Quote:Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:Here's the funny thing about Wizardry: half the work is in talking to the things around you and getting them to do what you want. And sometimes, if they really like you, they'll do what you want whether you're a Wizard or not. Behold that one mechanic who knows exactly what is wrong with your car just by listening to it. Or the person that knows horses really well. Or even the humble house-wife gardner that has the most beautiful garden in town and knows exactly what's going on there.
Well, the most obvious question to ask is how Calvin wound up taking the Wizard's Oath.
Or, perhaps, whether he has taken it at all, and if not, wtf'ing f?!
This was spot-lighted at one point in the books.
And children are especially susceptable to this. In fact, Liused, the Rowan tree in Nita's yard from which she gets her Rowan wands from, told her about how the trees always love the little human children that come to play in their branches because it reminds them of how people used to live in them... and how happy they are when one of their children comes back to them as a wizard.
Now, wizardry does not live in the unwilling heart. This is part of why the wizards don't usually have to cover up what they do - if someone sees something, their 'rational mind' does the work for them by coming up with a 'rational explaination.' Yes, even some of the more wild stuff like the events at the end of So You Want to Be a Wizard, where the Lone Power came chasing Nita and Kit back to their home dimension with an army of nasties behind him, turned off the sun, and made of mess of everything in general.
So, Snow Goons would pound on front doors, tins of tuna disapear, multiple Calvins run amuck, and his parents chalk it all up to having a hyperactive kid with a particularly wild imagination. Oh, and why was Hobbes so freaked out by the Snow Goons? Well, A) Wouldn't you? and B) Early attempt by the Lone Power to do something about a potential pain-in-the-ass. Not the first time he's done it, either, IIRC.