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Howl's moving castle
In
the
land
of
Ingary
,
where
such
things
as
seven
-
league
boots
and
cloaks
of
invisibility
really
exist
,
it
is
quite
a
misfortune
to
be
born
the
eldest
of
three
.
Everyone
knows
you
are
the
one
who
will
fail
first
,
and
worst
,
if
the
three
of
you
set
out
to
seek
your
fortunes
.
Sophie
Hatter
was
the
eldest
of
three
sisters
.
She
was
not
even
the
child
of
a
poor
woodcutter
,
which
might
have
given
her
some
chance
of
success
.
Her
parents
were
well
to
do
and
kept
a
ladies
’
hat
shop
in
the
prosperous
town
of
Market
Chipping
.
True
,
her
own
mother
died
when
Sophie
was
just
two
years
old
and
her
sister
Lettie
was
one
year
old
,
and
their
father
married
his
youngest
shop
assistant
,
a
pretty
blonde
girl
called
Fanny
.
Fanny
shortly
gave
birth
to
the
third
sister
,
Martha
.
This
ought
to
have
made
Sophie
and
Lettie
into
Ugly
Sisters
,
but
in
fact
all
three
girls
grew
up
very
pretty
indeed
,
though
Lettie
was
the
one
everyone
said
was
most
beautiful
.
Fanny
treated
all
three
girls
with
the
same
kindness
and
did
not
favor
Martha
in
the
least
.
Mr
.
Hatter
was
proud
of
his
three
daughters
and
sent
them
all
to
the
best
school
in
town
.
Sophie
was
the
most
studious
.
She
read
a
great
deal
,
and
very
soon
realized
how
little
chance
she
had
of
an
interesting
future
.
It
was
a
disappointment
to
her
,
but
she
was
still
happy
enough
,
looking
after
her
sisters
and
grooming
Martha
to
seek
her
fortune
when
the
time
came
.
Since
Fanny
was
always
busy
in
the
shop
,
Sophie
was
the
one
who
looked
after
the
younger
two
.
There
was
a
certain
amount
of
screaming
and
hair
-
pulling
between
those
younger
two
.
Lettie
was
by
no
means
resigned
to
being
the
one
who
,
next
to
Sophie
,
was
bound
to
be
the
least
successful
.
“
It
’
s
not
fair
!
”
Lettie
would
shout
.
“
Why
should
Martha
have
the
best
of
it
just
because
she
was
born
the
youngest
?
I
shall
marry
a
prince
,
so
there
!
”
To
which
Martha
always
retorted
that
she
would
end
up
disgustingly
rich
without
having
to
marry
anybody
.
Then
Sophie
would
have
to
drag
them
apart
and
mend
their
clothes
.
She
was
very
deft
with
her
needle
.
As
time
went
on
,
she
made
clothes
for
her
sisters
too
.
There
was
one
deep
rose
outfit
she
made
for
Lettie
,
the
May
Day
before
this
story
really
starts
,
which
Fanny
said
looked
as
if
it
had
come
from
the
most
expensive
shop
in
Kingsbury
.
About
this
time
everyone
began
talking
of
the
Witch
of
the
Waste
again
.
It
was
said
that
the
Witch
had
threatened
the
life
of
the
King
’
s
daughter
and
that
the
King
had
commanded
his
personal
magician
,
Wizard
Suliman
,
to
go
into
the
Waste
and
deal
with
the
Witch
.
And
it
seemed
that
Wizard
Suliman
had
not
only
failed
to
deal
with
the
Witch
:
he
had
got
himself
killed
by
her
.
So
when
,
a
few
months
after
that
,
a
tall
black
castle
suddenly
appeared
on
the
hills
above
Market
Chipping
,
blowing
clouds
of
black
smoke
from
its
four
tall
,
thin
turrets
,
everybody
was
fairly
sure
that
the
Witch
had
moved
out
of
the
Waste
again
and
was
about
to
terrorize
the
country
the
way
she
used
to
fifty
years
ago
.
People
got
very
scared
indeed
.
Nobody
went
out
alone
,
particularly
,
at
night
.
What
made
it
all
the
scarier
was
that
the
castle
did
not
stay
in
the
same
place
.
