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Why was the spell to bring Buffy back different then the one Dawn did to bring back Joyce?

I have been watching the Buffy seasons over again with my cousin and I realized that in Season 5 in the episode Forever when Dawn does the spell to bring Joyce back its completely different from the one Willow does to bring Buffy back. Why is that? Its the same resurrection spell? Does it have to do with how they died? I was just wondering. A bit curious. Thanks :)
 NikkiLovesOTH posted over a year ago
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wateringcan said:
i thought that the spell dawn used was a bit risky, like there was the chance joyce would only partially come back to life, whilst willow could harness more witch powers and use a more successful spell
also another reason was because buffy died of supernatural causes, whilst joyce died of natural ones
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Yukari12 said:
I think that it's because of the urn of Osiris. Remember when they did the ritual to revive Buffy and the urn broke. Willow was all in tears, because without the urn, they could not revive Buffy.
Because of this it cannot be the same spell.
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bri-marie said:
It was a different spell. I think it was the guy that gave the spell to Dawn. Remember, he was a demon who worshiped Glory - a bad guy. Willow found the spell through her research and knowledge of witchiness.

The way I understood it, the spell would have made Joyce more of a zombie than an actual person.
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buffyl0v3r44 said:
because Buffy was killed by a mystical force and Willow is a very powerful witch and the spell worked better of course, the spell that Dawn used for Joyce was more of like a zombie sort of spell and would've brought Joyce back as a zombie and that would've been really bad!
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ilovemichael17 said:
because of the urn and the spell dawn used was risky well so was willows. willows spell was scary O.O
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daphne24 said:
The spell was different because the spell willow used had the urn and that caused it to only bring back people from demonic deaths. Dawns spell was just to get her mom back and Joyce died because of a brain tumor. That is not a demonic cause.
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