Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-78.0.215.197-20150202084809/@comment-6383956-20150226032717

I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but....this entire conversation is absurd in the extreme and anyone -- even you, Paul -- claiming to know what is and isn't magic is literally full of it. We don't know. There's no information.

We have not been told Peter's resurrection had anything to do with his Alpha spark or his healing abilities. We know what happened in the ritual, which was that a banshee used a former Alpha werewolf's blood relative (who also happened to have killed him, also happened to be an Alpha, and also happened to be dosed with wolfsbane) to drip blood on the burial site of the deceased werewolf under the light of the full moon (which happened to be the Worm Moon). Literally any or none or all of those could be significant to Peter's resurrection -- we don't know. So we can't say it was or wasn't magical.

Furthermore, we can't say werewolves are or aren't magical. The genre commonly goes two ways on this -- lycanthropy is a curse (and werewolves are magical) or lycanthropy is a disease (and werewolves aren't magical). And the closest this show has given us on this is a myth about Lycaon being cursed by Zeus. But it's a myth so we still don't know.

And then we get into the whole question of "what is magic?" because that's something that changes from fictional universe to fictional universe. In some universes, it's used interchangeably with the word "supernatural" -- we haven't seen that in TW, it's safe to say that's not the case. But without any more to go on than that, it's impossible for anyone to say definitively if something is magic or if it isn't.

So why don't we all just admit that none of us know and we're all spouting aribtrary headcanons that can't be supported by anything on the show? Because none of this is canon.