I Love This Analysis And It Does Feel Like It Was Intentional For Them To Bring Back A Concept We Didn't

I love this analysis and it does feel like it was intentional for them to bring back a concept we didn't know would be used again 💜

I think the draining spell is actually meant to be a reverse-Moonlight Conjuring?

You have a circle of witches; The more powerful, the better the ritual.

You use the power of the moon overhead…

You have subject(s), which can even be alive, to transfer magic from the moon and into them, or transfer life from the subject and into the moon.

Could be intentional or not, but it makes me wonder if Hooty’s Moving Hassle foreshadowed one of the big climaxes of the series, as did Eda’s line about powerful magic because that’s who the coven heads are, and I believe it’s implied, if not outright stated, that stronger coven heads means a more effective draining spell, hence Belos’ insistence on using Darius, Raine, and Eberwolf. If the draining spell had stronger coven heads, it might’ve weakened Raine too much to save Eda, and weakened Alador too much to give the Hexsquad cover to travel to the skull and free the Collector…

Unsurprisingly, this means a colonizer took a ritual meant to cultivate social bonds and bastardized it outside of its original meaning to perform genocide.