In a message dated Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:11:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, rsuitor at cjwrfs.net writes: > Go through with it? Not sure what you mean. Jack is obviously the > only survivor present of all of the previous outcomes - we know he > has always been there, and the only recognitions seem to be by > reputation. Without the wands being switched he is possibly strong > enough to win anyway. As it is he gets a lot of help from the Count > and the Wolfman, and his only effective adversary is - - > himself, > wielding the wrong wand. The story states that the losing side is supposed to be destroyed. Yet that doesn't happen. Not only does he save the world, but the girl and her familiar and they should have been dead. Stacy