Magic Hotspot

A Magic Hotspot is a place eternally marked with magic when a witch suffers a violent and brutal death. These Magical Hotspots allow witches to tap into the power of the dead witch, or witches, and use as their own. Even if the witch is resurrected, the Hotspot still works.
==Throughout The Vampire Diaries==
===Season Two===
In Know Thy Enemy, after Elijah was daggered and the Martin witches were killed, Bonnie Bennett learned of the hotspot's existence from Jonas before his death. Thanks to Damon Salvatore who knew of the location where the witches died, Bonnie was able to cast a spell allowing her to harness the power of the dead witches.
In As I Lay Dying, Bonnie lost her connection to the hotspot when the spirits of the dead witches left the place after Bonnie pleaded to Emily to resurrect Jeremy Gilbert and to seek out a cure for a werewolf bite.
===Season Three===
In Do Not Go Gentle, Esther tapped into the hotspot of her own death at the Salvatore Crypt in order to channel its power to make Alaric Saltzman the ultimate vampire hunter, so he could kill the Originals along with every other vampire. She first used it to block Bonnie from locating her. Then, she proceeded to use it to perform The Immortality Spell on Alaric and also used it to make the last White Oak Stake indestructible. She was killed there once again by Alaric, marking the spot once more.
===Season Four===
In Growing Pains, the first massacre of the Expression Triangle was performed at Pastor Young's ranch where he blew himself and eleven other Founders Council members up. He was brainwashed into doing it by Atticus Shane.
In O Come, All Ye Faithful, Hayley Marshall prepared the second massacre for Atticus to gain knowledge about her birth parents. The massacre needed to include twelve hybrids. Having broken their sire bonds, Klaus was tricked into slaughtering them all.
In Because the Night, the third and final massacre was after Silas had been awoken from his 2,000 year slumber and manipulated Bonnie to gather twelve Witches in one specific spot. Bonnie had to convince her father that Expression was consuming her and that she needed help getting rid of it. After her mother suggested that she would gather a few friends to help Bonnie they all went to the woods where a full coven of witches performed a spell on Bonnie. The twelve witches liked themselves in order to increase their power, however, Caroline intervenes and is forced to kill Aja, and subsequently her coven, to save Bonnie.
In The Walking Dead, Bonnie links the three hotspots together and channels the Expression Triangle to drop the the Veil to the Other Side, releasing everyone who had died and had unfinished business within the bounds of the triangle. With the Veil down, she intended to use Qetsiyah's blood within Silas' Tombstone to reach out to her.
==Known Hotspots==
*Abandoned Cottage (Emily and Hundred others)
*Mystic Falls Cemetery (Esther - twice)
* Mystic Falls (Expression Triangle - Pastor's Ranch, Lockwood Cellar, Woods)
==Potential Hotspots==
*Bree's Bar (Bree)
* Gloria's Bar (Gloria)
* Petrova House (Katherine's Father and Sister)
* Martin House (Luka Martin)
* Gilbert House (Jonas Martin)
* Steven's Quarry (Greta Martin)
* Tomb (Maddox, Mia)
* Hazel's House (Hazel)
* Travelers' camp (The Sacrificed Travelers)
* Mystic Grill (The Travelers, Markos)
* The Island (Massak)
* Woods (Silas)
* Salvatore Boarding House (Qetsiyah)
* Parker House (Kai's four murdered Siblings)
* Jo and Alaric wedding church (Gemini Coven, Joshua Parker, Josette Parker and Olivia Parker)
* Unknown Warehouse (Esther and Dahlia)
* New Orleans Alley (Madison)
* Impluvium (The Sisters)
==Trivia==
* In Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Freya mentions how sacred ground that's been stained in the blood of the innocent, creates a place of "dark power" which Dahlia prefers.
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries (series)
Category:Locations
Category:Witches
Category:Witchcraft
Category:Supernatural
Category:Rituals