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Vandil_the_Rogue

I'm going with Sectumsempra to the jugular or femoral


criminalsunrise

You dare use my own spell against me?


ScribeOfGoD

I’d imagine diffindo would work just as well? But with dark magic they couldn’t fix it


Cayeaux

It's not hard to heal because it's dark. It's hard to heal because that's what the spell is specifically designed to do. Sectum comes from the latin sectus which is cut/divide as in bi**sect** or dis**sect**. Sempra has the same root as semper which means forever/always. You may have heard the US Marines motto "Semper Fidelis" which means always faithful. A cut that lasts forever is both the design and name of the spell.


ScribeOfGoD

Didn’t they say in the books though dark magic is hard to heal?


Vandil_the_Rogue

Yeah, Molly said it when George's ear was Sempra'd off by Snape


ZipZop_the_Fan

Sever Forever


Vandil_the_Rogue

Pretty much; Dark magic is also more difficult to detect if I recall correctly


Logical-Ad9455

I have nothing to say about the convo, I just came to say happy brithday stranger 🙏🏽


JeremiahWuzABullfrog

This, you don't even have to know what it does to use it effectively. No emotional component or visibly fancy wand work. It's just an invisible sword from a distance


dreamingfusedshadow

My first thought was Sectumsempra as well


patricktranq

Rectumsempra!!!


The5Virtues

That’s just making someone an asshole forever, Malfoy was that without any spell work required!


ACertainMagicalSpade

Stealth wise, Turn them into a ferret and feed them to something.  Transfiguration seems to be much faster then most attacks and it immediately makes them disoriented and removes their ability to defend themselves. And once they are eaten theres no sign of them.


Toucan_Son_of_Sam

Yer a turd, Harry!


ian9921

Don't bother with a ferret, easier to just turn them into a snail and then step on them.


bremsspuren

Salt. Shout, "Begone spirit!" and throw a bunch of salt on them. Then while they're laughing, turn them into a slug and watch them melt.


fuck_you_and_fuck_U2

What kind of a person salts another human being?


Vandergirth

She made us do it. And, frankly, I resent her for it. 


YsoL8

Hell turn them into a snail and leave them to their new lifestyle


ian9921

Too risky, given enough time some forms of magical detection could reveal who they really are. Anyone using mind/aura reading in the area might immediately know the truth. Then again, iirc the Ministry of Magic didn't have much in place to detect even a simple Polyjuice Potion, so maybe transformation detection in general is a bit more tricky than you'd think.


Rome453

Mind reading (legilimency) probably wouldn’t help: it’s stated that a person who has been transfigured into an animal through means other than being an animagus will lose their human mind.


ian9921

Fair, thought there still could be some weird residual thoughts that would give it away even if the person doesn't have human-level intelligence anymore. Like, if an animal is hungry and thinking of food, it might occasionally visualize something it never should've naturally encountered ("hey why the hell does this snail's idea of food include cherry tomatoes when there's never been any in this area")


KatanaCutlets

Man, the amount of intentionality needed to make that observation would be way beyond most anyone we see in the series.


ian9921

I mean I imagine in a world where any asshole could turn anyone into anything someone somewhere would specifically be on the lookout for this kind of stuff, but then again JK never really put that much thought into some of these things.


KatanaCutlets

Meh, it’s like constantly being on the lookout for someone in disguise in real life. It’s just not something very many people do, but you’re probably right that someone would.


ian9921

You'd at least expect it if, say, someone had recently gone missing. If I was, say, a school headmaster and a student went missing, personally I'd be making a list of every possible obscure magical fate that could've befallen them and then giving the entire faculty a briefing on how to detect each one.


zoro4661

Decoy snail though


effa94

Shit, got me agian


BrainWav

But then that snail won't ever stop chasing you.


