Hello I had a few questions about your wonderful story. I have dyslexia so reading doesn't always come easy for me though writing is easier. I have tried to follow as best as I can but a few things were confusing or maybe I miss understood.

What year does this take place for Harry? 5th year, 6th year?

Where is Harry at this current time? It seems he is not much in this story from what I have read. That's cool but I was wondering.

Is Harry aware of everything going around him concerning the war effort with the Watcher's Council or are the adults keeping him in the dark as usual.

How long has been the time frame from the first chapter until this last one?

Are Dawn and Conner dating or is she dating Draco?

I hope these questions are not to much to answer. I do look forward to hearing from you. Thanks and take care.

Hey, I don't mind answering questions at all. The story is difficult enough to follow as is, I think (especially with the one-chapter-at-a-time updating model). To be honest, I'm constatly going back and re-reading bits of previous chapters to make sure I've got things straight in my own mind. Well, might as well answer your questions in order then:

The story starts in mid-July, just after Harry's 6th year. The chapter you've just finished reading took place on August 24th.

Right now, Harry is still at Hogwarts. He hasn't been in the story much, because he, Ron and Hermione have spent most of their time researching about horcruxes and how to find and destroy them, which, quite frankly, isn't all that interesting. I mean, they've had their shining moments, but only when they did something of interest.

Honestly, I haven't quite decided how much the adults are telling Harry about the joint effort with the Watcher's Council. Although, at this exact point in time, Harry would be in the Hogwarts infirmary after that spell Willow was casting basically attacked him. Also, after they broke their promise to stay put at Hogwarts during the summer, the kids are just a little bit grounded.

It's been just over a month between chapter one and the last one (maybe a month and a half: the first couple of chapters weren't quite as precisely dated).

Dawn's not dating anyone at the moment. Although she may be developing a slight crush on Charlie Weasley...

Hope that cleared things up! =D I'm really glad you're enjoying the story!

Hi, I have only just discovered this story & am loving it so far, & I am really looking forward to reading where it is heading. One minor point, the prime minister in HBP is clearly meant to be John Major, he had been PM for a while, & is reaching the end of his tether. The time also matches up as the start of HBP is in the summer of 1996 & Major was still PM, the next election was 1997 when the Labour Party won & Blair became PM.
Cheers & good luck with the rest of the story.

Oh really? I didn't realize J.K. modelled her PM after the real one. Thanks for that bit of trivia! Now, even if I had known that when I started writing his bits, I likely would've just done what I did here and basically built my own character out of him, since I feel uncomfortable with the idea of writing real people into a fan fiction. You will notice later on that I use a completely made up person for the US president too.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of the story!

Good chapter! glad they outed fake-Tonks. Wonder what will happen to whoever-it-is? Hope it's suitably nasty.

Yes, there is a pub in Avebury--the Red Lion.

The Red Lion? Cool, thanks for confirming that for me! Glad you liked the chapter!

And if they thought Moody was hard on spies and traitors they have no idea how Buffy, Spike, Ripper and Willow respond to them! Can't wait for the Queen and her court to remove the scum

Er.... yes they are definitely the LAST people any traitor would want to deal with (especially Spike, since he has absolutely no problems with getting his hands dirty). Although, in this case, Moody and Remus might actually be scarier since they actually knew the real Tonks and cared for her, so it's more personal.

Great chapter. Funnily enough jeremy clarkson lives near there. Keep up the goo work.

Lol, really? Well, as long as he doesn't live directly in Avebury, he should be safe. Glad you enjoyed the chapter!

Excellent update! And I'm very glad to be hearing from you so soon.

Thanks! Although, I must confess, I've actually been sitting on this chapter for the past two weeks... I mean, this way you guys get an update still fairly quickly and it's two weeks less waiting time with no new chapter!

Excellent chapter. It's a pleasure to 'watch' the interactions between these disparate characters.

Too bad they haven't got their hands on some decent-power lasers to use against vamps and inferi.

Definitely looking forward to more.

=D Watching interactions between characters, especially from two different groups like this is my favourite part of any story. Which is why there's so much of it in this one (one could probably easily argue there's too much of it, but I like it, so it's staying). Lasers would be cool... 'tis unfortunate I can't add a random third crossover with a science fiction show of some sort in order to give them lasers.

Thanks for reviewing! More will come this weekend.

Great chapter. Keep up the good work.

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it!

Aaaahh! I don't know whether I want to hug you for giving me another wonderful story to enjoy, or shake you for having to wait for a new chapter...:) Definitely leaning more toward the hugging though. What an adventure, it is virtually seamless and there's no Mary-Sue-ing! :D

I'll take the hug please. =)
Thanks for the review! I'm glad you're enjoying the ride. And that my original characters don't feel fake (because, let's face it, that's usually why a character gets called a Mary Sue, 'cause they don't feel real).

