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A series of novels by Diana Wynne Jones and arguably her second most famous work(s) after Howl's Moving Castle. A set of books set in the Related Worlds about a government official (the "Chrestomanci") who has nine lives and the job of controlling the misuse of magic.There are six novels and one collection of short stories, although, in some editions, pairs of novels are gathered under the title The Chronicles of Chrestomanci.The books are, in order of publication: Charmed Life The Magicians of Caprona Witch Week The Lives of Christopher Chant Mixed Magics (the short story collection): "Warlock at the Wheel" "Stealer of Souls" "Carol O'Neir's Hundredth Dream" "The Sage of Theare" Conrad's Fate The Pinhoe EggThe stories more or less fall into three broad headings: those that focus on a young boy named Eric "Cat" Chant, those that focus on Christopher Chant, or those that merely feature Chrestomanci as a supporting character to an entirely separate main cast.
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Aliens Speaking English
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Aliens Speaking English: It's stated that the reason the "Related Worlds" are referred to as such is because they all share the same languages, but the people Christopher encounters in his travels often speak English. Particularly glaring in Asheth's city, which is in the desert and has something of an Indo-Arabic culture.
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Control Freak
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Christopher's mother is a Control Freak social climber and his father a Workaholic who blew all his money, both of whom, though they do love him, want to dictate his life for personal gain. Cat and Gwendolen's parents are both implied to have been very kind, even seeming to realize that Gwendolen was using Cat's magic somehow, but they die within the first two pages.
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Noble Savage
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Noble Savage: Subverted with the people of Series Eleven. They come off as this, wearing furs and living in a forest with no apparent infrastructure, but are in fact such advanced magic-users that they have no need of houses or any form of technology.
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Dream Weaver
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Dream Weaver Carol O'Neir; "oneiric" means having to do with dreams.
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Muggle Born of Mages
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Muggle Born of Mages: Tonino seems to have no magical aptitude whatsoever, aside from talking to cats, to the point of turning into a sci-fi nerd instead. He does have some power... it just tends to be better suited to working with other people's magic rather than creating his own.
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Childhood Friend Romance
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Childhood Friend Romance: Christopher and Millie in Conrad's Fate.
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No Sympathy
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No Sympathy: While young Christopher isn't terribly sympathetic himself, he has a point when he complains that he's getting lectured and blamed for dying.
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Power Limiter
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Power Limiter/Power Nullifier: Every nine-lived enchanter has some sort of Achilles' Heel. For Christopher, it's silver: being in contact with it in any way renders him completely incapable of using magic. In Cat's case, he's left handed and thus has to use it to cast magic; any magic cast with his right will either be very weak or not work at all.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: In-universe. Because Christopher is used to the name "Ralph" being pronounced how it's spelled and taken off-guard by his Uncle Ralph using the older pronunciation "Rafe", it takes him a while to pick up on the fact that Uncle Ralph and the interdimensional criminal who goes by "The Wraith" are the same person.
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Puppet Permutation
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Puppet Permutation: When Tonino and Angelica get too close to the truth, they're shrunk to doll size and forced to perform in the Duke's Punch and Judy theater.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: Tacroy, aka Mordecai Roberts.
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Parents as People
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Parents as People: For most of his childhood, Christopher's parents were just vague figures of authority, seldom seen and enigmatic. Once he grows up a little bit, he realizes that his mother, though she loves him, really only cares about her own social status and has been led astray by Uncle Ralph and his father is using him in a similar way, desperate to win back his own former glory. Learning that his parents are very flawed people and not just grand, imposing figures depresses Christopher a little, but it helps him move out from their shadow and become his own person.
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The Scottish Trope
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The Scottish Trope: Because of what happens when someone says "Chrestomanci", criminals go out of their way to use euphemisms to refer to him, such as "Eminent Personage".
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Conrad, especially when he's with Christopher. Gabriel De Witt even lampshades it.
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Fire-Forged Friends
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Fire-Forged Friends: Cat and Janet in Charmed Life.
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Nephewism
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Nephewism: A year after Cat and Gwendolen's parents die, they're sent to live with their previously-unknown cousin on both sides of the family. He didn't take them in out of filial obligation, though.
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Kid Hero
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Kid Hero: Christopher, Cat, Tonino, Angelica, and Marianne.
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Merlin Sickness
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Merlin Sickness: "The Sage of Theare", though it's more that his life has been running backwards to catch up with him.
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Birds of a Feather
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Birds of a Feather: Christopher and the Goddess.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Gwendolen is cruel and selfish, but it takes Cat a long time to realise because she's always nice to him, at least as long as he's useful to her. Marianne's father in "The Pinhoe Egg" is so kind and peace-loving that the entire village calls him "Dad". It the end, it turns out he conspired with his brothers and uncles to cripple his father and trap him in another dimension and lied to everyone about it. After the main plot is over, he tells Marianne that everything is her fault, and is so stuck in his ways that in the end he is practically the only member of his family who hasn't decided to work with Chrestomanci, preferring to grumble and shun everyone instead.
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Modern Mayincatec Empire
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Modern Mayincatec Empire: Apparently America is called Atlantis and ruled by the Incas.