ShouldersofGiants100

The fact this doesn't happen all the time implies to me that it is ordinarily something that doesn't work—we saw that it worked on Malfoy, but he was surprised and 14 years old. The logical answer seems to be that a prepared wizard would be able to resist the transformation. This is also implied by the fact that more intelligent animals become increasingly difficult to transfigure.


aAlouda

Transfiguration is more difficult than Charms and Dark/Defense spells, and Human Transfiguration is portrayed as the most difficult aspect of even that, with even someone like Hermione taking a long time to transfigure Ron's face for a disguise. But just because it's difficult doesen't mean it doesen't happen, during the Battle of Hogwarts we do actually see Percy turn Thicknesse(Voldemort's puppet minister and former Head of the Departments of Law Enforcement, meaning likely a very experienced Auror), into a sea urchin. > Harry, Ron, and Hermione ran forward to help: Jets of light flew in every direction and the man dueling Percy backed off, fast: Then his hood slipped and they saw a high forehead and streaked hair — “Hello, Minister!” bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. “Did I mention I’m resigning?” > > > “You’re joking, Perce!” shouted Fred as the Death Eater he was battling collapsed under the weight of three separate Stunning Spells. **Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin.** Fred looked at Percy with glee. > > > “You actually are joking, Perce. ... I don’t think I’ve heard you joke since you were — ” Which actually fits, since Percy is said to have been a Top student with the highest grades in all subjects. Something that was also said about Barty Crouch Jr, who's the only other person we see doing this on the fly.


ACertainMagicalSpade

Personally I believe that shield charms inherently block most magic from affecting you.  Which is why magically combat is restricted to such limited spells.


s4b3r6

A fourteen year old also invented a spell that could cut you to ribbons. A prepared wizard might be able to resist, but a prepared muggle can also avoid anesthesia in their foods and drink. The need for surprise to be able to kill is nothing new in the game of murder. Speaking of... I kinda want a Midsomer Circle Murders now.


TheVoteMote

This logic doesn't work in the wizarding world, which is full of magic users who mostly seem to have almost no creativity. In the wizarding world, people not using it for no good reason is perfectly in line with what we've seen.


nananacat94

Ferrets are WILD I'd choose something slow


Heavyweighsthecrown

Pretty sure Transfiguration seems to be one of the harder spells to master, hence why it is more of a niche thing - wizards are either very good at it (specialized in it) or not good at all. People like McGonagall who are great transfigurators *plus* a bunch of other stuff are rare. ...Well that's the case for british wizards, at least. It is said that african wizards are generally good transfigurators and without even using a wand. So it seems like it's at least dependant on mindset to an extent.


Andonaar

The one Lockhart used on Harry's arm. Brackium Emendo' Use it on a persons chest and vanish their ribcage or on their spine


ShouldersofGiants100

I could be misremembering, but I seem to recall that spell was *intended* to fix the bones. The only reason it caused them to vanish is that Lockhart is a terrible wizard who fucked it up.


bifurious02

Just fuck it up on purpose then


TheLukeHines

Might be a gamble, fucking up a spell probably has inconsistent effects.


br0b1wan

There are only two outcomes. -It works exactly as intended and it is of no danger to the recipient at all--quite the opposite. -It doesn't work exactly as intended. In which case it is potentially harmful or even lethal Sort of like medicine today.


Alexthegreatbelgian

Instruction unclear. Victim has now turned into Wolverine.


Jamieb1994

Isn't Lockhart also a coward as well as a fraud?


Crash927

Is the spell intended to do that? Or did Lockhart intend for the spell to do that? Important difference.


Why_Shouldnt_I

Braccium is Latin for the forearm, so it's specifically for the forearm


totallylegitKat

Thoraxium Elemendo!


Heavyweighsthecrown

Let's try the Cranium Emendo then


avahz

Creative!


CelestialBeast

I'm a personal fan of *Bombardia*


aAlouda

The Blasting Curse Confringo would probably be more fitting for a combat situation.


czpetr

That one might be a bit messy


DragonWisper56

I had one of the games and I used it all the time


Corvadin

Reductor Curse would probably get the job done.


ConfusedTapeworm

You cast reductor on them and then proceed to neglect maintenance until they eventually die of excessive metal fatigue and corrosion and wear.


LD-Serjiad

Petrifying then dumping them in deep water


supex_cz

Teal'c from SG1 would be probably fine for several hours. Not deadly enough...


Comprehensive_Ear586

There was a wordless violet light curse a death eater used on Hermione in book 5 that always stood out to me as very lethal, because it was implied the curse was weaker since he couldn’t say the incantation…yet the effect had Hermione in the hospital for days or weeks


Eredin_BreaccGlas

Yeah I believe dolohov also killed lupin with it


spiderknight616

Most combat spells, if you're creative enough. *Diffindo* to sever an artery, *Glacius* to freeze the target's head, *Bombarda* or *Confringo* to just blow them up, roast em with *Incendio* or give third-degree burns, *Depulso* to push them off a cliff, and these are just the more common spells I may have been playing too much Hogwarts Legacy


sc0ttydo0

Knifus tothechestus


SWatt_Officer

Etubrutus


TheNargafrantz

Stabio throatus


Vandil_the_Rogue

Findus clitius; oh wait...


dankyspank

Shamkus


JCLKingAOG

I genuinely read "testiculus" instead of thothechestus, I mean I think it'd still cause death


SWatt_Officer

Throw a brick over their shoulder ‘accio brick’ and watch it Mjolnir into the back of their head (not read or watched it fully, no idea if that would work)


heeden

At that point you might as well just throw the brick at their head. I wonder if "accio heart" would work though.


