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* [[Threat Backfire]]
{{quote|'''Witch of the Waste''': ...she told me 'over my dead body'. So I took her at her word.}}
* [[Tired of Running]]: Howl, tired of running away from the King's order to find Prince Justin. {{spoiler|He also goes directly to the Witch of the Waste's residence to confront and kill her.}}
* [[Title Drop]]: The phrase ''Moving Castle'' is used a few times throughout the book, but the only time ''Howl's Moving Castle'' is used is in chapter one: {{quote|''For the way to Upper Folding, where Mrs. Fairfax lived, lay over the hills past Wizard '''Howl’s moving castle'''. Martha was understandably scared.}}
* [[Tongue-Tied]]: Calcifer is unable to tell Sophie about how to break his contract, and must resort to dropping very subtle hints which Sophie often misses. Similarly, Sophie cannot tell others about her curse, and must leave it up to them to figure out, although a skilled wizard like Howl and powerful demon like Calcifer can see Sophie's curse from a single glance.
* [[Trash of the Titans]]: Howl's entire castle is unkempt and disorganised before Sophie arrives. Sophie acts as the cleaning lady, and makes the place look much more organised.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The root of Sophie's major problems is that she thinks she is genre savvy enough to know that being the eldest of three children she will be doomed to a boring life without glamour or success. As such she completely fails to see that she is an extremely potent witch with the ability to ensure a happy ending for herself as well as everyone around her.
* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: Lampshaded in almost every chapter — as well as the first sentence — and subverted. Sophie often thinks that whatever has gone wrong is caused by her being the eldest child.
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