Awesome, awesome chapter. I loved the action, the intrigue, the little glimpses into characters' personalities... And thanks for the explanation of the prophecy. Makes things a little clearer :) I am excited to see what comes next! And I'm curious about why the Dragon motif is used. Should be fun! Thanks for writing.

It'll take a while for the Dragon motif to become completely clear, but I'm glad the prophecy explanations are useful. As with any prophecy the Buffy gang have ever dealt with, it doesn't make sense right away. And, in fact, this prophecy couldn't make sense right away, because it needed both the Wizards and the Watcher's Council to come together first (had a reviewer on another site tell me the prophecy was stupid because it didn't make sense and I just felt like going 'well, duh, it's a prophecy').

Glad you're enjoying the story, in any case. Thanks for reviewing!

This version of the death of Severus Snape rings very true.

This is a hell of a tale.

Thanks! Personally, I prefer this version to the official one; somehow, I think he deserved to go out on his own terms so to speak (not that any of us ever get to choose our own deaths, but his death in the books just seemed kinda random and pointless). Glad you're enjoying the story!

Damn I read the clue about Tonks' scent being off and for a minute I thought polyjuice, but then I got distracted by other things, I so should have known that! I kinda like Snape he'd like a weird blend of Angel and Spike with a major depressive disorder. So, Moldybuttcrack is gonna pull a giant snake bit is he??? LOL, evil should really talk about crap before hand, he's gonna do this bit while the only living folks who've ever defeated an Ascension are in his backyard can you get any dumber??? Come on even Dru had more sense than that ... then again the guy has the goal of being a giant snake ... what is his problem he's so small he has to turn his whole body into a snake?

The story is brilliant in my opinion! Evil is just so very very dumb!!!! My grandmother once made the comment that "boys hangout with snakes cause they haven't figured out the sweat socks are safer in their pants" the more Voldyknickers makes with his sad little evil plans the more I wonder if someone forgot to tell him about sweat socks and some snake bit off his little pretend friend.

*snicker* You know, the scent thing was entirely meant to get lost in the shuffle. Didn't want it to become apparent too soon that Tonks wasn't Tonks, yet make sure that, in retrospect, everyone would go 'oh my gosh, that's right!'. Lol, love that description of Snape! Snape is probably hand's down my favourite character in the books, which is why, when I knew I was going to have to kill him, I decided I'd do it with style.

In Voldemort's defence, he doesn't actually know Buffy and the gang have seen an ascension before. Keep in mind that the Circle of the Black Thorne aren't exactly telling him everything they know and pretend-Tonks left that meeting before they'd figured that bit out. In fact, that's entirely why there was a random death eater sighting, so that Tonks would have to leave and not hear the Watcher's Council people figure it out.

I'm glad you're enjoying this story! Thanks for reviewing!

Very orginal. I'm sad to see Snape die too, but I least he went out with a bang. Excellent update!

See, that's what I thought! I honestly didn't see a feasible way for Snape to get out alive at this point; he's in too deep and seems like the sort of person, who'd stick it out until the very last possible moment when he knew 110% he'd been found out - by which point it'd be too late for him to get out. But he also wouldn't particularly like the idea of getting tortured... hence, magical cyanide pill.

Thanks for reviewing!

I think you could totally still use that idea if you want. plus you could have Faith subconsiously(given you used Wilkins and the power's implanting dream) store the books of acencsion somewhere in LA or maybe Wilkins, between Choices(the episode Willow caught a glance at the books in) and Graduation Day Part One, had Faith store them in a safe house somewhere in LA. Just a thought that if you don't have the full story completely written out that you could totally tie in if you want.

Hm, okay, thanks, I'll keep it in mind if I get stuck. At this point though, I don't think any of them would have time to go retrieve them (I suppose it would give Faith something to do though...). Things are going to start happening really fast from here on. Slight hint: Severus did say that the mystery potion he's been working on will be completed in 2 days.

Fun, fun. I liked the interesting tie to Wilkins so will they maybe find out that Dick left everything to Faith including the books of acention which he had stored away somewhere in case of his dimise.

Can't wait for more.

Lol, yeah, I feel like I'm finally able to point to all the clues I'd scattered around. Hmm, the books of ascension hadn't even occured to me to have been left with Faith... see, even if they had, the problem with that would be that everything in Sunnydale is now gone. Although, I suppose Faith could've taken them and stored them somewhere else... Damn, I wish I'd thought of this!

Anyway, thanks for reviewing!