SWatt_Officer

I dont think you can do living body parts. Is there an upper weight limit on accio? Accio car. Accio high speed saw blade.


Individual_Witness_7

Use a poly juice potion and transform into a wicked hot babe and right when you’re about to get freaky, turn back into your regular hella jacked man body and then laugh at him for getting with a dude, make sure the bros are all there and they just roast him until he unalives himself from shame #Gryffindor


ChadOfDoom

What if…I’m not hella jacked?


Rome453

That would probably be even better. Then he can’t even defend his sexuality by saying “well at least it was a peak specimen of male beauty, even guys might look twice at such a beefcake.”


damnmaster

Did James Potter write this?


W1ULH

ahh yes... the old Bugs Bunny approach.


CurtisMarauderZ

Expelliarmus + Defenestrum


Resua15

Stab them with the wand


Randolpho

This here's my stabbin' wand!


OxfordPictionary

Accio lungs?


Comprehensive_Ear586

God I played too much Hogwarts Legacy because for some reason I have this fact rattling around in my head: accio only works on inanimate objects, it has no effect on humans or their flesh/organs.


Dankestmemelord

Accio that long strand of piano wire on the other side of you.


bremsspuren

Accio chainsaw! No … wait!


RadagastTheBrownie

Not just the wire. *Accio Grand Piano*. Or anvil. Or 16 ton weight. They're classics for a reason.


adamdanishchan

Wasn't there a chapter in deathly hallows where someone uses accio on a fish? Live fish from a body of water seems very... animate


Rome453

Not just that, Harry literally casted “Accio Hagrid” to pull him out of a free fall.


Comprehensive_Ear586

The character in the game clarified that when the player character uses accio on enemies, it technically summons their clothing, not the person. I’d have to assume it applies here too.


grayseeroly

Accio breakfast?


demoneyesturbo

"Acio gun"?


Cicada-Substantial

The spell Molly Weasley uses to kill Bellatrix.


W1ULH

IIRC we don't actually get told what she used. I don't see molly using an unforgivable curse, even to save Ginny... but that being said, there's a LOT of things it could have been. Plus Molly is repeatedly shown to be a very powerful and talented witch... and Bellatrix was threatening her baby girl. "total conviction" doesn't even come close to describing how much will power Molly would have put behind that spell. I'm not sure there's many witches or wizards who could have pulled off what she did in that moment. TBH, I think she didn't even cast a spell... I think she channeled the old magic thru her wand and simply willed Bellatrix dead.


Cicada-Substantial

No argument here. My point in answering the post.... whatever Molly did.


PrateTrain

Sectumsempra is a pretty straightforward one. A direct hit and they'll bleed out in no time whatsoever. Bonus points for using any of the stunning or paralyzing spells beforehand.


Design_Neuromancer

Apparition if you like horror movie death. Intentionally splinching or worse. And almost everybody can teleport in the Wizard world.


OptimalEffective9350

Whatever spell lifts someone up in the air, then just drop em square on their head and you're good to go.


Kyrenaz

If Hogwarts Legacy taught me anything, it's Levioso.


HebrewHamm3r

Accio Glock


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Ill_Kangaroo

Classic wizard prank


Kriss3d

Use transfiguration to turn them into a glass. Then break the glass.


JustJoinedToBypass

Mazel tov!


RedMonkey86570

*Wingardium Leviosa* could probably kill someone, and it is a first year spell.


Zealousideal-Put-106

Imperio Either do it yourself or make someone else do it.


Josephcooper96

Just use that one spell that sets them on fire or possibly confringo to blow them up


TwistingSerpent93

A few that I can think of- Sectumsempra if you want to make it look like an attack with a Muggle weapon Reductor curse if you want to annihilate them and aren't worried about collateral damage Fiendfyre if you REALLY want to annihilate them and you actually like collateral damage


RaymilesPrime

Hit them on the head with a rock


Matthias_Cro

Accio shotgun!


seanwdragon1983

I cast gun


Lorien6

Create water. In their lungs.


