I have only read *Over Sea Under Stone* and *The Dark is Rising* so far, so if this question is answered in a later book in the sequence, I apologise for my impatience. I am going to start the next book soon but this question has been nagging me. **Please do not give any spoilers for the books in the sequence beyond** ***The Dark is Rising***.
Was Maggie Barnes actually >!an innocent girl who was possessed and turned into an agent of the Dark? Or was she a creation of the Dark from the start? In the book we only hear that she left the Dawson farm, and no more is said about her. We know that the Dark can impersonate people (their voices at least, like Will’s mother’s voice) so I wasn’t sure if the real innocent Maggie would be freed from the Dark and eventually come back, or if there was no real innocent Maggie to begin with.!<
(Please note that I am only asking about Maggie Barnes in the original book by Susan Cooper, not the character in the movie *The Seeker* which was very loosely based on the book. I am aware that the movie’s version of Maggie has a very different role than in the book.)
by milly_toons