Amy Madison

Played by Elizabeth Anne Allen

INFORMATION

Amy Madison’s father left the family home, calling his wife Catherine a witch. He left Amy with her mother, and Amy realised that her father’s words were truthful: Catherine Madison possessed the ability to harness the black magicks and in 1997, confronted Amy with her desire to become a cheerleader. Amy had no such compulsion, so Catherine used her magick to swap bodies with Amy so that she could relive her glory days as head cheerleader of Sunnydale High. When she began to use her magick to harm the other competitors that stood in her way, Catherine drew the unwanted attentions of Buffy, who discovered the truth. In a heated battle with Catherine, the spell was reversed and Catherine disappeared into an unknown prison where she would forever be contained. Amy moved in with her father, and soon developed an interest in witchcraft herself. She was a powerful witch, and aided Xander in a love spell a year later which almost killed both him and Cordelia and set the female population against each other in a desperate urge to seduce the young man. A year later, Amy became a target of a demon masquerading as two murdered children and to prevent being burned at the stake, Amy transformed herself into a rat. Unfortunately, the fledgling Willow was unable to use her own magicks to restore Amy to human form. It took Willow three years to finally transform Amy back to her normal self. Angry with Willow for failing to restore her, Amy turned against her and began to fuel Willow’s growing addiction to magick by introducing her to Rack, a powerful warlock who dealt with dark magick. Amy became quite skilled in the black arts and hexed Willow, causing Willow to choose the form of her punishment for ‘squandering’ her abilities when she tried to destroy the world. Amy’s plot was discovered by Kennedy, but before the Potential Slayer could confront the jealous witch, Amy transported her away. It is unknown how Amy knew details of Willow’s recent activity: presumably she had been spying on the witch since she left her side a year earlier. Afterwards, Amy presumably left Sunnydale before it was destroyed.

APPEARANCES: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON ONE