@Katiea3105 Hope was born with Dark Magic in her system, but only traces of it (not in large quantities). This is due to the vampire blood in her system as mentioned by Dahlia. When the Hollow possessed her later in life, she was exposed to greater amounts of DM.

The Harvest was never ever Dark Magic. It was never classified, mention, or shown to be Dark Magic. The Harvest was strictly powered by Ancestral Magic and executed through sacrifice. The magic Davina had during the Harvest was the magic of the other three girls, but many fans have different theories about this being true because the power of 4 witches shouldn’t be strong enough to wreck the Originals and New Orleans the way Davina did.

It isn’t just Davina and the harvest girls magic. I am pretty sure that she was channeling the Ancestors as the Harvest is used to restore their link with the Ancestors.

That’s the theory I live by as well. There was no way that the magic of 4 witches could do all the things Davina did. Unless each of those witches were as powerful as Bonnie or Qetsiyah or something. But after the Harvest, neither Davina, Monique etc showed any extraordinary power using their own magic. And there’re clues to support it but the greatest one imo was that she could sense whenever anyone used Ancestral Magic and see them do it. That’s the best clue. Also, the stronger she got the weaker the ancestral witches got.

It really doesn’t help that Dark magic gets used as a loose term in witchcraft at times. Even Sacrificial magic is considered dark magic at times. As for the theory of Davina also drawing on the ancestors when combined with the harvest power. Seems like that could be the case. But I believe it was mostly the harvest girls power( After all each of them were supposed to be exceptionally powerful).

Plus, Davina strong negative emotions heightening the great power. 😎

I personally don’t think it matches because none of those girls, not even Davina, showed exceptional power on her own. I mean, when all four Harvest girls were in the cemetery, and even channeling the powers of their Ancestors, they couldn’t do much to the Originals, Marcel and Hayley. That was enough power to kill an Original or contain Hellfire, but it didn’t live up to the hype. We know it requires at least the power of 100 witches to create a storm that can cover an entire town/city that would mean each Harvest Girl had power equal to 25 witches. That’s the power of a large coven in this universe. Yet, Davina didn’t show this kind of power on her own.

They were still very powerful. Even though the rest didn't get to showcase much. Davina repesented well. And Esther choosing Cassie as a host supports this idea(not to mention Freya saying Cassie was powerful). Add those levels on top of each other and the fact that Davina got their full powers instead of just half of each one. It only makes sense she would be crazy strong. Btw, I don't think you need half of a hundred witches to cause a storm. When you got four different exceptional powerful beings in you.

Nah, I didn’t see the power you’re talking about. Davina was powerful, but on a very basic level. Nothing exceptional. I mean what feat did she do with just her own power? I honestly want to know all the feats she performed without any external help and what she used it to do. That would tell me if she was above average powerful.

And every single witch we’ve seen create/control weather was heavily juiced with magic. Bonnie, Dahlia, Davina and the Hollow are the only witches we’ve seen create storms. Bonnie had exactly 100 witches magic + hers when she did it the first and second time. The third time, she had Expression. Davina had the Harvest power (it was stated that she was hemorrhaging magic, while New Orleans went to ruin, which definitely wouldn’t have come from herself and 3 other teens). Dahlia and the Hollow need no explanation (they channeled heavily). Outside that, we’ve never seen any other witch create a storm the size of a city else it’d have been common. Which is why I can’t say anything less than power equal to 100 witches magic or more.

She overwhelmed three werewolves with pain infliction spell to save Marcel's friend. She made a whole room of people fall asleep and was able to force Lucien to his knees.

Yeah, great sources of magic. We know Bonnie couldn't have used all the 100 witches powers do to the fact it would have killed her and she should havs started having nose bleeds the closer she got to that power. Even with expression she only had the power of 24(technically 36 but I'm not sure if the humans gave her a real power boost)supernaturals to effect the weather drastically. Davina and the other girls were very powerful with great potential. Fuse that togther with strong negative emotions. You get Davina the super witch.

Bonnie with expression was already powerful without the power of the sacrifice.

The only time Davina would have used her own raw magic would be after she was shunned. No natural connection to her ancestors’ powers anymore. So the werewolf scene would have still been ancestral magic, not her own power. Also, in the scene with Lucien and the bar vamps, Davina was still one of the Sisters, practicing their brand of powerful Dark Magic. So you can’t say she used her own magic either. And she wouldn’t have gone up against Lucien and a bar of vamps empty handed, being that she’d never really known the full extent of her own power.

Though I’ll admit that you’re right about Bonnie not needing all that power to create the storm else it’d have killed her and she’d have shown signs of fatigue if she used up all of it.