Great chapter. Keep up the good work.

It's good to see this story continuing though I'm a bit sad it was so short. I'm very curious to learn more about the government angle.

Yay update :-) Would love for the Queens guards to be magical or her to be able to call on some thing magical for protection would be fun great story so far and is miss harkness anything to do with Torchwood?

Miss Harkness, in the Buffyverse, is a member of the Devon Coven that helped Willow between Seasons 6 and 7.

Should be a real interesting meeting at Hogwarts. Glad to see Willow teaching the squibs. That will, in the long run, have a big effect on the wizarding society, I'm thinking. Hey. What about Argus Filch? I remember when it turned out he was a squib, desperately taking correspondence courses to try to do magic. Felt bad for him. He had a reason for being so bitter.
Meeting up with the SGC should be even more interesting. They'll think at first that she's using alien tech.

Well, the only named squib that Willow's teaching is Agatha Harkness. There are three others, not identified by name or even gender. Never know who they could be...

Actually Xander 'can' work magic. He's just not particularly 'good' at it.

He once set a book on fire by reading from it out loud.

Well, one could argue that reading aloud from books is like D&D scrolls - the person reading is not working the magic, the person who enspelled the scroll was. If you'll notice, that's how they treated Moloch.

However, you're assuming both that what you saw on the series is what Willow saw from her perspective, and that she was being completely honest with Arabella. Do you see how, in seven out of eight situations, it comes out as I wrote it?

I thought most of victims of the witch trials were actually muggles, with a few rare exceptions.

According to Potter-verse history...

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/International_Statute_of_Wizarding_Secrecy

Great story so far. Keep up the good work.

Thanks. Sorry I didn't get a chapter out this weekend, but airplane flights wait for no man.

I'm afraid we have no context for Hermionies age at the start of this. Or really for the end though it is at least a bit clearer. I would recomend you throw in at least a little bit of detail to help clarify that. Also perhaps a little bit of either explaining to Hermionie why she's here or removing the cause of her objection as its quite obvious that Willow is magical. Maybe a, "Are you sure it's okay to talk to her." or something along those lines rather than invoking the statute of secrecy.

Willow's from California, where the age of consent is 18. Agatha's aunt teached as a school where students from 11 to 18 attend. Therefore, by Willow's reckoning, she's underage (although the age of consent there is 16), because she's almost certainly under 18.

Hermione is not going to say things in that manner. She quotes the reason behind her question. That's always been her MO.

Would Willow set wards that might hurt an innocent bug? Or maybe it senses it isn't one. Good point about Voldemort/maybe being the First . Won't be able to trust any ghosts either. Sounds like the First has learned a little.

Well, the wards aren't actually hurting the bug, just keeping it constrained.

Of course, if the bug wasn't what it seemed to be, there might be problems. Violence, strong words, a PG-13 rating...

While I'm making no pronouncements at this point, I'd be leaning against having Voldy be the First. He has too many constraints. Doesn't stop him from being evil, of course.

Naughty author- teasing us with not even snippets of Willow's backstory.

Interesting and informative chapter detailing the structure of Wizarding society.


Just have one:
witch hunts between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries actually caught a fair amount of witches - fair number of witches

Well, the general backstory is in mmooch's challenge, the apocalypse'verse. I've added my specific bridge from that story to this in a private review to it; should it go too long, I'll add it as a flashback of one type or another - but it really belongs in the other story.

Willow had to know both the structure and the politics of the society, if she's going to push it in the right direction.

Number, amount, pretty much the same unless you have some really rotund wizards. Nevertheless, your way sounds better. Fixed.

Nice update and a cute ending to the chapter as well. Well, thanks for writing this, bye for now.

Thank you for reading this.

bahahahaha I LOVE IT!!

Thank you, very much.

Heh, fun, silly, and willow can in just a few months time get huge backing from all the squibs of the world apparently. Or at least all those whom share that particular disability.

If she can get in contact with them, yes.

I AM enjoying this, but have some questions.

Would a non-stereotypical 'middle aged' witch be bent over or call someone 'dearie'?

If Agatha thinks Willow's a Slytherin, doesn't she accept Willow rather quickly?

Does Agatha take them to Terri that quickly, or has Willow's 'cure' had some time to work so Agatha feels comfortable enough to take Willow to meet a relative?

"Well, then. I'd best be ringing David up then, shouldn't I?" murmured the Home Secretary. - do you really need the second 'then'?

Well, she's not a witch, she's a squib. I had her bent over because she's a squib, and due to the effect of being one in her society, she's been depressed for quite a while. "Dearie," is just my view of what an older British woman might call a younger one. If I were going to be stereotypical, I'd have the wart on her nose and have her call Willow, "My Pretty."

She thinks that anyone who brings up magic in front of her is boorish in the extreme, and likely a Slytherin purist; I'd guess that many have come by to taunt her before. However, when Willow gets through the wards extremely quickly and without a wand, she suspects that she was wrong - and that Willow is powerful enough that it doesn't matter if she was wrong or not.

Agatha takes Willow to Terri in the time to set up an appointment - a day or two. Willow's basically said that she needs to talk with all of the power players , and Terri says that this is the only way with a reasonable chance of success. Willow has started her meditating, finding her center and her magical core.

I looked at it, but it was the first 'then' that hit the bit bucket. Thank you.

I hope Willow will actually work with Agatha to know what to do. It is all well and good to tell her to pull in power from the Earth, but for her to actually know how to do that? Probably a completely different thing! I, for one, wouldn't have any idea even where to start!

Anyway, good solution to the problem, and I wonder if such a technique would work on pretty much EVERYONE in this world. How ironic would that be, if there really were no such thing as a "muggle" at all. The idea is making my cheeks hurt from grinning so hard, and I sure wish that I had time to write such a story myself. If you want to take the idea (for this story, or another one later) please feel free! I already track everything you post, so I would be sure to get to read it. ☺

Yes, she will. It just hasn't happened because Willow needs to get in touch with the Wizarding World and have them sign on to combat the First Evil.

I'd suspect that it wouldn't work on everyone, but it would vastly increase those who could do magic. If it did work on everyone, there would be a problem, because, as I see it, magical energy is taken from the life-force of the Earth and the creatures on it. If everyone did magic, that force would quickly be drained. Interesting conundrum.