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Cold Flames
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Cold Flames: During the climax of Charmed Life, the dragon reappears, and bounds up to Cat to greet him, accidentally blowing fire onto Cat's face in its excitement. The only reason Cat isn't burnt by the flames is that he remembers to tell the flames to be cool.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Christopher's mother is a Control Freak social climber and his father a Workaholic who blew all his money, both of whom, though they do love him, want to dictate his life for personal gain. Cat and Gwendolen's parents are both implied to have been very kind, even seeming to realize that Gwendolen was using Cat's magic somehow, but they die within the first two pages. The protagonists of Witch Week are all missing at least one parent, except for Charles, whose parents sent him off to a school he hates so they wouldn't have to deal with him. Conrad Tesdinic's father is dead, and his unbelievably neglectful mother lets him be manipulated by his Evil Uncle who lives with them. She's fully aware that her brother is a Manipulative Bastard, but she simply doesn't care enough to take an active role in his life. It's implied she herself was manipulated, reinforced with just a hint of magic.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: In Charmed Life Millie is introduced as Chrestomanci's plain, proper wife. She is perceived as nothing more than a motherly figure until Janet lets Cat know that Millie has magic as well. Cat shrugs this off as paranoia, but by the end of the story it's apparent that Millie is one of the most powerful magic-users in the Castle. When she shows up for the final battle at the last minute, all of the other good guys, including Chrestomanci, visibly relax; once Millie shows up, any fight is as good as won.
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Strange Minds Think Alike
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Christopher and Janet have the same habit of getting the names of people they don't like wrong.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: After Christopher's father predicts that Christopher will be threatened by silver, he casts his strongest spells to make silver neutral to Christopher. The effect of this is that silver cancels out Christopher's magic, which is at best inconvenient and at worst life-threatening.
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Good Thing You Can Heal
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Good Thing You Can Heal: Cat and Christopher burn through their nine lives at an alarming rate, with Christopher breaking his neck twice within a few days.
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The Edwardian Era
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The Edwardian Era: Sort of. It's in another world, there's obviously no King Edward, and the books are set in modern-ish times, but 12-A bears quite a strong resemblance to the era of Edward's reign.
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Burn the Witch!
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Burn the Witch!: In the setting of Witch Week, this is very common and avoiding it is a main focus of the plot of the book.
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Proper Lady
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Proper Lady: Irene Yeldham, nee Pinhoe.
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Official Couple
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Official Couple: Christopher and Millie, Mordecai and Rosalie, Rosa and Marco...
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Lethal Joke Character
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Lethal Joke Character: The White Devil assumes that Tonino and Angelica are perfect pawns in its plot, since one is no good at making his own spells and the latter is a notorious screw-up. Both of them ruin her day, with Tonino turning her own magic against her to nearly strangle her to death, and Angelica using her power to do weird-but-effective things to summon help.
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Awful Truth
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Awful Truth: Young Christopher realizes that his uncle Ralph has been using him to smuggle weapons and artifacts from other worlds, as well as butchering and selling off the body parts of mystical creatures, including mermaids who had been Christopher's friends. The Goddess finds out every old Living Asheth gets killed to make way for the new one. Slightly subverted in that Mother Proudfoot secretly saves most of them. Keyword being "most".
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: The Goddess is very concerned about what happened to all the other Living Asheths. Christopher thinks she's being silly. Christopher is wrong.
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Reality Warper
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Reality Warper: Enchanters. Before receiving formal training in magic, Christopher and Cat warped reality without even realizing it.
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Accidental Kidnapping
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Accidental Kidnapping: The title character in "Warlock at the Wheel" steals a car without realising until too late that there's a small girl and her dog in the back seat.
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Parental Substitute
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Parental Substitute: Christopher and Millie for Cat and Janet.
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Pick a Card
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Pick a Card: Warlock at the Wheel has a variation; a shady magician claims to be able to help criminals evade justice by transporting them to other worlds, and offers his clients a fan of cards and tells them to pick one to determine which world they will be transported to. The protagonist, after picking his card, notices that it's one of those trick decks where the cards are all the same, and it's confirmed at the end of the story that the magician actually only knows one world-transport spell, and sends all his clients to the same place (where they're generally picked up by one of Chrestomanci's agents more or less immediately).
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Sibling Team
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Sibling Team: Neither Julia nor Roger can stand Gwendolyn, and often hex her in tandem.
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Cat Stereotype
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Cat Stereotype: Throgmorton is a loveable rogue orange cat (although "loveable" often spills over into "evil-tempered").
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: Chrestomanci.
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Hostage Situation
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Hostage Situation: Towards the end of "The Lives of Christopher Chant", Gabriel De Witt is captured by the Dright of Series Eleven and Christopher travels there to negotiate for his release.
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Gentleman Wizard
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Gentleman Wizard: Chrestomanci. Quite a few other characters too.
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Pretty in Mink
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Pretty in Mink: The inhabitants of Series Eleven wear furs (and jewellery) to indicate social status. Christopher dresses up in a tiger-skin rug in the hope to impress them when he has to travel to their dimension, and Millie gets draped in a mink stole.
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Chrestomanci / int_44f5d199
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type
Sustained Misunderstanding
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comment
Sustained Misunderstanding: One of Christopher's favorite discussion tactics.
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Chrestomanci / int_46d7e20a
 Chrestomanci / int_4781adbb
type
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 Chrestomanci / int_4781adbb
comment
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Christopher. Though he's insufferably self-absorbed and can act like a total jerkass, he does have a good heart and good intentions. Dr. Pawson is overbearing and bullying with no tolerance for foolishness, but does respects people who stand up to him and is a surprisingly good teacher for Christopher.
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Chrestomanci / int_4781adbb
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type
Badass Teacher
 Chrestomanci / int_498a6a21
comment
Badass Teacher: Michael Saunders, who is a powerful magician in charge of tutoring Chrestomanci's children and wards.
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Chrestomanci / int_498a6a21
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type
Toy Transmutation
 Chrestomanci / int_49afdc78
comment
Toy Transmutation: In The Magicians of Caprona Tonino and are abducted by the Duke's wife, who is secretly the White Witch who wants to destroy Caprona. They are completely at her mercy for a while and are even turned into Punch and Judy puppets which are used to entertain the Duke.