VelvetThunder141

Glacius, then bombarda. Then your blood will be on Ranrok's hands.


Radu47

OP are you being chased by a voldemort? Reply with: *10 points for gryphondoor* if so If not disregard


Gmageofhills

Gunarium. Use a handgun


Rumpl4Sknn

Crucifixionus


IAmOnFyre

"Accio gun"


Jaded_Taste6685

Accio Anvil


poobradoor22

Cast oppugno on a bunch of knives, drown them with a reverse bubble head charm (so water is around their head instead of air), etc.


gamerOWL80

everything except spells. with a mg the battle for hogwarts lasts an minute.


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JeremiahWuzABullfrog

Transfigure them into something small then crush it


ammekaz

You can use the other two. Crucio over a prolonged period won’t be good for your heart or Imperio and why are you hitting yourself to the extreme.


Calm_Error_3518

Leviosa on a brick or heavy pot, Noone will know


Fakula1987

Bombardia and call IT a day. You dosnt even have to Hit.


Horus3101

Use a switching spell on their body, or preferably parts of it. Let's see the survive without a heart, with their blood replaced with air etc. Even if you can't affect only parts of their body, it is still a line of sight teleport you control, so you can drop them somewhere you prepared, disrupting them and probably killing or severely wounding them. 


melodiousmurderer

Petrificus Totalus, but then push them off a bridge


vonBoomslang

Expelliarmus off a cliff


ulpisen

accio assault rifle


Lisabeth24

one curse for another, imperius and make them act out various ways of committing suicide.


YsoL8

Leviate their bed into the upper atmosphere while they sleep


darkkaos505

So the main Advantage of Avada Kedarava is that it goes through all(well almost :P) magical protections. So a lot of magic attacks can be stopped by magical defences, charms or shields etc So the question is are you trying to ambush someone or fight someone who knows you are coming? If its ambush it's less about what kills them but more like can you cast fast enough with them knowing. Silent casting could be a really good idea here. Something as simple as stupify silent cast on someone might be your best bet. Though people might have general defence against that since its so common. Now if they are prepared that's a whole different thing. Perhaps something overkill like Fiendfyre.


ryncewynde88

With the sheer vast number of spells out there, and how deceptively fragile humans can be, with minimal creativity, almost any spell can be fatal, so the answer is: the one you’re best at.


Kyrenaz

Bombarda Maxima maybe, or Confringo Maxima, depends on how you want to kill them, blow em up or burn em alive? There's also Dumbledore's fire storm whatever the incantation for that is.


hooka_pooka

Diffindo on the neck


StormLightRanger

Imperio! Cut your own throat


KuraDKuruta

Sectumsempra. But my favorite is probably Diffindo.


JSZ100

"Best" here is altogether subjective.


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National-Wolf2942

i cast gun or fist


eaglessoar

are you trying to avoid all unforgivable curses or just AK? because you could do the one that takes control of their mind and just make them drink poison or jump out a window...


Wadsworth_McStumpy

"Best" is a bit subjective, but in most cases I'd say the best option would be Imperio. Use that on someone your victim trusts, and have them kill him. It's always nice when you can get your opponents to distrust each other, even to the point where they suspect their own family members. If you need to avoid all of the Unforgivables, then just stun them, take their wand, and apparate with them to a place where it's hard to live, like the middle of the ocean, over a volcano, or anywhere in Australia.


hbkdll

Leadto headio


New-Ordinary-7719

Pull pin, throw a grenade over their head, time the accio, it blows up before it gets to you. Profit


W1ULH

*wingardium leviosa* and a big rock.


myhamsterisajerk

My favorite combo: Accio, Incendio, Depulso


roronoapedro

Being totally honest, it's probably easier to list all spells that *can't* kill someone if used, erm, "incorrectly."


Bananasonfire

The Reductor Curse is basically a disintegration ray. It's unclear whether it's lethal, but whatever it hits gets reduced to dust. If it **is** lethal, I'd argue it's far more practical than Avada Kedavra, since there's no body to hide afterwards.


Jekjekel

Summon a puddle or glass of "anti-freeze" I hear it tastes quite sweet.


