Destined for Good

When Spike gets an invitation to teach Defence at Hogwarts and leaves for Hogwarts, Giles is left with the choice to continue lying to the Scoobies or to tell the truth as Angel advises him. Giles decides to tell the truth, and many old secrets resurface.``Voldemort is back, although the Death-Eaters are careful not to alarm the Wizarding World of their return until they’re strong enough.``Then there’s the other problem: comatose people are turning up in LA, Sunnydale and the ring of small cities around Sunnydale after Halloween – where, during the party at the Bronze, a new Big Bad makes its presence known.``Finally, to make matters even worse, the return of Angelus is hanging in the air.

Buffy and Dawn cross several lines, and fights break out. Anya gives the true historical beginnings of Hogwarts (managing to sound quite like Binns when she does), and finds out about Dawn's little shoplifting problems.

It's Dawn's birthday, and after a mostly disasterless party, the entire gang goes to Park's Way Center, a magical town hidden in LA, for some shopping and some thinking.