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Chrestomanci / int_49afdc78
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type
Friendless Background
 Chrestomanci / int_4a57732a
comment
Friendless Background: Christopher has no friends to play with before he goes to boarding school. The reason Cat clings to Gwendolen so much is that he has no-one else.
 Chrestomanci / int_4a57732a
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Chrestomanci / int_4a57732a
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type
Fish out of Temporal Water
 Chrestomanci / int_4acee1ed
comment
Fish out of Temporal Water: Janet. Well, it's an alternate dimension that closely resembles the past, anyway. [note]As there are several alternate dimensions it's not completely clear that she's from our world, as in the non-magical Twelve-B, or some other one.[/note]
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Chrestomanci / int_4acee1ed
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Author Tract
 Chrestomanci / int_4eaa9b84
comment
Author Tract: The thinly veiled Aesop in The Pinhoe Egg about Christianity turning the Pinhoes, Farleighs and Cleeves into fanatics.
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Chrestomanci / int_4eaa9b84
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Our Demons Are Different
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comment
Our Demons Are Different: The "White Devil's" nature is never explained, but her true form is that of a rat, and her intentions are as malevolent as her machinations are subtle. And the spell that should keep her away isn't working because the descendants of the two families that warded her off are feuding.
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Chrestomanci / int_50ed1af4
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Reincarnation
 Chrestomanci / int_50f5dabe
comment
Reincarnation: Conrad's uncle tells him he has 'bad karma' because of something he did in a past life. Turns out he's lying, and Conrad is brand new.
 Chrestomanci / int_50f5dabe
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Chrestomanci / int_50f5dabe
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Affably Evil
 Chrestomanci / int_537dd8fe
comment
Affably Evil: Uncle Ralph in The Lives of Christopher Chant.
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Chrestomanci / int_537dd8fe
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type
Last Girl Wins
 Chrestomanci / int_53ea03ee
comment
Last Girl Wins: Marianne, in all likelihood.
 Chrestomanci / int_53ea03ee
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Chrestomanci / int_53ea03ee
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type
Achievements in Ignorance
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comment
Achievements in Ignorance: What Angleica specializes in, while by all appearances an Inept Mage her spells still work and are usually horrendously powerful, such that no one can seem to turn them back.
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Chrestomanci / int_57b74bd4
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type
Magic Mirror
 Chrestomanci / int_5b47c8c7
comment
Magic Mirror: The parlor mirror through which Christopher's mother contacts Uncle Ralph. The mirror in Gwendolen/Janet's room has a one-way spell that allows the person who cast it to watch what goes on there. Janet devotes considerable energy to pulling creative faces in it.
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Chrestomanci / int_5b47c8c7
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The Smurfette Principle
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comment
The Smurfette Principle: Marianne is the only female Pinhoe by blood born for several generations (the other women in the family are all in-laws). Because the leader of the family is always a woman, Marianne is destined to take over after her Gammer dies more by default than anything else.
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Chrestomanci / int_5d753b19
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Building of Adventure
 Chrestomanci / int_5f1999a0
comment
Building of Adventure: Chrestomanci Castle in Charmed Life, Stallery Manor in Conrad's Fate.
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Chrestomanci / int_5f1999a0
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Former Teen Rebel
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comment
Former Teen Rebel: Christopher, and probably also Gabriel DeWitt.
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Chrestomanci / int_60200c6
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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comment
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Ralph Argent.
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Chrestomanci / int_60fa92ac
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer
 Chrestomanci / int_61b8f9e2
comment
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Angelica Petrocchi is actually a quite talented magician, if you can overlook her unfortunate peculiarities.
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Chrestomanci / int_61b8f9e2
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Never the Selves Shall Meet
 Chrestomanci / int_6369571f
comment
Never the Selves Shall Meet: Made most explicit in Charmed Life.
 Chrestomanci / int_6369571f
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Chrestomanci / int_6369571f
 Chrestomanci / int_63cf9a3
type
Rage Against the Mentor
 Chrestomanci / int_63cf9a3
comment
Rage Against the Mentor: Christopher towards Gabriel De Witt, which lessens considerably when Christopher realizes De Witt had hated becoming Chrestomanci just as much as he does. But that doesn't stop it from rising up whenever they butt heads, like in Conrad's Fate.
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Chrestomanci / int_63cf9a3
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type
Heroic Sacrifice
 Chrestomanci / int_6439de78
comment
Heroic Sacrifice: Christopher gives up one of his few remaining lives to distract the Dright long enough to let him and the others escape from Series 11.
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Chrestomanci / int_6439de78
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type
All Girls Like Ponies
 Chrestomanci / int_6537cc1a
comment
All Girls Like Ponies: During a vacation in "The Pinhoe Egg", Janet and Julia read a book about horses and become obsessed with them, begging Chrestomanci for a horse or, at the very least, a pony. When he finally relents and purchases one, Janet immediately realizes that she is terrified of horses, and Julia has zero aptitude for riding. Cat, who was the least interested in owning a horse, ends up being the one who owns it.
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Chrestomanci / int_6537cc1a
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The Syndicate
 Chrestomanci / int_6552b710
comment
The Syndicate: The multiverse-spanning magical ingredient smugglers known as The Wraith, headed up by Christopher's Uncle Ralph, and unwittingly made profitable by Christopher himself.
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Chrestomanci / int_6552b710
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type
Giant Flyer
 Chrestomanci / int_67677940
comment
Giant Flyer: Roger and Joe the boot boy manage to invent a very rickety one in "The Pinhoe Egg" using, among other things, stools and kitchen tables, all lashed together very haphazardly, and powered by a stuffed bird. To the surprise of everyone, it works.
