potter to replace every single wand with a gun, and then some.

Warner Bros. has predictably gone berserk, copyright striking the trailer almost as fast as it can be reposted, so for now the only reliable link to the trailer is here.

Well, it’s no John Wick, folks.

That was a lot more amusing than I was expecting. I could definitely see it being traumatic if kids saw it though.

Okay, the oculum repairum scene was pretty good.

He had up the full 2.5 hour movie with the edits too.

Ah yes, what an achievement, having little kids blowing each other away. World needs more of that. Might be funny if it wasn’t something that’s terrifyingly real in in-person school these days.

Directly from the website link above:

Though this project started as a tasteless joke, in the wake of mass shootings and other daily horrors, we have to ask ourselves if Hollywood pushes guns too hard. If gun owners in our society really value guns for their use, or just for their sexiness. There is no doubt a fascination with the firearm, just as there is an interest with war or death or serial killers. It reminds us of our mortality. It should make us respect every moment we have on this Earth and make it a better place for everyone. But I guess we love killing a bunch? And so we’ve glorified it in our media. We’ve made it cool to pull out a gun and empty a clip real quick, or reload in slow-motion. But at the end of the day, sexy or not, a gun is a machine designed to kill. It has one purpose: murder.

In the time it takes you to watch this whole movie, statistical evidence would suggest 9 people in the USA were shot, and 4 of them have/will die.

Suicides account for almost double the amount of homicides by gun, so guns kill roughly 50% of gun owners or their family members.

Access to high-caliber, large magazine capacity, and/or auto and semi-automatic weapons is not really something anyone needs.

VERY roughly paraphrasing VPC.org, - Here are five things you can do right now to help stop gun violence.

  1. Contact your elected representatives and demand that they support and advocate for effective gun violence prevention legislation. Call your U.S. Senators and Representative via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and tell them that you SUPPORT a federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

  2. Engage your friends and internet friends to take a stand against gun violence. Create your very own online fundraiser in just 10 minutes.

gofundme and Mightycause are 2 of the many options.

You can also make an online tax-deductible contribution to the Violence Policy Center.

  1. Join a local gun violence prevention organization. Visit States United to Prevent Gun Violence, the national umbrella organization for state gun violence prevention organizations to find a group in your state.

  2. Write a letter to the editor in your local paper in support of gun violence prevention. Or use social media to support the Violence Policy Center’s efforts to stop gun violence. Visit the Center’s Twitter feed or our Facebook page for tweets and postings detailing the facts about gun violence, as well as effective solutions.

  3. Watch Harry Potter and the Deadly Weapons to see how easy it is to push guns into a Hollywood film. See how riddikulus the notion of guns in schools looks. Understand how magic isn’t real, but gun violence is. The rich could save the world, but they sit on their piles of gold like dragons. God isn’t real, otherwise he’s a real asshole. Murder-machines, built for the sole purpose of killing, are bad for humanity. The only way to change the world, is to try to change it. The world is huge, so the grander butterfly effect starts with the small things. Like making a silly illegal gun version of Harry Potter. And spreading the word that guns kill. It’s pretty evident that they do. Spread the link, or don’t, but DO educate your friends and community about gun violence. And eat your veggies. Take a shower and floss your teeth. Maybe read a book once in a while! Or at lease the AUDIOBOOK! #dontletreadingdie #dontletpeopledie #soapbox #harrypotterwithguns #themovieissometimesbetter #controversial #thebookisusuallybetter

Ah, I didn’t click the link since Zylon mentioned it wasn’t working anyways.

Comes across as a sort of half-assed, oh right, guns are bad bit to me, after spending literally hundreds of hours doing the editing. Good on them for posting the message and links but it still feels like it would take quite a love of guns to spend that much time on this. Just my opinion obviously and clearly other people feel differently.

The main site is working fine (for now). It’s the YouTube trailer links that are getting swatted down.

That trailer was surprisingly enjoyable.

Trailer was hilarious, looks like the full movie is down though.

I have noticed there are mods appearing for several games (Dark Souls and Skyrim to name a couple) where guns have replaced the swords and axes. There are youtubes of the game play. So this may be a trend beyond this HP movie.

Gun mods for games like that aren’t a bother for me. It’s just the visuals of scenes like Hermione pointing a gun at her friend and graphically blowing him away that I could do without. School shootings are too real for me to be ok with it I guess.

I’ve always thought it was pretty weird that in the Wizarding World every kid gets the equivalent of a gun issued to them for school.

They have to buy it themselves, didn’t Harry make a trip to Dagon Alley to buy one?

He was left with a cloak and some gold coins to buy stuff by Godfather. Or maybe a goblin account. No socialism here!

Oh true! I guess the wandmaker lobby is pretty powerful.

Harry had to overcome incredible hardship as a young child. He had to levitate himself by his own bootstraps! He never had to stand in the dole queue, he only needed a small inheritance of a million or so dollars and a few priceless artifacts to make his way in the world.

I’m guessing a Loverslab mod of HP would be illegal.

Nobody tell this guy about Battle Royale.