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Mrs. Fairfax is a witch, an old friend of Fanny’s, and she takes Lettie on as an apprentice. She’s a maternal-looking blond woman, and from her home in Upper Folding, Mrs. Fairfax crafts spells that use honey from her bees. Initially, Mrs. Fairfax takes Martha on as an apprentice—but when she discovers that Martha and Lettie have used a spell to switch places and identities, she tells Lettie to become her true self. She’d rather teach someone who wants to learn. Despite being successful, Mrs. Fairfax insinuates that she’s not a particularly advanced witch. She encourages Lettie to court Howl in the hopes that Howl might offer to teach her, and she later encourages Lettie to accept Wizard Suliman’s offer to teach her. However, Mrs. Fairfax is adept at identifying curses: she knows who Sophie is when Sophie visits, posing as Lettie’s great-aunt; and she realizes that Percival is also under a curse.
Mrs. Fairfax Quotes in Howl’s Moving Castle
The Howl’s Moving Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Fairfax or refer to Mrs. Fairfax. 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 Three
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Perhaps Howl kept him in abject servility. But Michael did not look servile. He was a tall, dark boy with a pleasant, open sort of face, and he was most respectably dressed. In fact, if Sophie had not seen him at that moment carefully pouring green fluid out of a crooked flask onto black powder in a bent glass jar, she would have taken him for the son of a prosperous farmer. How odd!
Still, things were bound to be odd where wizards were concerned, Sophie thought.
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Chapter Eight
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“As if I wouldn’t recognize one of my own honey-based spells! But as I said to her at the time, ‘I’m not one to keep anyone against their will and I’d always rather teach someone who wants to learn. Only,’ I said to her, ‘I’ll have no pretense here. You stay as your own self or not at all.’ And it’s worked out very happily, as you see.”
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Mrs. Fairfax Quotes in Howl’s Moving Castle
The Howl’s Moving Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Fairfax or refer to Mrs. Fairfax. 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:
).
Chapter Three
Quotes
Perhaps Howl kept him in abject servility. But Michael did not look servile. He was a tall, dark boy with a pleasant, open sort of face, and he was most respectably dressed. In fact, if Sophie had not seen him at that moment carefully pouring green fluid out of a crooked flask onto black powder in a bent glass jar, she would have taken him for the son of a prosperous farmer. How odd!
Still, things were bound to be odd where wizards were concerned, Sophie thought.
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Chapter Eight
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“As if I wouldn’t recognize one of my own honey-based spells! But as I said to her at the time, ‘I’m not one to keep anyone against their will and I’d always rather teach someone who wants to learn. Only,’ I said to her, ‘I’ll have no pretense here. You stay as your own self or not at all.’ And it’s worked out very happily, as you see.”
