Agatha Harkness (Earth-199999)

**Agatha Harkness** is a witch from Salem, Massachusetts, who was accused of practicing dark magic by her own coven during the Salem witch trials.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

#### Former Powers

**Sorcery:** Harkness is a very powerful witch capable of manipulating magic for a variety of effects, such as casting spells and manipulating matter. Her mystic power manifested as a luminescent purple mist or vapor mixed with black smoke. According to her, some of her dark powers took years of study to master. After obtaining the Darkhold, Harkness used it to amplify her powers, which enhanced several of her spells allowing her to be unnoticed by other witches, like Wanda Maximoff.

* **Longevity:** After absorbing the magic from the witches of her own coven, Harkness was able to live far beyond a normal human lifespan, having survived for at least 325 years.
* **Energy Manipulation:** Harkness was able to shape her dark and mystical energy into tangible constructs and utilize it in various ways. When initially confronting Maximoff, she conjured magical bindings around her wrists and ankles to restrain her. Similarly, she was able to conjure magical strings to hold Billy and Tommy Maximoff by their necks.
	+ **Telekinesis:** Harkness has demonstrated the ability to control matter as well as energy and was able to close a door with a single movement of her fingers as well as break energy binds placed on her by her coven during her trial. During her confrontation with Maximoff, she lifted several S.W.O.R.D. operatives a few stories into the air, outlining them with purple energy, before dropping them and letting Maximoff catch them with her own power.
		- **Flight:** Harkness arrived flying to Westview. After being knocked over by Maximoff's energy blast, she was able to raise herself back onto her feet. She was able to fly at length during her confrontation against Maximoff, and even managed to remain floating in the air despite the runes created by Maximoff which had rendered Harkness' other magical attacks ineffective.
	+ **Energy Absorption:** When Harkness was on trial, she demonstrated that she was capable of corrupting the magic from the witches of her own coven, effectively siphoning their energies and killing them. Her abilities allowed her to absorb and convert Chaos Magic from Maximoff into her dark magic while simultaneously draining Maximoff's body of life each time she was directly attacked by Maximoff with her powers, allowing her to not only withstand Maximoff's attacks but gain strength from them instead.
	+ **Energy Blasts:** Harkness could project powerful bolts and blasts of purple mystical energy from her hands. After absorbing the Chaos Magic from Maximoff's energy bolts, she was able to fire projectiles made of Chaos Magic and her dark magic combined.
* **Energy Detection:** Harkness was initially drawn to the Westview Anomaly after sensing the afterglow of its complex network of spells.
* **Mental Manipulation:** Harkness' magic allows her to interact with and control the minds of others. She was able to make Herb, her neighbor, go along with her plan in confusing Vision. She was also able to control her pet rabbit and take control of a cicada with an incantation while demonstrating magic to Maximoff. She was able to project images of her exploits within Westview into Maximoff's mind and, when inside an illusory recreation of Maximoff's memories, was able to cause Maximoff to directly relive the experiences as well as pull her out of them at will. When Maximoff tried to trap her in an illusion of her trial by her coven, Harkness was able to turn the illusion against her, causing the corpses of her fellow witches to attack and briefly subdue Maximoff.
* **Telepathic Resistance:** Harkness is able to resist telepathic intrusion and reality manipulation to a degree, as she was able to live inside the Westview Anomaly without it truly changing her or affecting her mind. Additionally, neither Billy nor Wanda Maximoff were able to sense her thoughts, with the latter's attempts to trap Harkness in an illusion failing to harm or restrain her, as Harkness simply took control over it away from Maximoff.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** Harkness was able to cause Maximoff to relive her memories using magic via a piece of her hair, which aided her in creating an illusory space inside a compartment of her basement lair that could realistically simulate events and locations from Maximoff's past.
* **Matter Transmutation:** Harkness was able to change her appearance and witch costume for that of a normal neighbor. She was also able to change a cicada into a bird and back. In her witch form, Harkness' fingers turn black.
* **Enchantment:** Harkness was capable of imbuing objects with supernatural powers, notably creating an enchanted necklace with a crystallum possession spell that allowed her to control Ralph Bohner, giving him the personality of a false Pietro Maximoff, as well as simulating the real Pietro's super speed. Additionally, the roots surrounding her basement lair were infused with her dark magic, as seen by Monica Rambeau.
* **Necromancy:** Harkness considered animating the body of Pietro Maximoff as an attempt to get close to Wanda, but declined the option due to it being on another continent and heavily damaged.
* **Teleportation:** Harkness had the ability to teleport herself and others, leaving a distinctive purple energy each time she used this ability. She was able to teleport from within the Vision Residence to the street and at the same time bring Billy and Tommy from the basement of her house.
* **Conjuration:** Harkness was capable of causing the Darkhold to materialize out of a small purple portal to read the description of Maximoff's future as the Scarlet Witch before sending it back through it.
* **Spell Casting:** Using a basic protection spell via magic runes on the walls of the structure beneath her house, Harkness was able to neutralize Maximoff's Chaos Magic. As she explained to Maximoff, only the person who cast this spell can use magic in the radius of the protection spell's range.

### Abilities

**Strategy and Tactics:** Harkness was able to manipulate events within the Westview Anomaly for at least a week, right down to the plots of the sitcom, all while pretending to be enthralled by Wanda Maximoff and hiding her true nature.

**Multilingualism:** Harkness is fluent in English as well as Latin when she performs magical spells that require incantations.

## Equipment

### Former Equipment

**Darkhold:** As a master of the dark arts, Harkness eventually obtained the Darkhold, which she used as an amplification totem for her powers. Harkness leanred of the Scarlet Witch myth thanks to the book. She lost it to Wanda Maximoff.