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Chrestomanci / int_67677940
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Evil Uncle
 Chrestomanci / int_688afa6a
comment
Conrad Tesdinic's father is dead, and his unbelievably neglectful mother lets him be manipulated by his Evil Uncle who lives with them. She's fully aware that her brother is a Manipulative Bastard, but she simply doesn't care enough to take an active role in his life. It's implied she herself was manipulated, reinforced with just a hint of magic.
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Chrestomanci / int_688afa6a
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Meaningful Name
 Chrestomanci / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Eric "Cat" Chant. Dream Weaver Carol O'Neir; "oneiric" means having to do with dreams. Uncle Ralph's side of Christopher's family has the surname "Argent", which means "silver". Silver turns out to be Christopher's Weaksauce Weakness, and his attachment to Uncle Ralph's family turns out to be the source of all the problems in the plot.
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Chrestomanci / int_6bda9a30
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Disc-One Final Boss
 Chrestomanci / int_6de71c57
comment
Disc-One Final Boss: The Wraith in The Lives of Christopher Chant.
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Chrestomanci / int_6de71c57
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type
Corruption of a Minor
 Chrestomanci / int_6fc8bf2b
comment
Corruption of a Minor: Those "experiments" Christopher does for his uncle? Aren't quite legal.
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Chrestomanci / int_6fc8bf2b
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Screening the Call
 Chrestomanci / int_6fd5d7e
comment
Screening the Call: Gwendolen's actions had this effect on Cat.
 Chrestomanci / int_6fd5d7e
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Chrestomanci / int_6fd5d7e
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type
TheMasquerade
 Chrestomanci / int_7095c87e
comment
The Masquerade: The Pinhoes, Farleighs and Cleeves pretend to not have magic so that Chrestomanci won't police them.
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Chrestomanci / int_7095c87e
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type
VictoriousChildhoodFriend
 Chrestomanci / int_71456526
comment
Victorious Childhood Friend: Christopher and Millie get married at the end of Conrad's Fate. Though this should come as no surprise if you've read any of the other books.
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Chrestomanci / int_71456526
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
 Chrestomanci / int_75d6bf40
comment
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Mordecai and Miss Rosalie. And by watching them, Christopher realizes it's the same case with his forever quarreling parents.
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Chrestomanci / int_75d6bf40
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The Call Put Me on Hold
 Chrestomanci / int_7630ffdb
comment
The Call Put Me on Hold: Although he wasn't bothered by it in the least, destiny didn't catch up with Christopher until that fateful moment when Dr. Pawson took all of his silver away, and Christopher accidentally blew the roof of the house off.
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Chrestomanci / int_7630ffdb
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Straw Feminist
 Chrestomanci / int_76d233f9
comment
Straw Feminist: Conrad and Anthea's mother, who writes books about female enslavement that few people buy. A hypocritical version, since she exploits Anthea and later Conrad to do household chores she won't do herself and her reaction to learning that Anthea has secretly gotten herself accepted to a college is to protest that she's not clever enough.
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Chrestomanci / int_76d233f9
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
 Chrestomanci / int_77ed6b7d
comment
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Gwendolen's behavior runs the gamut from just bratty to downright evil.
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Super-Empowering
 Chrestomanci / int_78418ebb
comment
Super Empowering: A unique quality of Tonino Montana's magic is that he can greatly enhance any spell he takes part in or, in a pinch, turn it against the caster.
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Chrestomanci / int_78418ebb
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Not Quite the Right Thing
 Chrestomanci / int_7a19a69b
comment
Not Quite the Right Thing: Christopher's father, Cosmo, divined his future at birth and foresaw that silver would be immensely dangerous to him. He immediately cast every single spell, enhancement and blessing he could to make silver neutral to him. This ended up making silver negate his ability to use magic. When he hears this, he gets depressed with himself once more because another word for silver is 'argent,' referring to his estranged wife's family. Most notably, Ralph Argent.
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Fantastic Fantasy Is Mundane
 Chrestomanci / int_7ac0b680
comment
Fantastic Fantasy Is Mundane: In The Magicians of Caprona, Tonino, who comes from a family of powerful magicians, likes to read fantasy novels, which is to say implausible stories about people saving the world using no magic at all.
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Chrestomanci / int_7ac0b680
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Corporal Punishment
 Chrestomanci / int_7d260070
comment
Corporal Punishment: Chrestomanci has Michael spank Gwendolen with a boot after she plays a particularly nasty magical prank, and boxes Cat's ears for not stopping her.
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Chrestomanci / int_7d260070
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Magical Land
 Chrestomanci / int_7d81759e
comment
Magical Land: "The distance", where all of the mythical creatures are sealed.
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Chrestomanci / int_7d81759e
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Expository Hairstyle Change
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comment
Expository Hairstyle Change: As a child and into young adulthood, Christopher has Quirky Curls. By the time he's become the Chrestomanci and matured into an extremely debonair and casually confident middle-aged man, his hair is noted to be styled down smoothly to the point of immobility.
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Chrestomanci / int_7efd2e30
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Chrestomanci / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Christopher singlehandedly and unintentionally supplied a multiworld smuggling ring.
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Chrestomanci / int_7fbb2a3
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Freak Out
 Chrestomanci / int_7fbe9a30
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Freak Out: The Goddess has a very justified one. Christopher, of all people, has a minor one in Conrad's Fate when he can't find Millie.
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Chrestomanci / int_7fbe9a30
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Evil Matriarch
 Chrestomanci / int_81ae2774
comment
Evil Matriarch: Gammer Pinhoe.
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Chrestomanci / int_81ae2774
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Large Ham
 Chrestomanci / int_823c6e3e
comment
Large Ham: Dr. Pawson who's so fat he never leaves his chair and has an attitude to match.
