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I just wanted to add that this book is also the loophole book. If anything could undo the events at the end of The Silver on the Tree, it's the events of Greenwitch. It establishes that the Wild Magic is outside the scope of the Dark and the Light and not bound or beholden to them, and that it is the force by which birds flock and fish school and so on, and it is therefore intrinsic to the world and not apart from it. The Dark and the Light cannot stand before it, but a young girl may be touched by it, and influence it, and be a part of its gestation and transformation, and be translated by it. Were I going to fic TDiR (though I know I never will), I would start here, because the Greenwitch would not care why Jane had lost her memory, and the making ceremony might conceivably draw Jane back because she has been altered by experiencing it, and time is meaningless to the Wild Magic in any case. I'd undo the end of SontT by making Jane the Greenwitch. Possibly. Probably. Though I do understand the reason for the Thing at the End of the series.

The other loophole, of course, is in The Grey King, at the end of the riddle challenge, when Merriman hints that the Light has a contingency plan in the event it loses. These two things together suggest that the Greenwitch, and Jane, and Barney - though never explicitly Simon - are part of that contingency. In my opinion, anyway. Ugh. Now I must reread them all again (again).