Innovations in Magick

Blessings Darlings!

Hermione Granger is a kick-ass character in the Harry Potter book series.  She is smart.  She is brave.  She grows and changes over the course of the series.  She may well be the BRIGHTEST witch of 'our age' in the book.

But in my never humble opinion, she is not the MOST TALENTED witch of 'our age' in the book.  That honor belongs to the Weasley twins.

Yes, they got few O.W.L.s.  They are not academics.  They are brilliant, practical, practicing, perfecting Mages. They created new spells that they used in their products.  The spellwork/products took some extensive testing, with some amounts of mistakes made and problems having to be solved.

They were INNOVATORS.  They made their own spells.  Hermione never did that, never seems to have THOUGHT of doing that.  She's great for memorizing what others have worked on, but does not create things herself.

But all those spells Hermione mined from books and teachers were created by someone, at some time. 

So what? This is the real world!

Look, I know that most folks out there, even those who say they are on pagan or occult or witch or magical paths are 'armchair occultists' - readers who don't do any actual magic.  Of the people who DO actually do any magical or occult work, most just use spells they got from one source or another.

Then there are the folks who create spells.  You can be one of those folks. 

Over the next week or so I'll start posting on what goes into creating spells, both what I'd say is behind the type of spells in Harry Potter and those that folks like you and I can create.

It's not rocket science.  It's .... magic.

Frondly, Fern

Wand Worship

Blessings Darlings!

I'm having to re-create this post - it was WONDERFUL, but the Chubby Hubby tried bowdlerizing it down to his comfort level and 'somehow' totally erased it.  I'm writing with out the glow of divine inspiration behind the original post and with a high level of anger distracting me.  I'm sorry for the comparatively crappy post.


The post started with me saying how the Chubby Hubby is now FINALLY reading the Harry Potter books.  The Spawn and I read them as they were released, but the CH didn't.  Which meant CH kept asking us what was going on when we watched the movies.  Asked LOUDLY, because he doesn't hear well.  In movie theaters, except for the last two which we saw pay-per-view.  He's also a pain in the ass to see movies with.


So, we're having conversations about magical theory in Harry Potter, how Hermione could POSSIBLY take SEVERAL SEMESTERS of Arithromancy (it's only addition and memorizing the associations of 0 - 9, right?) and so on.  Me, I'm again struck with the wand worship J.K. Rowling exhibits.

Yeah, it was probably a convenient tool for the overall plot arc.  But it comes across to me as just a phallic pissing match.  Whose wand is better. Whose wood is better.  Whose wand overcame someone else's wand. Whose wand is bigger. She might was well have had everyone have wands made up of animals' phallic bones instead of the bowdlerized 'wood' that they were of.

What utter and total horseshit.

In MY universe, the wand is a tool for and symbol of the Magical Will.  Once you have 'mastered the tool' - have basic control of your Magical Will - you no longer need the tool.  You can use your finger if you choose.  You can use your hand. You can use your ELBOW.  You can use .... nothing but your Will.  You don't need the wand/rod of God/one eyed wonder worm any more.

So the more experienced and powerful a magic user you are in MY universe, the less you need or care about the wand (or any other tool).  Meanwhile, in the Harry Potter universe, the Big Bad (or Good) Wizards are still all about getting the Big Bad Most Powerful Wand, or at least a wand that has a lineage of owners who de-wanded - yeah, quite the emasculation image - the person whose ass you want to magically kick. 

Frondly, Fern