Please declare your witchcraft major.

In Hawthorn’s Hex, Kit begins to specialize in creating wards. The creation of the city-wide ward, and the theme of keeping dangerous people out of your space, is pretty much the point of the novel. Funny though, in Parasitic Souls, one of the young mages in that book is also an expert in creating wards. I must have decided that creating wards to protect a home or a city would be the most desirable, the most useful, and the most lucrative magic ability. It seems like the kind of ability that would fit exceptionally well into the modern world.

But maybe you’d rather throw fireballs. Or would you rather be able to use the force to control the minds of the weak, as Obi Wan did? What about elemental magic? Making the wind blow or transmuting lead into gold or being a water bender?

My novels don’t have much place for that kind of high-falutin’ magic--the mages in my books are a lot more subtle. The only major exception is Aaliyah Pearl, which is why I gave her OCD and made her a rather anxious person, because if she weren’t a bit nervous and squirrelly, she’d outgun everyone else in the series. Personally, I’d rather have magic that could protect me or bring good things into my life. I think that being able to throw fireballs would be like owning a lightsaber--it’s all fun and games until someone loses an arm. 

What kind of magic ability would you want to specialize in, if magic were something you could learn through study? I’m not talking about one special superpower (because duh, flight, obviously) but if you were at the Hedge Witch Community College and you had to declare a major, what would it be?

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