User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/Slenderman Vs Harry Potter/@comment-4484220-20130305185640

When there is a battle that involves one or more warriors with natural abilities, I generally compare them by analyzing all the abilities of the warrior with less abilities, and seeing how the warrior with more abilities would try to counteract them. Slender Man's abilities are few enough to put on a small list. Harry definitely has a far wider range of magic here, seeing as how there are enough spells, charms, enchantments, and curses to fill a lot of books (and in the wizarding world, there are).


 * Slender Man has Slender Walking. With this, he can instantly and silently teleport away from where he is to another position. However, Harry has some teleportation of his own: apparation. (some people on this wiki demonstrate their astounding Harry Potter knowledge by calling it apparition, which drives me absolutely insane) It should be noted though, that apparation isn't absolutely instantaneous, unlike Slender Man's teleportation. Before the wizard reaches the destination, they are in some place of suspended animation for a few seconds. While this doesn't get longer the farther the Wizard is traveling, it still lasts some amount of time even if they're traveling a short distance. In addition, both the disapparation, and the apparation cause a loud crack to sound, which pretty much gives away the wizard's position. The only wizards in the Harry Potter world powerful enough to silently apparate that I know of are Albus Dumbledore and Voldemort. I'm not saying apparation won't be useful to Harry here- it just won't work well if he's trying to be stealthy at the moment. One thing about Slendy's Slender walking that really puts Harry in danger is that he could cheaply teleport behind and instantly kill Harry. It is possible that Harry could detect Slender Man, but I'd be surprised if he were able to know what was happening and react quickly enough to save himself if Slender Man tried to perform this quick sneak attack. If Slendy decides to pull out this trump card during the battle, then I honsetly think Harry doesn't have a way to counteract this, and that he's toast. Harry can only hope that he'll be able to end the battle before Slender Man decides to use this.


 * Slender Man has Time Travel. Sounds pretty useful, but to be quite honest, I'm not seeing a whole lot of good this will do Slendy. One of the only reasons I'd see Slender Man wanting to use just a few minutes of time manipulation would be to redeem a mistake... But most of those mistakes he'd want to redeem would probably include being hit by a curse. The temporary effects of most of the curses we see Harry use in the movies and books have shown to be able to reduce a fully grown man to a state of complete helplesness. Such as the stunning curse which will knock Slender Man unconscious, and will keep him that way for more than long enough for Harry to figure out what to do with the beast. The impediment curse which will greatly slow down Slender Man's movement, the full body bind curse which will completely immobilize Slender Man, and much more. I'd be very surprised if Slender Man was able to use any of his abilities in these disabled states.


 * Slender Man has camoflage. Slender Man may be able to become invisible, but there's a rather simple charm that can reveal to the caster the presence of other people, regardless of what sorcery they're using to visually hide themselves. While this charm only works on humans, I have no doubt that there is a similar charm in the Harry Potter world that allows you to know where invisible beasts are, and it is not all-too unlikely that a wizard is taught how to do this during their seven years of magical education at Hogwarts. So this camoflage wouldn't be much help to Slender Man once the battle has begun. The only time Slender Man will be able to effectively use his invisibility will be before the battle begins if he tries to get the drop on Harry Potter. I have done a bit of speculating with the claim that Harry would be able to detect Slendy based on his magical prowess displayed in the movies and books as well as the magic that exists elsewhere in that universe, but I'm afraid it would be too far of a stretch to assume that Harry would be able to enter the battle field with some enchantment that goes into a sort of "autopilot" state, and notifies him when there is another being within the area. I think that Harry would have to cast this charm himself every time he wishes to know of any other presence. Therefore, if Slendy doesn't end the battle as soon as he begins it, then his cloaking isn't going to be much help.


 * Slender Man has Height Change. With this, Slender Man can extend his limbs and sprout tentacles from his back for use in physically strangling others. The main disadvantage Slender Man has in this fight mentioned later in this vote is his lack of range. His tentacles and extended limbs can only reach so far. Harry's spells, on the other hand, can be casted from quite far distances where Slender Man can't hurt him. And in the unlikely event that Slender Man gets close enough to Harry, the only circumstances I'm seeing under which Harry couldn't apparate away to a farther distance would be if Slender Man teleported behind Harry and surprised him as mentioned above. The extending arms, legs, and tentacles aren't going to be much help for Slender Man here.


 * Slender Man can give sickness. Some people have been mentioning this ability of Slender Man's on this blog post, so I'll clarify here for completeness: According to the Slender Man wiki, it requires prolonged exposure for someone to get sick because of Slender Man, and that those who got sick from him were in relationships with him. Seeing as how Harry will be trying to defeat him as soon as he sees him, there most likely won't be any time for sickness to spread to Harry during the battle, especially if he keeps his distance, which I predict he will. Even supposing there are some negative effects on Harry's health long after the battle, there are plenty of remedies in the Harry Potter world to combat magical ailments.


 * Slender Man has mind control. By age fourteen when Harry's untrained mind-control-resisting skills were tested for the first time, he showed to be a natural at almost defying an imperious curse. As his fourth year at Hogwarts was coming to a close,  Harry completely resisted an imperious curse casted by the Dark Lord himself, simultaneously being tortured by a crutiatus curse. That is mind power right there. Furthermore, by the end of the seventh book, Harry manages to completely block out all visions that are both accidentally and purposefully sent to him as a result of the mental connection that exists between Harry and Voldemort throughout the first seventeen years of Harry's life. Seeing this resistance Harry has shown to mind manipulation magic, I believe that this could be applied to the kinds of mind tricks that Slender Man attempts to perform on his victims, and that Harry would be completely immune to anything of this sort that Slender Man may try to throw at him.

DEADLIEST WARRIOR: HARRY POTTER

Harry completely dominates in ranged attacks. The mind manipulation techniques that Slender Man might try to use will be useless, leaving him with no ranged attacks at all. All curses and charms can simply be cast by Harry with the flick of a wand, and if he decides to, speak the necessary incantation as well. Basically one stunning curse from Harry will knock Slender Man unconscious and end the battle. One full-body bind curse and the battle is over. One impediment curse, and Slender Man is going to be moving very slowly, making him very vulnerable and open to another curse. Harry will be able to apparate to a farther position if Slenderman even gets close to Harry, and shoot a curse from there. The only hope Slender Man has of winning this fight is if he quickly teleports behind Harry and kills him before he has time to react. I suppose the likelihood of that happening depends on how often Slender Man cannonically does this, so since I don't know how any official media handles this, I don't know exactly how frequently he uses this, so my claim that this isn't very likely is prominently inherent to the fact that I'm a bit biased when it comes to wizards from the Harry Potter world. I also want to say it won't be very likely simply because it seems cheap. If Slender Man doesn't usually begin on this note, then Harry will surely win, because as soon as there's distance between the two combatants, Harry's spells will very quickly subdue Slender Man before Slendy realizes he'd need to fall back to fighting dirty in order to beat Harry, by which time it's too late, and  Harry Potter has already ended the battle.