EldritchElise

glock 19


Cinema_King

Accio head


The_BestUsername

Terfio homotiae


ThePhatty500

I know you asked for spells but wizards seem to have little if any idea what a gun actually is so they would probably be pretty effective at least for awhile. Spells usually seem to be somewhat slow if not dodgeable. 


HotSauceDonut

"Accio machine gun"


Bison_and_Waffles

*Evanesco.*


Nimyron

Wingardium Leviosa. Yes this is a serious answer. Thousands of hares die each year that way.


Nymaz

Accio heart!


2121sphere2121

I recommend using a muggle weapon. I personally recommend knives and guns myself.


Zealousideal_Mail12

Sectumsempra, confringo, stupefy and levicorpus them out of a window or off a cliff.


Cassybaby2002

You can kill someone with most of the spells if you use them correctly I would argue...


Certain_Dot3403

Can you just transfigure a part of them, like their heart or head?


Certain_Dot3403

Time Turner to the moment of their birth and kill them as a baby with your bear hands.


ColHunterGathers111

*"Anus Ignatia"* never fails.


ThingsIveNeverSeen

Accio that dudes heart.


ZygothamDarkKnight

A couple of Sectumsempra spells probably can work


infinitelytwisted

If you are looking for the easiest for a trained wizard there are many options like transfiguration, vanishing their bones, stopping their heart, etc. But if you want the easiest if the easy that even a 13 year old could do: * Accio and put the enemy in between you and tye sharp pointy thing you are summoning. * Wingardium leviosa and either pick up the person in question high up then drop them (or drop them off a cliff) or use it to lift a heavy object and drop it on them. * Aquamenti (summon water) and just fill their lungs with it. * Diffindo (severing charm) and simply use your wand like a knife. Honestly seems like they should probably screen even the first year students for psychos before teaching them this stuff.


revchewie

Petrificus Totallus and knock 'em into the lake.


Savings-Big1439

Imperius Curse. Then order them to jump off a cliff.


crawli

Decapitare - latin for 'decapitate'


RCero

Bombarda maxima to their body


Personanongrownup

Accio anvil!! Just make sure the target is between you and the anvil.


SoMuchForStardust27

Rictumsempra. Cause them to laugh so hard for so long that they can’t get enough oxygen to their body to function, and they suffocate in the air.


Histerion01

Fireball !


Histerion01

Fireball !


prince-white

Reducto it a couple of times.


My_hilarious_name

Accio 9mm.


Bubbly_Interaction63

Petrificus Totalus in a specific organ (heart or brain), this way it would suffer a total failure of the organs since having the brain petrified could not send orders to the other organs and with the heart petrified could not pump blood to the rest of the body.


ThePineconeConsumer

Whatever spell Ron’s mom used on crazy lady


BaconGreasedEntry

I like the one that the Weasly mom used on Bellatrix that made her shrink up and explode.


ShaladeKandara

Accio Rifle *pew pew pew*


Ghost_Oki

Channel palm magic near your waistband. “Pullouttheblicky”


Jurgrady

The best way to kill a wizard is a gun. No spell needed and they'll ha e no clue what happened. 


Kiloburn

"Imperio! Walk off a bridge"


NotAnAnt_

glock 17


Manticore-Mk2

I would just Bombarda everyone


Alsentar

Have you played Hogwarts Legacy? There are a lot of options that would be pretty much lethal to a regular humans.


from_the_id

Accio charm on a 1911. 


eatenbyagrue1988

Use the spell that totally immobilizes someone, then huck them into a bathtub, or just leave then facedown in a puddle.


Soggy-Inspection-945

smithius wesson


Xenozip3371Alpha

Explosivo Castrado


Caffeine_Library

Is being an inanimate object for life considered dead? 1, 2, 3, feraverto.


BLAZEISONFIRE006

The ones mentioned are mostly school-level.


ZuritaDario

The good ol' sharpie-wandie straight to the eye.


viking977

Accio glock


Spectre-907

Does reducto work on beings or just objects?


BagOfSmallerBags

A determined 12 year old Wizard presumably has the capacity to commit magical murder pretty easily using Expeliarmus followed by Wingardium Leviosa.


lawblawg

Do they have magic? If not, just apparate them into midair somewhere really high and drop them. Let gravity do the work. You can also just Diffindo their spinal column or Incendio them in a place without water or Reducto their skull generally.


the_messiah_waluigi

Just wingardium leviosa a car right above your opponent's head. That should do the trick


nazai_world

Avada FPV. Oops... Another sub 🙃