Talk:Magic/@comment-71.214.60.49-20121024040241/@comment-5450224-20121025021300

Well then, I'm not sure there are any examples yet. But, then, to quote Jules from Pulp Fiction "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" Basically, there's not really any evidence to support the assertion that the auras are visible, but then there's also not much evidence to suggest that they aren't visible, either. It could be that they can hide the glow around the object itself with extra effort if they're trying to be subtle about it. But then that's just conjecture, too.

There aren't really a lot of situations in which anyone would have logically reacted to the aura itself, at least not in any way constructive to any aspect of the episode outside of the examples you mentioned. As for those, the first three could be explained by that theory, I think.

Pinkie wasn't facing the blinds anyways, and they would only have to be pulled for a quick second.

The plow didn't have the aura from far away, but it would be pretty difficult to see it at that distance, and no one was really anywhere near it.

Um, I don't really know which episode you're referring to with Twilight levitating Fluttershy. It sounds pretty familiar, but my memory's not very good with this sort of thing, so I can't really say anything about that.

As for Cadence's magic, it's possible that no one there ever paid that much attention to the actual color, and maybe auras can change due to personal development or something. That would explain most of the weird changes in color throughout the whole show, but it's also just more speculation.

Anyways, since the topic is never addressed and there's pretty much no confirmed information on it, I don't think we can really draw any definitive conclusions unless they mention it later. But the evidence is definitely in favor of your explanation since most of mine is backed with more unconfirmed theories.

Oh, and I knew about light magic (from Boast Busters), I guess I was misremembering the episode. It's been a while since I've seen it, I thought she was using some other kind of magic, although in retrospect, I really don't know which spell I thought she was using. Like I said, bad memory.