I like xander's attitude with this power. The way of getting back at Ethan was Juvinile, but it worked. Now, lets see what the Ripper can do to help him with improving his abilities, or is a viist to Hogwarts in the future for Xander?

Very good even though eventually they might start to forgive her after all they forgave several people for doing horrible things. Annayaka when she went back to a demon, the stupid git andrew, spike, angel, wesely and a few others.
But she's going to have to work hard at it though.

Nice update evil cliffhanger. Keep up the good work thanks and bye.

Willow, Willow, Willow her & magic, not good. The scenes with Willow were really exceptional. Does being a Wizard mean that you recover from drinking 24/7 awfully fast? Slowly everything to coming together. All the players are nearly in position. Can't wait to read what happens next. Thankyou for the chapter.

willow, willow, willow.

This is a chapter full of harshness and such. Good writing though

yeah normally I ignore Willow most of the time, but I think I'm not to far off with what she did here in the time frame. Considering that even in canon she always thought she knew best (just see what she did to Tara)

Hope for more soon and Willow out of control is a given with her thinking she knows better then others. Question: Angel is out of the picture, then what about the powers plan and what happens when Xander shows up in Harry's world?

The powers plans about Angel are screwed now...hm maybe, John Doe, Jim Beam or Johnny Walker will take over the job in LA now, but in the end this isn't about the Angel series (which I personally didn't find that good) and what happens when Xander gets to England? We will start to see next chapter.

Awesome!

I'm guessing that this chapter can be classified as a Willow Bashing chapter?

And a Harry/Hermione pairing at the end? Very nice. :)

I wouldn't call it a Willow bashing chapter, it does not go that far. This just uses her lack of skill at this point and her desire for Xander to push beyond her boundaries. She wants Xander and nothing will get in her way, magic to her was the answer and she ignored the wrongness of what she was doing. (razial)

Yeah and I don't think we are wrong here with how we let her act, just look at what she did in cannon with Tara (mind rape). (Hawklan)

The Hellmouth goes to Harry. Cannot wait to read what they think of his childhood. Didn't see Tony Harris coming into the plot like that. Great surprise! Looking forward to reading what his involvement in the story will be. Await with glee how they deal with Dumbles. Is Snape going to be good or bad? Looking forward to all this & more.

Great chapter. Keep up the good work.

I like what you and Razial have done so far with the story and I am looking forward to read more soon.


::Gives the plot bunny a slice of Chocolate Apple Pie::

# = # = # = # = # = # = #
Neither fire nor wind,
birth nor death can
erase our good deeds.
- Buddha
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So very well done!

ooohhhhh! good update! and i SO didnt see Xander's dad coming with being a death eater and all!

Interesting story. Thanks for writing.

I think this is a good concept for a story, but so far the execution is turning it into a mangled mess as a result of poor or non-existent temporal continuity.

The story begins, predictably on Oct. 31, 1997, then jumps ahead to mid December when Xander finally tells Giles and then the others about his keeping Dumbledores magic. Also at this time you throw out a scene of Harry in Surrey when he should still be in Hogwarts. Then we get to the scenes that start at Joyces' Gallery and ends up at her house which is supposed to take place just a few short weeks since Xander reveled his magic, meaning they happen sometime between shortly after New Years and Buffy's birthday in January. Yet apparently, the school year suddenly lost the last 4 and half months as they plan to make the move to the UK to find Harry in the next week. Oh, and early to mid January in Sunnydale occurs at the same time as late May / early June in Hogwarts.

Not to mention you implied Dumbledore was dead in the early chapters and that Xander was going over to pick up the pieces resulting from his manipulations. Now you add a scene indicating it's the end of 4th year with the tri-wizard fiasco and Dumbledore is still alive.

This is just a plain mess. You need to take a step back and plot out what and WHEN events are supposed to happen. Once that is complete, you need to rewrite everything so if fits with your time line.

Like I said, I like this concept. I especially enjoy the interactions between Xander and Buffy with Angel now being relegated to looking in from the outside. You've added a lot of crossover potential with the additional characters you had show up at the Gallery and would like to see where you take it. So please take a step back and think things through before the next chapter.

Ok, where did I imply that Dumbles was dead? Couldn't find that part.

Why Harry was at home in December was shortly mentioned a chapter later.

the scene at the Gallery should have been quite a bit later then you say, but I have to recheck that, can't say so out of hand without rereading.

Tx for commenting.