THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
A book by C. S. Lewis, in which children walk through the back of a wardrobe and discover Narnia, a country in a world of magic. An evil witch rules over Narnia, having cast a spell of eternal winter. Aslan the lion fights to break the spell and to re-empower the land and its inhabitants.
Willow refers to the book in her dream in “Restless.”
WILLOW: My book report. This summer I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
XANDER: Oh, who cares?
WILLOW: This book has many themes.
Here Willow is speaking in a school classroom. Her friends are ridiculing her, she feels insecure, is dressed as her younger self and is referring to a book for children. However, the book’s themes, such as mystical resurrection after death, and black v. white magic, are to become relevant to her older self in Season Six and Season Seven.