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The Witch of the Waste
At first, Miss Angorian appears as Neil’s new English teacher in Wales—but really, she’s the Witch of the Waste’s fire demon. She’s a beautiful young woman, with shiny black hair, olive skin, and big eyes. She’s sharp, cold, and rejects Howl’s romantic advances, insisting instead that she’s still devoted to Ben Sullivan, her missing fiancé. For her part, Sophie fully believes that Howl is courting Miss Angorian and in love with her. However, it eventually comes out that anything to do with Miss Angorian’s love life is a lie. The Witch of the Waste and her fire demon have a similar contract as Howl and Calcifer, wherein the fire demon is kept alive because it has access to the Witch’s heart. Howl discovers that rather than this being an equal partnership, Miss Angorian has been in control of the Witch for some time—and Miss Angorian plans to kill the Witch and enter into a new contract with a perfect human she’s constructed from various parts of Howl, Prince Justin, and Wizard Suliman. Though she successfully kills the witch, Howl ultimately kills Miss Angorian by crushing the Witch’s heart.
Miss Angorian Quotes in Howl’s Moving Castle
The Howl’s Moving Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Angorian or refer to Miss Angorian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Eighteen
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“And don’t you dare tell Howl she was here!” she said unreasonably to Calcifer. “I bet she came to see Howl. The rest was just a pack of lies. Wizard Suliman was settled here, years ago. He probably came to get away from her beastly throbbing voice!”
Calcifer chuckled. “I’ve never seen anyone got rid of so fast!” he said.
This made Sophie feel both unkind and guilty. After all, she herself had walked into the castle in much the same way, and she had been twice as nosy as Miss Angorian.
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Chapter Twenty-One
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Sophie raised her stick, slowly and gently. This time she thought for an instant before she acted. “Stick,” she muttered. “Beat Miss Angorian, but don’t hurt anyone else.” Then she swung the stick and hit Miss Angorian’s tight knuckles the biggest crack she could.
Miss Angorian let out a squealing hiss like a wet log burning and dropped Calcifer. Poor Calcifer rolled helplessly on the floor, flaming sideways across the flagstones and roaring huskily with terror. Miss Angorian raised a foot to stamp on him. Sophie had to let go of her stick and dive to rescue Calcifer. Her stick, to her surprise, hit Miss Angorian again on its own, and again, and again. But of course it would! Sophie thought. She had talked life into that stick.
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He stood up in a hurry. He held out one hand and spoke a sentence of those words that lost themselves in claps of thunder. Plaster fell from the ceiling. Everything trembled. But the stick vanished and Howl stepped back with a small, hard, black thing in his hand.
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Miss Angorian Quotes in Howl’s Moving Castle
The Howl’s Moving Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Angorian or refer to Miss Angorian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Eighteen
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“And don’t you dare tell Howl she was here!” she said unreasonably to Calcifer. “I bet she came to see Howl. The rest was just a pack of lies. Wizard Suliman was settled here, years ago. He probably came to get away from her beastly throbbing voice!”
Calcifer chuckled. “I’ve never seen anyone got rid of so fast!” he said.
This made Sophie feel both unkind and guilty. After all, she herself had walked into the castle in much the same way, and she had been twice as nosy as Miss Angorian.
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Chapter Twenty-One
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Sophie raised her stick, slowly and gently. This time she thought for an instant before she acted. “Stick,” she muttered. “Beat Miss Angorian, but don’t hurt anyone else.” Then she swung the stick and hit Miss Angorian’s tight knuckles the biggest crack she could.
Miss Angorian let out a squealing hiss like a wet log burning and dropped Calcifer. Poor Calcifer rolled helplessly on the floor, flaming sideways across the flagstones and roaring huskily with terror. Miss Angorian raised a foot to stamp on him. Sophie had to let go of her stick and dive to rescue Calcifer. Her stick, to her surprise, hit Miss Angorian again on its own, and again, and again. But of course it would! Sophie thought. She had talked life into that stick.
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He stood up in a hurry. He held out one hand and spoke a sentence of those words that lost themselves in claps of thunder. Plaster fell from the ceiling. Everything trembled. But the stick vanished and Howl stepped back with a small, hard, black thing in his hand.
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