Random meme

[winter]

From ninjatrauma:

1. Comment in this post with a pairing, a character, or a threesome.

2. I shall write you back a paragraph explaining what I think about it (good, bad, indifferent) and why.

3. Let's discuss / argue / CAPSLOCK at each other about it! I only ask that you don't get insulted, angry, mean, or stupid.

*bats eyelashes* Anyone? :) And anything I ever heard of!

Comments

[winter]

As lessons in how magic can go wrong, I assume?

Of the three, Severus is the most realistic. He's a clear example of the fact that magic does not solve every problem. Presumably he starts off from this point of view, and it's this quest for power that makes him follow Voldemort's cause. But there is blindness, and there are barriers we cannot cross. Snape runs headlong into one and the rest is a balancing act on its edge. I think it's telling that he deals in Potions, the least showy and perhaps most powerful magic of all: every time he tries to solve his problems with the wave of the wand, it's bound to misfire and blow his own hand off.

Granny Weatherwax maintains she knows that magic solves everything, and is likewise reluctant to show it off. But I've always had the impression it's lip service. While Severus got over his crush on power, Esme is still in love with it, and it has made her just as bitter. Magic is her entire life, and there's not enough of it to go around to provide for a full existence.

Willow, I must say I don't know enough about in her magical persona, since I've only seen the first two seasons. But I've always balked at the way they took the character. I liked the little techno-witch, and I think she would have been better off that way. Instead it was the writers, not Willow, who got lost in the possibilities magic offered and finally saw no other way out than to make everything go boom. The end result is that even for Spike, whom I adore, I'm not going to go out of my way chasing down the last two seasons of Buffy.