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Chrestomanci / int_823c6e3e
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Magitek
 Chrestomanci / int_82d2715f
comment
Magitek: Roger and Joe's inventions.
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Chrestomanci / int_82d2715f
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Boarding School
 Chrestomanci / int_82d57ef5
comment
Boarding School: Chrestomanci Castle winds up serving this function for young enchanters at times. Witch Week is set at a pretty dreadful one. Subverted in The Lives Of Christopher Chant where Christopher dreads going to school, but when he gets there loves it. He makes friends, excels at most lessons, and quickly grows into a more healthy person than he had been cooped up in his family home with no company. Unfortunately for him, fate - and more pointedly, the adults in his life - have designs on his future, and he is quite quickly whisked away from the school. In Conrad's Fate Millie ends up running away to stop going to her awful boarding school.
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Pals with Jesus
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Pals with Jesus: In The Lives of Christopher Chant, a young Christopher Chant (the Chrestomanci of Charmed Life) meets and befriends a young girl who is the Living Aspect of the Goddess Asheth. Fast-forward ten years and they're married. Conrad to Christopher, too, considering Christopher is basically a Reality Warper.
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The Fair Folk
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The Fair Folk: The people of Series Eleven are said to be the inspiration behind the myths of elves.
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Stating the Simple Solution
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Stating the Simple Solution: Christopher Chant's powers are blocked if he is touching silver, which causes problems during mealtimes when eating with silverware. Near the end of the story, a baffled Janet asks him why they haven't switched to stainless steel cutlery. The castle's staff are rather embarrassed to realize they overlooked this.
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Gentleman Snarker
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Gentleman Snarker: Chrestomanci (aka Christopher). Three guesses where he got it from...
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Immunity Disability
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Immunity Disability: At birth, it was foretold that Christopher Chant's weakness would be silver, so his father cast his strongest spells against silver affecting him. The result is that being in contact with silver causes him to be Brought Down to Normal; when Christopher isn't touching it, he's the most powerful enchanter in the worlds.
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The Magic Comes Back
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The Magic Comes Back: Though magic itself is more than plentiful, many mythical creatures and spirits such as griffins, unicorns and wood nymphs have been sealed away in another dimension for many centuries. Cat, who is sensitive to these things, notices that the woods seem thin and empty without them. At the end of "The Pinhoe Egg", he tears down the veil and sets all the creatures free, rescuing them from extinction and restoring their magic to the world.
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Kissing Cousins
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Kissing Cousins: Cat and Gwendolen's parents were both born Chants and cousins.
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Boarding School of Horrors
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Boarding School of Horrors: In Witch Week. And not just for the pupils. Turns into The Good Old British Comp when the worlds merge at the end.
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Egg MacGuffin
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Egg MacGuffin: The Pinhoe Egg, which hatches out a griffin. Apart from the inherent awesomeness, this is a key plot point because they're supposed to be extinct, if they ever existed in the first place.
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Money, Dear Boy
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Money, Dear Boy: In-Universe when Mordecai/Tacroy is captured and interrogated about why he would work for a criminal organisation like The Wraith, he flippantly gives this as his reason, though the truth is much more complicated.
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Cat, when he finally tells Gwendolen where she can shove it. Angelica and Tonino, by the end of Magicians of Caprona.
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Kill It with Fire
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Kill It with Fire: The denizens of Series 11 are so dependent on magic and consider themselves so advanced that they look down on other species who use fire for cooking or heating. Because they're so unfamiliar with it, fire is the best tool Christopher and Millie have for defeating the Dright.
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The Pinhoes, Farleighs and Cleeves think that griffins, unicorns and the various spirits of the woods and households are "abominations".
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: A lot of them are scattered throughout the series. The tan, fair-haired aide of Gabriel De Witt's at the end of Conrad's Fate. Millie's cats in The Pinhoe Egg. They are all descended from Throgmorten and Bethi's kitten who came to live with the Goddess in Chrestomanci Castle. Elizabeth, one of the students mentioned at the end of Conrad's Fate, is Paolo and Tonino Montana's mother in The Magicians of Caprona. Jason the boot boy from The Lives of Christopher Chant is featured a lot in The Pinhoe Egg as a powerful magic-user who is tasked with finding exotic plants from other worlds to bring back to the Castle. O'Neir, one of Christopher's childhood friends is the father of the female protagonist featured in "Carol O'Neir's Hundredth Dream". Millie's throwaway line in Charmed Life about someone bullying her is central to the plot in Conrad's Fate. Christopher spends a chapter of "The Lives of Christopher Chant" staying with his cousin Caroline, whom he says is a lot of fun. Caroline would grow up to be mother to Cat and Gwendolen in "Charmed Life" and die shortly before that book begins.
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Old Retainer
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Old Retainer: Discussed; Christopher is astonished by the idea, because he grew up in a household where the emotional atmosphere was such that the servants generally handed in their notice after a month or so.
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Flock of Wolves
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Flock of Wolves: In Witch Week, the eventual reveal is that despite the fact that they're still persecuted in this timeline, witches are the majority, if not the entirety, of the population.
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Bewildering Punishment
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Bewildering Punishment: Chrestomanci's treatment of Gwendolen in Charmed Life is this to Cat (and Gwendolen as well). Cat doesn't understand why Chrestomanci just chooses to ignore Gwendolen, since that seems to make her act even worse. It's implied that he was trying to avoid clearly punishing her so as to not make her or Cat try to leave. In the end, while it doesn't make her behave any better, it does infuriate her.
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Good Parents
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Good Parents: Millie and Christopher. Cat and Gwendolen's parents were hinted to be this, but they died too quickly to get a good impression.
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The Butler Did It
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The Butler Did It: It turns out that Mordecai Roberts was working for the Wraith for years.
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Healing Factor
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Healing Factor: The nine lives that Chrestomancis have are a form of this.
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Enfant Terrible
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Enfant Terrible: Gwendolen was five when she started hijacking her brother's magic and put his lives into a matchbook, something that killed him once.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Gwendolen receives no comeuppance for her cruelty and malice, and ends up royalty in another dimension, though Chrestomanci makes it clear that she is ruling over a Decadent Court and Cat ensures that she'll never be able to come back to their world. Though the degree to which Christopher's mother was involved with The Wraith's operations is left unclear, she was at least aware of what Christopher had been made to do and had no problem with it. Though Christopher frets that she might be imprisoned, she ends up back together with his father in Japan, restored to the top of the social ladder and faces zero consequences.
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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Obfuscating Stupidity: The Duke, who finds he can only really get things done around his evil wife's enchantments is by pretending to be silly and childlike... leaving aside the things about him that really are silly and childlike.
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Mage Species
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Mage Species: Magic, particularly enchanter-strength magic runs in the family, in the Chant family. When two cousins get married, the chance of them having magical kids quadruples.
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Love at First Sight
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Love at First Sight: Parodied with Marco and Rosa, who find that falling in love and deciding to get married is the easy part, "over in minutes." The tricky part is doing it around both their families' feud.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Let's say played with in The Magicians of Caprona, as Jones discussed in several lectures how she hated the trope in children's literature, and was very careful to give the characters good reasons. The adult Montanas and Petrochis are fairly unhelpful, yes, but it's because their prejudice against each other blinds them to any other possible explanation, not just because they are adults (the children start off with the same perspective). They don't so much ignore what's happen as go very determinedly in the wrong direction, and only get their act together at the very end. Marco and Rosa meanwhile are rather too aware for the children's comfort, the Duke turns out to be quite canny—despite childish qualities which at first made even the actual children dismiss him—and Chrestomanci was on the right track the whole time, but just too busy to be helpful until the end. The adults seem unaware of what's going on through most of Charmed Life, leaving Cat and Janet to try and deal with their problems alone.
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I Choose to Stay
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I Choose to Stay: Janet and all the other alternate versions of Gwendolen. Also the Goddess in The Lives of Christopher Chant, after she runs away from Series Ten.
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Clashing Cousins
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Clashing Cousins: Gwendolyn and Julia make enemies almost the moment they meet, although they don't realize their relation at the time. Christopher Chant and his cousin Francis, due to Francis bullying him when they were children.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Tacroy and Christopher both. Wonder who the latter learned it from?
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Wizarding School
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Wizarding School: A lot of schools teach Magic as one subject alongside the other mundane ones.
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Inept Mage
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Inept Mage: Angelica Petrocchi. Being tone-deaf in a family of singing magicians can have... mixed results.
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Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
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Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Chrestomanci's dressing gowns.
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Loners Are Freaks
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Loners Are Freaks: Cat sometimes has difficulty interacting with other people, which gets him in trouble the more his sister stirs up. Word of God is that he is autistic.
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Extreme Doormat
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Extreme Doormat: Cat, and Marianne, at first.
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Villain Episode
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Villain Episode: The story Warlock at the Wheel focuses on a minor villain from Charmed Life.
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The Multiverse
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The Multiverse: The Series of Related Worlds.
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First Girl Wins
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First Girl Wins: Millie. You can't win anymore than Happily Married with two kids.
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Prophecy Twist
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Prophecy Twist: When Christopher is born, his father casts his horoscope and interprets it to say that silver will be a source of danger to him. Though it quickly becomes clear that silver objects render Christopher powerless, what the prophecy really meant was that most of the danger he faces is from his uncle Ralph Argent, which means silver.
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You Are What You Hate
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You Are What You Hate: In Witch Week, witches are universally feared and persecuted despite nearly everyone being a witch.
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Happily Married
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Cat is confused about Miss Rosalie and Mordecai as they certainly act Happily Married, and she wears a gold wedding ring, but also insists on being called Miss Rosalie.
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Non-Human Sidekick
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Non-Human Sidekick: Throgmorten the cat for Christopher in "The Lives of Christopher Chant". Because he has no friends of his own in the castle, Christopher is more than happy to let Throgmorten accompany him on his explorations, and later on he deploys Throgmorten to take down Uncle Ralph.
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Weaksauce Weakness
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Uncle Ralph's side of Christopher's family has the surname "Argent", which means "silver". Silver turns out to be Christopher's Weaksauce Weakness, and his attachment to Uncle Ralph's family turns out to be the source of all the problems in the plot.
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Double Agent
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Double Agent: Tacroy is an unwilling triple agent.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Because he's not good with magic, Tonino is always reading about science and history instead. His family has come to be proud of his studiousness by the time the main plot of The Magicians of Caprona starts, however, and it's thought that he'll eventually succeed his great-uncle at the university.
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Cats Are Magic
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Cats Are Magic: The Goddess's sacred cats in The Lives of Christopher Chant literally have nine lives. When one of these cats, Throgmorten, attacks somebody, he seems to grow at least seven limbs and three heads. In The Magicians of Caprona, the Casa Montana cats help in spellcasting, and some of them can speak mind-to-mind.
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Waking Up at the Morgue
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Waking Up at the Morgue: Christopher discovers he has nine lives this way after being killed by a blow to the head by a cricket bat at his boarding school.
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Chrestomanci / int_c47fed84
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God in Human Form
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God in Human Form: The Living Asheth, a human girl who is chosen to represent the Living Aspect of the Goddess Asheth and who apparently gains some degree of supernatural ability (or at least an extra set of arms) from the position. The subversion is that Asheth doesn't really share her powers and the Living Asheth is an enchantress who is just that powerful on her own without realizing it.
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Chrestomanci / int_c5a7def5
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Inconvenient Summons
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Inconvenient Summons: Chrestomanci finds himself summoned to deal with magical catastrophes at the most inconvenient times, often while in the middle of important state functions or while he's in his dressing gown.
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Chrestomanci / int_c66245e9
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Necromancer
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Necromancer: Necromancers are a type of low level magician but what they actually do is never specified.
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Chrestomanci / int_c81e2bba
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Magic Music
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Magic Music: The Montanas and Petrocchis prefer to sing their spells, most notably the Angel of Caprona.
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Chrestomanci / int_c928d01d
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It Can Think
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It Can Think: The Reveal at the end of "Carol O'Neir's Hundredth Dream" is that the various recurring "actors" her dreams are populated with have become self-aware and have developed independent personalities, and are going on strike for better conditions.
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Chrestomanci / int_c95d04f2
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Decadent Court
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Gwendolen receives no comeuppance for her cruelty and malice, and ends up royalty in another dimension, though Chrestomanci makes it clear that she is ruling over a Decadent Court and Cat ensures that she'll never be able to come back to their world.
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Chrestomanci / int_c9790040
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Flying Broomstick
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Flying Broomstick: In The Pinhoe Egg, women ride broomsticks and men ride bicycles. In Witch Week it's uni.
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Chrestomanci / int_cbfd6e47
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: Poor Marianne tries desperately to let people know that Gammer has gone insane and is cursing the Farleighs, but everyone either has been bespelled not to believe her, or just won't listen.
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Taken for Granite
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Taken for Granite: Desperate to stop Gaffer Farleigh from killing Roger and Joe, Cat turns him into a petrified tree. The spell is so strong that he and Chrestomanci cannot undo it even by working together.
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Call on Me
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Call on Me: Any Chrestomanci whenever his title is spoken thrice. Several times, Christopher's in a dressing gown because he doesn't always have time to get dressed up.
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Chrestomanci / int_d151c83a
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In Spite of a Nail
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In Spite of a Nail: Chrestomanci's world diverged from ours centuries ago when magic gained ascendancy over science, so it's really remarkable how similar it is to our world. More generally, it's mentioned several times, and a major plot point in Charmed Life, that any given person will almost always have an Alternate Self in at least eight nearby worlds no matter how different those worlds' histories are. The world of Witch Week diverged from our own in the 17th century and yet, except for its pathological distrust of witches, is practically identical, down to minor details like brand names and pop culture references. Chrestomanci remarks on this as being unusual even for two neighboring worlds, and it turns out to be a sign that it isn't the result of a natural divergence.
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Chrestomanci / int_d243518d
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Tonino, terrible at normal magic, turns out to have a special talent for bending other people's spells to his own benefit. Notably, he uses this to hang the Duchess after being transformed into a Punch puppet.
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Chrestomanci / int_d397657d
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Feuding Families
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Feuding Families: Casa Montana and Casa Petrocchi have been fighting for years. They used to be great friends... and, ultimately, it is only a Montana and a Petrocchi singing the song together in perfect harmony that can drive out the White Devil again. Also the Pinhoes and the Farleighs in The Pinhoe Egg.
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Achilles' Heel
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Achilles' Heel: Each Chrestomanci has their own individual one. For Christopher, it's silver. Cat can only channel magic through his left hand; any spell he tries to cast with his right hand will fail.
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Chrestomanci / int_d7639dba
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In Charmed Life, several of the magical practicioners who live on Coven Street are referred to by their job descriptions, such as the Accredited Witch or the Willing Warlock, because Cat, the viewpoint character, doesn't know their actual names. The Willing Warlock later gets a short story, "Warlock at the Wheel", in which he's the protagonist/viewpoint character/Butt-Monkey, and the narrator still spends the entire thing calling him the Willing Warlock.
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Chrestomanci / int_d7b34c31
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Our Dragons Are Different
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Our Dragons Are Different: Fully sapient here but also an endangered species as they're hunted for their blood is a magic ingredient that is Too Awesome to Use, anything using it works but not like it's meant to.
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Chrestomanci / int_d88e125e
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Soul Jar
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Soul Jar: Quite a few. Millie's wedding band contains one of Christopher's lives. Each of Cat's nine lives is individually kept in Gwendolyn's matchbook. Tacroy's soul is kept in the form of a silver thing that might be a statue.
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Chrestomanci / int_d8e1b5a3
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The Magic Goes Away
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The Magic Goes Away: This happens at the end of Witch Week when the Chrestomanci merges that universe with ours.
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Chrestomanci / int_d91d0365
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight:Don't Notice spells deliberately invoke this, and are undetectable by weaker mages.
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Chrestomanci / int_d99a228f
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Battle Butler
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Battle Butler: All of the Castle staff are government employees, meaning they're trained mages who can back Chrestomanci up in a fight.
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Superpowerful Genetics
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Superpowerful Genetics: Magic, particularly enchanter-strength magic runs in the family, in the Chant family. When two cousins get married, the chance of them having magical kids quadruples.
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Chrestomanci / int_dc2c2968
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: Chrestomanci tries to made his sudden appearances after people call his name look like this.
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Chrestomanci / int_dc579c91
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: Christopher and Millie in Conrad's Fate, though considering that book is a prequel to Charmed Life, the end result is very much a Foregone Conclusion.
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Chrestomanci / int_dcb9c541
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Two-Act Structure
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Two-Act Structure: Act I of Charmed Life ends with Gwendolen losing her magic, and Act II begins with Janet's arrival.
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Chrestomanci / int_de2ee4e8
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Replacement Sibling
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Replacement Sibling: Janet for Gwendolen, to Cat.
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Chrestomanci / int_de9adaf5
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Hot Guy, Ugly Wife
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Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: Gwendolen makes a nasty remark to this effect about Millie and Chrestomanci. Millie isn't ugly, per se, but she and her two children appear conspicuously plain when compared to her husband.
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Chrestomanci / int_e1cee453
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: By the end of The Pinhoe Egg, you not only have witches, wizards, magicians, sorcerers, and enchanters all in the same world, but now there are griffins, unicorns, and all sorts of hidden mythical beasts in the world. Expanding it to the rest of the Related Worlds includes the Lords of Karma (in Conrad's Fate), mermaids, dragons, The Fair Folk, and the sort-of Indian-ish Goddess Asheth (in The Lives of Christopher Chant), and the Classical Mythology-ish gods and goddesses in The Sage of Theare.
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Friend to All Living Things
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comment
Friend to All Living Things: During "The Pinhoe Egg", Cat proves himself to be one, due in part to a developing aspect of his magic known as "dwimmer". After bonding with the horse Syracuse, he is able to ride him like an expert, calm him down and use the horse's senses like his own. During the same book, he ends up becoming "mother" to a baby griffin, and frees untold hordes of magical creatures, who are all deeply grateful to him.
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Switching P.O.V.
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Switching P.O.V.: "Charmed Life" is told almost entirely from Cat's point of view, though sometimes it will switch to Janet or Gwendolen mid-chapter for a few lines. It can be a little jarring.
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Stock "Yuck!"
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Stock "Yuck!": Student characters in Witch Week, especially Charles, hate the rice pudding at their school.
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Chrestomanci / int_e3bd3475
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Star-Crossed Lovers
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Amusingly subverted and parodied in The Magicians of Caprona. Marco Petrocchi and Rosa Montana successfully marry under both of their warring family's noses and live through the end.
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Meaningful Rename
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Meaningful Rename: The Goddess renames herself Millie, after the main character from a series of English boarding-school novels with which she becomes obsessed, when she moves to Christopher's world for good.
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True Sight
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True Sight: Witch Sight, which allows magic users to see through spells and illusions. Like the rest of his abilities, Christopher had been using this without meaning to for some time and thought he was incapable of it when it came to learning it in school.
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Ambiguous Disorder
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Ambiguous Disorder: Cat's social difficulties, tendency to get stuck on small details when stressed, his low stress threshold in general, his trouble reading others' emotions, and his frightened resistance to change all suggest he be autistic, but given the setting it's never fully clarified. Similarly, Gwendolen is a strikingly obvious malignant narcissist for her age, but her behavior is left as essentially brattiness on steroids by the narrative.
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Pet Monstrosity
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Pet Monstrosity: Throgmorten, the cat from another world, who viciously attacks anything in sight, except for Christopher. A normal cat attack is bad enough, but when Throgmorten goes to town he appears to grow multiple extra limbs and at least three heads.
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Merged Reality
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Merged Reality: Happens at the end of Witch Week.
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: Christopher at first thinks that his trips to 'The Place Between' are this. He discovers later that he is actually spirit-travelling to other worlds.
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Bewitched Amphibians
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Bewitched Amphibians: Gwendolen turns Euphemia the maid into a frog, having previously claimed that her bulging eyes made her look like one already.
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Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
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Istanbul (Not Constantinople): For the Chrestomanci's home world.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Chrestomanci castle's residents.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Young Christopher. Somewhat justified by the fact that he's being shunted around and neglected by everyone around him, but still, Flavian and Miss Rosalie did try to get along with him. Christopher has shades of this as an adult as well, but it's his job to be more diplomatic about it, and Millie helps.
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Malicious Misnaming
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Malicious Misnaming: "Accidentally" getting a person's name wrong, in a way that implies that he just doesn't consider them important enough to remember it properly, is one of Chrestomanci's weapons against people who annoy him. Janet does the same to Mr Balsam in Charmed Life. At first she's genuinely having trouble remembering his name, but when Cat corrects her she declares that he doesn't deserve to have his name got right, and thereafter makes a point of getting it wrong a different way every time she says it, calling him such things as "Mr Bedlam" and "Mr Baalamb".
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Servile Snarker
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Servile Snarker: Mary and Euphemia, the two particular maids who serve the children, grow more and more snarky as Gwendolen shows more and more of her bitchy side.
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Our world, known as Twelve-B is just known as an obscure world where magic never developed.
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Locked Out of the Loop
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Locked Out of the Loop: Cat has no idea he's an enchanter; Gwendolen doesn't tell him because she's using his magic, and Chrestomanci doesn't tell him because he's unsure of Cat's motives.
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Cats Have Nine Lives
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Cats Have Nine Lives: Referenced in Charmed Life (the protagonist's nickname is Cat because he has nine lives); used literally in The Lives of Christopher Chant.
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Dimension Lord
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Dimension Lord: The Dright of Series Eleven.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: None of the protagonists are exactly saved by others swooping in more that they were able to set up the events that saved themselves.
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep"
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep": The Living Asheth/the Goddess.
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The Archmage
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The Archmage: Chrestomanci is a title given by the government to one of the most powerful mages in the multiverse.
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Team Mom
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Team Mom: Millie for the Chrestomanci Castle residents.
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Beware the Nice Ones
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Beware the Nice Ones: The Goddess seems like a very nice, innocent young girl to Christopher. Then when he refuses to help her escape her own world and live in another one, she traps him in the wall of her room in Asheth's Temple, only meaning to release him when he's agreed to help her run away.
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Alternate Self
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More generally, it's mentioned several times, and a major plot point in Charmed Life, that any given person will almost always have an Alternate Self in at least eight nearby worlds no matter how different those worlds' histories are.
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