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Me and my brother are having a dispute over how the duels in OoTP occur. If I remember correctly they were dueling with their wands by trying to hit each other with their wands kind of like lightsabers and using various spells. My brother keeps insisting that it was just them throwing spells at each other which seems rather bland and boring to me.

Also this may sound ridiculous and I have a craptacular memory so please forgive me. If I remember correctly the wands are magically elongated right?
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Sorry, dude, your brother's right. The wands aren't magically elongated, it's just throwing spells at each other.
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yeah, sorry... older or younger brother?
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Your brother is right, but think of it as one of those John Woo gun fights.... except with wands instead of guns, also no doves flying anywhere and no one is duel wielding two wands at the same time...you know what just think of it as a regular gun fight.
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I'm the younger. ****. However duel wielding wands would be pretty kick ass.

Actually, I always imagined it as a combination of both. I imagined them sorta sword fighting, but with spells shooting out of the wands at the same time. Them just slashing through the air, with different colored jets of magic shooting out of the tips of the wands.
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Magically elongated wands? Like lightsabers?

Dude what crack are you on? I never could know where you got that idea from. And no, its a stupid thing. If I want to see swordlike duels, I would watch LOTR or Star Wars, not Harry Potter.

Melee fighting has NO place in the HP series (except for the basilisk bit). I swear, if JKR decides to introduce fencing or muggle fighting in book six, I'd storm her house with a sword.
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It's not THAT crazy of an idea:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Page 803
American Hardcover

"Now Sirius and Dolohov were dueling, their wands flashing like swords, sparks flying from their wand tips--"

That's why I imagine them slashing though the air with spells flying out of the tips.

Page 802
"Sirius and his Death Eater lurched past, dueling so fiercely that their wands were blurs."

That means there hasta be more to dueling than just aiming and shooting.

Sidenote:
Page 797

"There were footsteps running along behind the doors; every now and then another heavy body would launch itself against one, so it creaked and shuddered. Luna and Neville were bewitching the doors along the opposite wall-- then, as Harry reached the very top of the room, he heard Luna cry, "Collo--aaaaaaaaargh..."
He turned in time to see her flying though the air. Five Death Eaters were surging into the room through the door she had not reached in time; Luna hit a desk, slid over its surface and onto the floor on the other side where she lay sprawled, as still as Hermione."

That passage makes me so ANGRY! I love Luna, and look what the Death Eaters did to her! She flew through the air, landed on a desk, and then slid off the edge, not moving. This passage gets me every time I read it. I LOVE YOU LUNA!!!
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OMG Teepo, I just had the weirdest image of you at like, a midnight opening of HP, with a big sign that says, "MARRY ME LUNA!!!" XD


Oh, and for the record, Luna is my favorite, too.
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XD XD!!! I wanna do that now! Hahaha, thanks.
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Page 802
"Sirius and his Death Eater lurched past, dueling so fiercely that their wands were blurs."

That means there hasta be more to dueling than just aiming and shooting

Of course there is more!Besides aiming and shooting, they would be ducking and dodging. But spells is all thats used. Surely your idea of a spell duel is not somebody slowly taking his time to aim and shoot, then waiting for the person to cast.

They were used to duelling, and thus had much faster reactions.
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"So this is how liberty dies- to thunderous applause."
- Senator Amidala, on the formation of the Galactic Empire

Well I just hope they don't screw up the duels...

Some, if not all, spells require a wand movement as well (see wingardium leviosa).
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Also, look at the chapter picture for Chapter 36. It looks as if they're actually fighting with their wands instead of only with spells.
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this is so immature but... ^ holy ****... sorry... but why on this board? so random.
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I figured there'd be some close-up fighting, like hitting your opponents wand with your own so their magic goes off course and then you kill them like that.
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A kick in the stones should work......
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