I guess not a significant chord of the earth, but AK-sniping through huge amounts of intervening material still seems like something that would happen.
Spammable Transfigured Muggle Weaponry:
This could work a LOT of ways. All of these involve breaking McGonagall’s Rules of Transfiguration, but could be made safe for the weapon-user and bystanders using various tricks such as transfiguring (maybe partial transfiguration) them out of very small objects, transfiguring them out of water or other nontoxic substances, or using magical or mundane air protection.
Many of these might merit some way to easily provide transfiguration feedstock to one’s wand. HPEJV might wrap a strip of duct tape around the end of his wand and transfigure tiny parts of it at a time.
It may be possible to transfigure matter in motion or radiation in flight (Fuzzy line!). If so, then hypothetical Harry with a rate of 1 kg/s can generate over 50 petawatts in beam power. (This would probably be fatal.).
Even if not, than Harry might Transfigure very small beam generation units, primed to fire, and let them fall away (or Finite them) as soon as they have fired. For example, one might transfigure a unit consisting of a super-radioactive (half-life in milliseconds) isotope and beam collimation assembly, or a laser rod in the process of firing from pre-charged capacitors. These devices would do their work as they either fall away or are suspended by telekinesis or some kind of frame.
Alternatively, one could simply transfigure Muggle weapons. McGonagall claims that Muggle guns are not too effective against a good wizard, but she probably is talking about normal small arms. Gyrojet (rocket) weapons or ones that work on the recoil-less rifle principle generate no recoil. Harry could transfigure a stripped-down multi-rocket-launcher or heavy Gyrojet machine pistol right into his hand, fire the entire magazine in less than a second, drop it, and transfigure another. I suspect that even Quirrel might have a hard time dealing with the combined effect of curses applied to bullets, the bullets themselves, and any messes of acid or white phosphorus or other horrific things when they come at him thick enough, and Finite would not be fast enough.
I guess not a significant chord of the earth, but AK-sniping through huge amounts of intervening material still seems like something that would happen.
Spammable Transfigured Muggle Weaponry:
This could work a LOT of ways. All of these involve breaking McGonagall’s Rules of Transfiguration, but could be made safe for the weapon-user and bystanders using various tricks such as transfiguring (maybe partial transfiguration) them out of very small objects, transfiguring them out of water or other nontoxic substances, or using magical or mundane air protection.
Many of these might merit some way to easily provide transfiguration feedstock to one’s wand. HPEJV might wrap a strip of duct tape around the end of his wand and transfigure tiny parts of it at a time.
It may be possible to transfigure matter in motion or radiation in flight (Fuzzy line!). If so, then hypothetical Harry with a rate of 1 kg/s can generate over 50 petawatts in beam power. (This would probably be fatal.).
Even if not, than Harry might Transfigure very small beam generation units, primed to fire, and let them fall away (or Finite them) as soon as they have fired. For example, one might transfigure a unit consisting of a super-radioactive (half-life in milliseconds) isotope and beam collimation assembly, or a laser rod in the process of firing from pre-charged capacitors. These devices would do their work as they either fall away or are suspended by telekinesis or some kind of frame.
Alternatively, one could simply transfigure Muggle weapons. McGonagall claims that Muggle guns are not too effective against a good wizard, but she probably is talking about normal small arms. Gyrojet (rocket) weapons or ones that work on the recoil-less rifle principle generate no recoil. Harry could transfigure a stripped-down multi-rocket-launcher or heavy Gyrojet machine pistol right into his hand, fire the entire magazine in less than a second, drop it, and transfigure another. I suspect that even Quirrel might have a hard time dealing with the combined effect of curses applied to bullets, the bullets themselves, and any messes of acid or white phosphorus or other horrific things when they come at him thick enough, and Finite would not be fast enough.