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HOW DID I MISS THIS POST.

I'm just sitting here beaming. Still Royal Wizard. Two Royal Wizards, just like we said.

(This is not the way I would have picked for Howl to express his desire for a second childhood, but it works. Of course it works; DWJ wrote it. It's ridiculous in the extreme, but when does he do anything by half? Never. He's such an opportunist.)

I actually didn't mind the evil lubbockin children concept too much. Her world and its inhabitants are so succinctly drawn for the most part that I don't mind. Her bad characters are bad; her good ones are good. Howl, terrible penmanship and all (and no wonder I couldn't make his handwriting better on that card he sent to Sophie), is still good despite having a penchant for being bad, but that goes along with the whole wizardry thing. Mrs. Pentstemmon said so, and did you catch her book in the beginning? I'm rereading with Hannah now and if as they say the devil is in the details, then DWJ wins the prize for best detail inserts in any book series ever written, and she does it consistently with every series she creates.