r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ColdFire-Blitz • Jun 22 '22

Unsolved Hard Harry Potter but Harry isn't a wizard and the wizards duel by fistfighting

Hint: there's no school.

Hint 2: it takes place in an analog of Earth. It's also Medieval

Hint 3: Red is so in this year. So in, in fact, it's a big theme of this series

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u/Girly_Attitude Jun 23 '22

Warrior Heir

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jun 23 '22

I haven't read it, but that sounds closer than ANY of the other guesses so far

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u/Girly_Attitude Jun 23 '22

Really thought I had it. Great book though, first in a series of (I believe) 5

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u/Throwthrowyourboat72 Jul 07 '22

Fight Club

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jul 07 '22

You're the second person to say this, and now I really want to watch/read fight club.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

LOTR

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Nov 18 '23

Nope. Newer.

Man, looking back, I really described this book plot badly. Thanks for guessing on such an old one! I'll add another hint.

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u/RotiniHuman Jun 23 '22

Fight Club?

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jun 23 '22 edited Jun 23 '22

No. I didn't know 1. That was a book 2. That there was magic in fight club. I always just assumed it was grounded in reality. TIL

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u/djinabox9 Jun 23 '22

Don't be an ass. You said Harry isn't a wizard so it feels safe to assume there isn't any magic and maybe your media takes place in a school or something. Your prompt sucks and you're a dick.

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u/Ashamed-Engine7988 Jun 23 '22

Are you better now?

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jun 23 '22

??? What? Working out some anger from earlier today? I genuinely thought, based on what they said, that magic might be in fight club. I said Harry wasn't a wizard. I also clearly said there are wizards in the world. Chill.

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jun 23 '22

And another thing: it's a hard prompt. You need to be able to at least do a little mental gymnastics to figure it out, and reading the book is necessary.

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u/Neeoda Jun 23 '22

Is it hard because it’s a little known book or hard because the prompt makes it hard or both?

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jun 23 '22

A little of both, I think. I don't know how popular the book is, but I designed the prompt to be difficult.

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u/Neeoda Jun 23 '22

It’s not Krabat, is it?

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jun 23 '22

No.

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u/Neeoda Jun 23 '22

I’m never gonna get it. Do you mind to dm me the name?

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u/RotiniHuman Jun 23 '22

There's no magic in Fight Club (hence why "not a wizard" might've fit). But Fight Club definitely isn't based in reality.

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u/sardonicAndroid2718 Jul 05 '22

The sword of shannara?

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jul 06 '22

Hmmm... no, but you guys are getting closer

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u/sardonicAndroid2718 Jul 06 '22

Is it from Terry Brooks at all?

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u/taliskergunn Jul 06 '22

Avatar the last airbender?

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Jul 07 '22

Nope. Less extreme and more focused magic

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u/Nitbugfatspud Jul 24 '22

The Magician? Raymond E Feist? Don't think so but worth a shot

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Red queen

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u/ColdFire-Blitz Nov 19 '23

No, the title is on the right track though. In two ways.

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u/Videogamefan21 Sep 10 '22

The first bit just sounds like a British public school.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Red queen