Why lasers are so brilliantly useful

Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:32PM (#25768241)

I have a sketch of a HP fanfic short story I should really flesh out one day. It involves muggles launching an operation to retrieve a key person from Hogwarts just as the final battle with Voldemort is about to erupt there. The story would follow a bunch of SAS soldiers who fly in on helicopters, while covered by a wing of fighter jets that intercept a dragon, and then provide distraction / air support for the good guys. The overall tone was meant to be similar to the start of Gulag mission from Modern Warfare 2[0].

I'm not a good writer, so this will likely end up a military porn story to the tune of Salvation War[1] - so perhaps it's best if it remains unwritten. But really, if you think about it, the Wizarding World wouldn't stand a chance against even single organized operation by a modern muggle state military.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDX5uToKuPY

[1] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSalvati...

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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by zabzonk on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:49PM (#25768388)

Not HP, but see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24997064-the-nightmare-s... which pits elves and dragons against the British military and intelligence services. All books in the Laundry Files, of which this is one, are great reads.

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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:56PM (#25768470)

Oh, 'cstross is still writing Laundry Files? Awesome! I've read up to book 4 or 5, then dropped for reasons I don't remember. Time to read it all from the beginning then; thanks for reminding me.

My favorite little bit of the series so far was how humans eventually figured out what makes Basilisks tick, managed to replicate it on an FPGA, and turned CCTV cameras into defense turrets.

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