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I want to know your winner and your reasons.

Right, off you go!

Granny Weatherwax because anyone in Discworld would wipe the floor with any Dumbbledore Dorkboy based on cool alone.

Fair.

Especially if she decides to call on the Pictsies. Or 'Borrow' Nagini....

None because both gets hunted down and burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy

Oh they've tried that with Esme Weatherwax...

Wasn't it the case that, up until "recently" in the Discworld, wizardly advancement meant blowing up your rivals with fireballs, until Ridcully came around? In the Potterverse, the bad guys just had to take over the bureaucracy. I'm fairly certain Lord Snakesnout couldn't put a dent in the Archchancellor.

And Granny Weatherwax could run circles around the Discworld wizards with her Headology.

(All this does is remind me that I need to get on with buying more Discworld library editions for my collection...)

"as for you Tom Riddle, being pretty and having a shilling or two don't mean you can do as you want to everyone else, now go home, and the odd please and thank you won't kill you neither"

Granny wins Headology

I'm not saying i would read a fic where Granny Weatherwax just tells off a bunch of villains from other...

Wait i would read that in a heartbeat.

Oh, absolutely no contest. Much of Voldemort's power comes from fear; the knowledge that Death Eaters might show up at your house one night if you got out of line or happened to have Muggle blood kept the wizarding world terrified.

Now...what happens to people who try to intimidate Granny Weatherwax?

It's not much of a fight, is it?

On the one hand we have Voldemort who is so scared of death he was willing to rip his soul apart to avoid it.

On the other hand we have Granny Weatherwax who stayed up all night to meet death in order to play him at poker for the life of a little girl she didn't even know. After winning the game she then also fixed his arm strain. When death asked what would have happened if she had lost the card game? "Well, for a start... I'd have broken your bloody arm."

Out of the two. Id rate grimdelwald more powerful than Voldemort..

One feared Dumbledore. His only combat with him was a minute or two and then he swapped tactic and went psy ops on Harry instead.
There other faced him with a god wand in a 2-3 hour duel that made legends.

(spoiler. Fantastic beasts)


I know nothing of Granny, but Voldemort probbly is nor most for.idable dark wizard.

Just some Harry Potter perspective.

(unlike two other legends Voldemort never masters elder wand)

jhe90 wrote:




I know nothing of Granny, but Voldemort probbly is nor most for.idable dark wizard.

Just some Harry Potter perspective.

Granny can win fights without needing to use magic, that's how good she is.

Yup. In fact, Granny very rarely uses magic at all.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup. In fact, Granny very rarely uses magic at all.

Well, not overtly. But there are many ways of "using" magic in the Discworld. And if the effect of using magic is the same as the effect of someone thinking you used magic, then why even make the distinction?

Thinks.

Is there anyone in fiction that Granny Weatherwax wouldn't absolutely wipe the floor with? (Eventually, at least).

The only person I could see taking her down, if it was really, truly, absolutely necessary is Gytha Ogg. And she won't be using magic to do it.

 Graphite wrote:
Thinks.

Is there anyone in fiction that Granny Weatherwax wouldn't absolutely wipe the floor with? (Eventually, at least).

The only person I could see taking her down, if it was really, truly, absolutely necessary is Gytha Ogg. And she won't be using magic to do it.

This is the truth.

i feel like i remember one of the books saying that in certain important ways, Nanny was the more powerful witch, but i can't for the life of me remember which one it was in, or if it was in any at all.

 amazingturtles wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Thinks.

Is there anyone in fiction that Granny Weatherwax wouldn't absolutely wipe the floor with? (Eventually, at least).

The only person I could see taking her down, if it was really, truly, absolutely necessary is Gytha Ogg. And she won't be using magic to do it.

This is the truth.

i feel like i remember one of the books saying that in certain important ways, Nanny was the more powerful witch, but i can't for the life of me remember which one it was in, or if it was in any at all.

+1 from me too.

The simple fact is that Granny wouldn't even have needed to duel Voldemort herself. She would've felt the story trying to play itself out and just barged her way in to make sure it ended Right. So in a sense we've already seen how it would end if Granny were to go against Voldemort.

 amazingturtles wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Thinks.

Is there anyone in fiction that Granny Weatherwax wouldn't absolutely wipe the floor with? (Eventually, at least).

The only person I could see taking her down, if it was really, truly, absolutely necessary is Gytha Ogg. And she won't be using magic to do it.

This is the truth.

i feel like i remember one of the books saying that in certain important ways, Nanny was the more powerful witch, but i can't for the life of me remember which one it was in, or if it was in any at all.

It's said the Ogg's are naturally more potent, but don't work as hard at it.

At least that's what Nanny claims

Woe betide anyone up to mischief when Granny decides We Don't Hold With That....