It’s a gloomy Friday here in Canada but we can still brighten things up with Archetype-Avatar of the day!
Today we look at the Wizard: powerful, clever, knowledgeable, and burdened by responsibility. I have chosen Hermoine Granger for this Avatar.
Hermoine is super smart, gifted with magicks, and more than most examples out there she really understands the importance and weight to what Magic can do to the world. She doesn’t rest on her laurels (like some other wizards who will go unnamed).
Beat that!
Nice!
And, of course, I couldn’t help but see umpteen homages to a certain smartass wizard in the playbook itself…
Why, I’m sure I have no idea what you mean, Andy Hauge [looks shifty].
I can’t believe I forgot about American Horror Story: Murder House when discussing the Spectre, but I will give AHS: Coven some love here. It’s hard to narrow it down to just one, but I put Cordelia forward as an awesome example of the Wizard.
Willow is another super-obvious example. (Go Willow!)
John Constantine! Obviously the Keanu Reeves movie is kind of a disaster (I like it, but it’s not Constantine), but the comics are so freaking amazing.
Would Annalise from Twenty Palaces count? Only read the first book, mind you…
For once I’m all for a not-Buffy example. Basically because Hermione Granger is amazing.
I can’t believe Harry Dresden hasn’t been mentioned yet! ^^
In comics, I prefer Timothy Hunter (Books of Magic) to John Constantine.
Harry Dresden from the Dresden Files for sure for me.
Oh! Balthazar from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a solid Wizard example as well. That whole movie is actually fantastic magic fodder.
Robert Ruthven I think she should! Those books are really underrated.
Dr Facilier from Princess and the Frog
all three of the Witches of Eastwick
Book Hermione > Movie Hermione