Fairies and witches, their motivation

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So we "know" that Maleficent was hurt by her friend and took it out on his kid, and Alphaba just wanted to fit in.

Just watched Beauty and the Belle and wondering what the Enchantresses reason was. Sure the Prince was a dick but she loved in the village all these years so she wasn't just going around teaching arrogant Princes' a lesson. What had he done to warrant her final action?

Any other bad fairies or witches whose motivation isn't clear?

I've always thought Tinkerbell is a bit odd.

I still think Hans in frozen can't be bad really.

In Irish folklore, fairies were not skippy, twee Flower Fairy type things, but powerful, amoral, acquisitive beings who covet babies and nursing mothers, whom they kidnap, leaving ‘changeling’ replacements. So fairies exist to offer pre-scientific folk explanations for babies who were different, had deformities or developmental delays, or failed to thrive (sometimes to the point of justifying infanticide), and women who ‘went strange’ with what we would now recognise as postnatal depression or psychosis.

That Mrs Weasley - she's a bit of a dark horse if you ask me.

There is a series of books from the Villains side, they are for children but interesting and creative.

Can I recommend "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" by Susannah Clarke for a rounded insight into the psyche of your average British fairy?

To sum up: they do stuff because a) they feel like it, and b) they can.

I recently watched the show, a creative take on magic in England.