Agatha Harkness and her hastily put together coven should not be on the Witches’ Road. That has nothing to do with the fact it will likely kill them, though. They literally shouldn’t be there because they gained access to the magical realm without a Green Witch. The (maybe-not-so) late Sharon wasn’t a witch. She was just a “random woman with no obvious magical qualities” who “has no business on the Road.” The very fact she was allowed to walk it suggests there was more to Agatha All Along‘s “Mrs. Hart” than her fellow travelers realized. Considering where she’s from, we might know exactly what that was, too: Wanda Maximoff’s Hex might have given everyone in Westview magical witchy powers.
Agatha All Along‘s third episode made clear anyone can be a witch “with training.” Not everyone who possesses powerful magical abilities is born with them. It isn’t necessarily an innate ability. Teen himself is mostly self-trained, which is why he claims he wants to walk the Witches Road.
Yet, none of the powerful witches in Agatha’s coven recognized any inherent witchy powers in Sharon, even though they seemingly would have. Agatha drove in a three-mile radius of Westview to find her coven. She was able to sense their magic, weak as it might be in their current states. If Sharon had trained as a witch and gained even a fraction of actual powers they should have picked up on that.
So how could the Witches Road not only let a non-witch into its realm but let a non-witch fill the role of a Green Witch? The others said a Green Witch was the most important witch when trying to access the Road. It doesn’t make sense.
Of course, nothing about Sharon’s life has made sense for the last few years has because she lives in Westview. She was one of the many people Wanda Maximoff trapped inside her Hex, a magical creation that awed the ancient immensely powerful witch Agatha Harkness. She’d never seen anything like the Hex before. Agatha could barely comprehend how any witch could make something like it.
If someone can learn to become a witch by merely training, what would happen to a person if they were forced to live inside the most powerful magic ever created by a witch? What would that do to them? What would happen to them after spending days and days and days ensnared and immersed in Wanda’s literal magic?
It might very well give them magical witch properties. The kind of powers that would then make it possible for someone to access the Witches’ Road.
We know, even beyond what Agatha said about it, the awesome power of Wanda’s Hex. Passing through it multiple times rewrote Monica Rambeau’s cells and gave her superpowers. But we don’t know what living in the Hex did to a person. They had Wanda’s magic inside their minds while trapped inside her Hex. The Scarlet Witch put them through someone no one else had ever experienced. Not even other witches could know what that would do to someone.
Teen says anyone can be a witch by studying. If that’s true, Wanda might have turned everyone in Westview into a witch via the most painful on-the-job training ever. That would include turning a pleasant little gardener named Sharon into a Green Witch without anyone knowing. Anyone, not anything. The Witches’ Road would have known.
Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist who thinks he could survive the Witches’ Road. You can follow him on Twitter and Bluesky at @burgermike. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings.