Sectumsempra is pretty good at killing unless specifically healed, but that's pretty extreme. I could probably kill someone by Petrificus Totalus-ing them into a lake. I would imagine Accio books could be quite painful to a target standing in the way. Could do Accio knives for a rather more dead...

Avada Kedavra < ICBM I know Voldemort despises mudbloods and muggles but even he couldn't deny the brutality of muggle weapons. An intelligent and dark mind such as his must have been drawn to and must have appreciated the sheer lethal efficiency of muggle technology. Burned a few tents Voldy? ...

Back in 2013, when promoting the then-upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past movie, the commercial team released a trailer for a "mutant conspiracy" around JFK's assassination. They followed up with a full-fledged article entitled "The Bent Bullet Report", which na...

I tried to ask this on Science Fiction but it was off-topic. I remember, in kindergarten to first grade (late 2000s or early 2010s), reading a kids' comic book from the public library. I think it featured some sort of mad scientist who somehow taught scientific things. He looked like Einstein w...

If you look closely there are four hands. It looks like the actor was sitting on the lap of the pilot. The pilot's left hand, which is not seen in the screen shot, is to the right, just a few seconds before the shot was taken it is clearly visible. I saw it on the director's cut.

Post notices are short text boxes that are attached to posts in order to annotate some exceptional situation. They allow ♦ moderators or bounty donors to let other users know something about the post outside of the normal channels of edits, votes, comments and answers. Notifications are not i...

When Stack Exchange announced the recent design updates (with the left sidebar) to the SE websites, users immediately complained about how SE is going to abolish per-site customized voting button. SE claimed that those per-site customizations that so many people enjoy take too much time to maint...

Hat for having created missing tag wikis I don't know about every site on the network, but missing tag wikis can be a pain. And generally speaking, it's better to at least have a description and basic guidance than absolutely nothing. So, I propose a hat for creating a couple of tag wikis (both...

Over on Science Fiction and Fantasy, there are a lot of tags without excerpts. Almost 260 of them, in fact. I try to add some once in a while, but there are so many that I'll never make a dent in the pile of them. I think that the reputation given for editing these wikis should be increase from +...

I see that people born to parents who are both magical are pure-bloods, if either of the parental sides is muggle they are half-bloods, and if both the parents are muggles, the child is muggle-born. But what is the blood status of the child born to a half-blood and a pure-blood? Since there are ...

I was checking on something in the Harry Potter wiki and saw Harry listed as "Half-Blood." Both his parents were magical, but, as we know, his grandparents on his Mother's side were muggles. This reminds me of the racially loaded terms like octoroon. (In the south, you still hear those terms e...

This is a novel I read in 2015. It was an older book. The cover was black and hardcover. Don't remember any specific details. The book was in English. It was set in the future where the world is united as one. I'll try to outline all the major events that I remember, in as much detail as poss...

This seems fairly similar to Tom Godwin's Space Prison. 1 - The evil captain would be evil enslaving alien captain, 2 - they gain strength from the planet's harshness, not from a specific plant (yet powerful they remain), 3 - they lure the evil aliens back, take over their ship, then world (then...

I remember reading a novella or novel about a group of colonists deliberately stranded on an alien planet. There are almost no resources on the planet but they survive by eating a native plant from which they gain a superpower. When the ship returns they use the superpower to capture the ship and...

I remember reading a book a very long time ago, when I was too young to fully understand it. It must’ve been anywhere from 2008-2012. The book was written in English, I found it in a library in Ohio. It seemed relatively new at the time, but designed to look old and discovered. I must imagine the...

I can't prove this with any data, but perhaps it is a valid theory: Imagine the following conversation: Bob: I'm having such problems with my bicycle lately. Susan: You know there's a great site where you can ask questions about bicycles and receive good answers. Bob: Really? What'...

A longstanding issue with suggested edits is that there is a minimum requirement of at least six characters. Very often there are just a couple of typos, spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, etc. that do not reach the six character threshold. It seems to me that the primary objection to allowing...

I read this novel in 2016 in school. The target audience was probably 8-12 years old. It was in hardcover and seemed new. The cover had a dark background with blue writing or drawings. The story was about two kids, one who lived above water and one who lived in an underwater city. The book took ...

I think this may have been featured on Escape Pod or The Drabblecast. Main plot of the story that I remember is that someone figures out how to go faster than the speed of light, but because when you get closer to the speed of light your mass increases, their mass increases to infinity after goi...