Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180331005828/@comment-25375217-20180331162557

CaptainCobra wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: Lady Rapunzel wrote: Lady Junky wrote: Am I the only one who think it was weird for Gretel to try to join the Coven of the witch who nearly killed & ate her? x) It was very weird. If Hilda knew Gretel had magic, wouldn't she want her to be a part of the Coven? The implication is that Gretel didn't learn magic until after her encounter with Hilda. Learning magic was her way of making sure she was never a victim again. Gothel said they were two spots left in the Coven so perhaps after Gretel's death Drizella told Gothel about her story and the witch who attacked her. Then Gothel recruited Hilda. Gothel told Drizella (and presumably Gretel) that that was a lie and there was only one spot left. Granted, since she claims to have lied once, she may have lied the second time and there were always two spots... but it's hard to say.

I'd say the most likely reason is that Gothel never really intended on Gretel joining the Coven. She clearly set Drizella and Gretel up -- two spots available and they can't work together, but these two just so happen to have tragic backstories involving their siblings and are incredibly stubborn... they were bound to end up together. But there was one thing Drizella offered to the Coven that Gretel did not: the Dark Curse (and the willingness to cast it).

Had Gretel bested Drizella, Gothel likely would have recruited her and moved on to the next poor, damaged girl who wants to torture someone by going to a place with no happy endings, but I don't think she ever cared enough to wonder what might happen when Gretel and the Blind Witch are reunited.