The "Harry Potter" characters belong to JK Rowling, her associates and affiliates. CPT Holdings Inc. and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment own "Bewitched" and "Tabitha". For entertainment purposes only. There. I have spoken.
A/N According to more than one website, Adam was a warlock in "Bewitched" and a mortal in "Tabitha". For this fanfic, he's a mortal. It just works better that way. And all due respect to anyone who disagrees.
The next day, Remus escorted Tabitha to visit Molly Weasley. Tabitha felt comfortable right away in the cozy atmosphere of the Burrow. She knew Molly, of course, due to their mutual involvement in the Order and Tabitha had liked Molly, but hadn't tried to get to know her. The three of them, Remus, Tabitha and Molly sat around the kitchen table and discussed Tabitha's future in England.
"Tabitha, we want you to stay, and we want you to be safe," Remus was saying. "You have strong gifts and you would be a real asset to us. Sirius told you, did he not, that we want to speed up your training--more defense against the Dark arts, primarily?"
"Yes," Tabitha replied. "He said, but he didn't want to push me either way."
"He wouldn't, dear," Molly said, "but we're all concerned we might lose you."
"However," Remus hastened to add, "Everybody would understand if you went back home to your folks. Lovely people, by the way. Especially your Aunt Clara." He winked at her.
Tabitha smiled and rolled her eyes.
"You know, " Molly said, returning the subject to a serious vein, "I went through the same thing you're going through now. When Dumbledore asked me to be in the Order, my first answer was 'no'. Who would be there for the children if something happened to me or to Arthur? I wondered. Dark wizards are dangerous no matter which way you look at it. Dumbledore never pressed."
"What changed your mind?" Tabitha asked. Remus was looking at Molly, too. He had not heard this part of the story before, either.
Molly sighed heavily. "At the end of last school year, a Hogwarts student died. His name was Cedric Diggory, and to make a long story short, Dark Magic killed him. When I saw his father's grief over last summer, I realized; that as real as the danger of joining the Order was, if I didn't act, the next child could be one of my own."
Tabitha decided to stay at Grimmauld Place and life went on. Remus usually escorted her home, Severus would fill in for when Remus was incapacitated, and a couple times Dumbledore himself saw her home. She liked the old man and was grateful for his help, but she knew that she was in serious danger if he was taking time out of his busy schedule just to see her home. Although she did enjoy the company, and she understood the necessity of it in her condition, she chafed at the loss of independence it entailed. She therefore set herself to study defence against the dark arts diligently, wishing she had learned some of this sooner. She was just beginning to learn things the kids were quite skilled at, and for the first time in her life she wished she had had formal magic training. Not that her parents could have forseen all this.
Learning to defend herself against the dark arts was proving to be emotionally draining to Tabitha. Every time she would learn of some new magic horror, she would immediately think of her children and feel a little less secure in her world. But this same fear was a powerful motivator to learn, and quickly. She had never considered herself particularly naive, but she came to realize how sheltered her ubringing was. She was relatively street-smart with regard to muggle dangers, but she never dreamed what the magic world might hold. Samantha had wanted to protect Tabitha's innocence and trust as long as possible, and Endora simply didn't like to talk about anything unpleasant.
Remus had helped her find her patronus. They were both a little surprised to learn what it was, but it worked, and that was the only thing that mattered. Sometimes, however, Remus would look at her funny, a little amused.
Snape, naturally, taught her Occlumency. However, she was a natural-born Occlumens and once he explained the principle, she picked it up instantly. Therefore, he assumed that Legilimency would be just as easy.
Unfortunately, Legilimency was something she had loads of trouble with. She tried to learn, and he tried to teach her, and both of them became more and more frustrated. Tabitha simply couldn't learn to look into the thoughts of another person.
Once she tried to fake it by observing Snape's general body language and trying to extrapolate from there, but it was a miserable failure and Snape got annoyed with her. That lesson ended in a quarrel and she stomped out of the room and he Disaparated in a huff. However, he came back on her next scheduled lesson and acted as if nothing had happened. To the end of her days, however, except for rare and brief successes, the art of Legilimency was out of her reach.