Dear Petty Word-Chopper,
What have you got against a plethora of factors affecting somebody's emotional tone and balance? Also why does Granny have to be this...
ROBOT of a character who's never wrong, always winning and thinks her way around every obstacle before she even gets out of bed?
In fact - let's try it your way a minute because you may be onto why
Carpe Jugulam is the last of the Coven books (so far) - Granny just got so perfect and powerful that nobody was ever going to be able to beat her and so maybe TERRY GOT BORED WITH THE OLD BAG because she'd have had nowhere else to go in terms of excellence. which in turn makes it all too easy and trite for her. How do heroes get to be heroes without a little bit of adversity along the way? She
has to work for it a little bit else it's all
"yeah, yeah she's Granny and when's the next joke coming up Terry?"
Your answer (which you have already had of course) is that Granny
wasn't doubting herself at all over the lack of invite
at first. She was ballistic with anger over
not apparently getting one - she
wanted to be invited like everyone else (except of course she was all along) and
that's where the Magpyr's slid in and started their own chipping away at her sensibilities (rather than her common sense) which triggers all the out of character self-examination and soul-searching, which in turn make her behave differently to how she normally would and open to manipulation up until she's got the others to follow her to the gnarly ground.
Lily and Black Aliss - easy peasy.

It's the power tripping. Granny can't be having with that. She's a community witch and looks after her own (even if they have to go to Genua or A-M). Why stay in a hick place like Lancre when you can wreak havoc in bigger places with more people, more accolades, more
power? Granted Aliss maybe didn't mix much with people - that's more Lily's style but maybe Aliss had a different idea about power and got off on kicking Vampire ass more? They are rather fun after all...
Sincerely
JVQ
PS. Religion is a false premise on Discworld since the foundation of religion is belief and faith in the absence of proof. The Discworld gods (including Om) are real therefore belief and faith in them aren't needed. Neither are priests, as Blind Io etc can make their needs known perfectly well without any 'intercession'. Omnism, post the true Prophet Brutha, is in fact a purely human philosophic vehicle with a godhead tagged on for the look of things. But I'll argue with you about it if you really want.... :twisted:
Or we could both apply to join the Jesuits and really have some fun...? :twisted: