And Howl and his fire demon Calcifer have a close, if somewhat strained, relationship, due to the fact that they have a contract that binds Calcifer to Howl’s hearth. There, Howl acts as a father figure and mentor to his teenage apprentice, Michael. But Megan believes this in part because she lives in Wales (which isn’t magical) and doesn’t know about the close chosen family Howl has built for himself in the magical world of Ingary. Howl has a strained relationship with his sister, Megan, who believes Howl is wasting his education and doing nothing with his life. In many ways, Howl’s Moving Castle is a story about family-about the difficulties of maintaining relationships with one’s blood family, and of the power of chosen family members to fill gaps left by one’s blood family.
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