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HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE


Sophie is the oldest of three daughters living in the magical kingdom of Ingary , where many fairy-tale tropes are accepted ways of life. When Sophie's father dies, her Step-mother Fanny sets her to making the hats in the family hat shop. Sophie, being the eldest, is Tabooed that she'll always fail at everything she does, and accepts her doomed fate.

When the Witch Of The Waste gets jealous of her Magic talents (which Sophie is completely unaware of), she turns Sophie into an old woman. Sophie becomes more confident as an old woman and changes from being a church mouse of a girl into a stubborn and brave woman. Her new confidence takes her to the moving castle above Market Chipping run by Wizard Howl . Howl is said to suck the souls out of young girls and eat the hearts of beautiful ones. No longer seeing this as a threat to her person, Sophie enters the castle and takes the job as his cleaning lady.

While there she meets Calcifer , the fire demon and learns of a contract the binds Howl and the demon together. The demon promises to break the spell on Sophie if she frees him from the contract with Howl. Occasionally, Calcifer drops Sophie hints to how to break the contract, though she often misses them.

When the King's brother, Prince Justin, goes missing whilst in search of Wizard Suliman, the King wishes Howl to find them both and kill the Witch of the Waste. Howl attempts to weasel out of it by having Sophie, pretending to be his mother, petition against the appointment, but to no avail. Howl happens to have his own reasons for avoiding the Witch of the Waste; the witch happens to be one of Howl's many ex-lovers. Sophie soon learns that Howl is not so much a wicked wizard as he is a Playboy , who takes joy in making young girls fall in love with him and then ditch them once they do.

Howl, like Sophie, has been Cursed by the Witch of the Waste and made so he can never fall in love, but when he does the Witch can take his heart for herself and kill him. Howl falls in love with Sophie and when the Witch takes her hostage, he fights the Witch of the Waste, fighting his reluctance to do so, and wins.

However, the Witch's own fire demon tries to take Howl's heart to become more powerful. Sophie is able to stop the demon as she turns out to be a witch with life-giving abilities. Using this ability to give Calcifer one thousand more years of life, she breaks the contract between Calcifer and Howl and returns Howl's heart. By defeating the Witch and giving Howl back his heart, Sophie is able to break the curse and free both Wizard Suliman and Prince Justin. She turns back to her original age and she falls in love with Howl.


CASTLE IN THE AIR


In ''Castle in the Air'', Sophie and Howl are married and have a son together, Morgan. Both Sophie and Morgan have been turned into cats by Howl to protect them from Djinn who have stolen the moving castle. They meet the new protagonist, Abdullah who has lost his true love, Flower-in-the-Night, to a djinn and a strange soldier. While the soldier takes a liking to Sophie as a cat and names her "Midnight", Abdullah hates her and even becomes terrified of her strange magic.

Once Abdullah reaches Ingary in his quest to find Flower-in-the-Night, he learns who Sophie really is and Wizard Suliman turns her back into herself. However, the soldier runs away to the moving castle, taking Abdullah's genie and Sophie's baby with him. Abdullah and Sophie take a Magic Carpet to the castle and discover that the djinns have kidnapped all the princesses from around the world including Ingary's princess, Valeria, and Flower-in-the-Night. After finding the two princesses and Morgan, Valeria burst into tears from the stress of being kidnapped, but calms down the moment she sees Sophie.

With the help of the other princesses, Abdullah, Sophie, Flower-in-the-Night and the moody Genie, they manage to trick the djinns and take back the castle. Sophie and Morgan are both reunited with Howl (who was the Genie) and Calcifer (who was the magic carpet).


MAGICAL TALENTS


Sophie discovers she is a witch and has a very special magical talent. She can talk things into coming to life, or doing what she wants. During the book she manages to:

''Howl's Moving Castle''

  • "You’re as young as a spring leaf," Sophie says. Mayor’s wife buys the hat and looks like a schoolgirl.

  • "You have a heart of gold and someone in a high position will fall in love with you," Sophie says. Jane Farrier buys the hat and runs off with the Count of Catterack.

  • "You’re going to have to marry money," Sophie says. Fanny wears that hat and she married Mr. Smith, a very rich man.

  • She talks life into the scarecrow.

  • She talks life into her stick.

  • She talks life into the human skull on the bench.

  • She charms Howl’s grey and scarlet suit, saying that it will attract many women and probably incur the wrath of an aunt. She accidently does the same with his blue and silver suit.

  • She talks seeds into growing into strange flowers and flowers to stay fresh longer

  • Her anger causes some flowers in water to turn into weed-killer.


''Castle in the Air''

  • Changes herself into a larger cat, to scare Abdullah in her cat form.

  • Orders for oxygen to allow her to breathe better, when travelling upward to the moving castle.

  • Stops sound from passing through the walls, when she and the others are plotting their escape.

  • Trebles the sound of Morgan's cries, to startle the djinns.