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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith is a kindhearted old woman who quickly grasps that Sirius can understand every word she says.
She proves her coolness at the end of the book, when it seems like she taught everyone in the town who has a measure of power [[spoiler: and takes in Kathleen.]]
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith is a kindhearted old woman who quickly grasps that Sirius can understand every word she says. \n She proves her coolness at the end of the book, when it seems like she taught everyone in the town who has a measure of power [[spoiler: and takes in Kathleen.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sirius's Companion, the Luminary who occupies the dwarf star in his orbit, [[spoiler: detests him and had him framed for murder, then when he's incarnated as a dog she tries repeatedly to kill him. Sirius, discovering that her nature has less kindness in it than ''Duffy'', finds himself embarrassed realizing that Sol clearly knew what she was really like and politely never said anything.]]
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* ForcedTransformation: Sirius is forced to take the form of a dog, with a dog's normal lifespan and other vulnerabilites, and has to find the MacGuffin before he dies of old age or something else kills him.
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* ForcedTransformation: Sirius is forced to take the form of a dog, with a dog's normal lifespan and other vulnerabilites, vulnerabilities, and has to find the MacGuffin before he dies of old age or something else kills him.him.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kathleen, to Sirius's exasperation, is kind to any animal she comes across. Mrs. Smith is very good to any dogs she meets, [[spoiler: and to Kathleen herself.]] Then there's the Earth.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kathleen, to Sirius's exasperation, is kind to any animal she comes across. Mrs. Smith is very good to any dogs she meets, [[spoiler: and to Kathleen herself.]] Then there's the Earth.
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* MacGuffin: The Zoi. The plot is driven by Sirius' need to find it and return it to safekeeping, while other characters try to prevent him, but the thing itself is never used during the story so its specific attributes play no role in the plot.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kathleen's cousins to different degrees. Robin is kind when alone with Kathleen but easily swayed by the opinions of his mom and older brother, so when she's getting yelled at he's caught between sympathy and jeering along. Basil is initially much more antagonistic to both Kathleen and Sirius and has absorbed more of Duffy's prejudices but gradually does reveal better aspects.
* MacGuffin: The Zoi. The plot is driven by Sirius' need to find it and return it to safekeeping, while other characters try to preventhim, him. It's very hard for him to explain what it actually ''is'', especially since at first his star memories are very hazed by dog thoughts. Eventually he tells another character that it's the movement behind movement. [[spoiler: It can create things, move them, destroy them... it's not well defined what the Zoi can do, but the thing itself is never used during the story so its specific attributes play no role in the plot.it's certainly effective as a weapon.]]
* MacGuffin: The Zoi. The plot is driven by Sirius' need to find it and return it to safekeeping, while other characters try to prevent
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* PunctuatedPounding: Duffie (the human WickedStepmother type) beats Tibbles (one of her cats) in this way for trespassing in the room where she keeps all her pottery. Since the victim of this incident is a cat, and the main character is a dog, this kind of incident with Duffie heads very quickly into literal KickTheDog territory.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When Sirius' Companion visits Earth, Sol is scrupulously, exaggeratedly polite with her, and she with him. Sirius finds it uncomfortably clear how much they detest each other.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: While dog-shaped Sirius initially can't access his star memories and capabilities at all. As he grows bigger and older more of his memory and intelligence returns, but have to struggle through his simpler dog thoughts as well. At one point he resolves to permanently run away from the home where Kathleen lives so he can dedicate himself to finding the Zoi, but later that day he realizes she's about to come home from school and his dog nature entirely takes over - it seems like the most important thing he can imagine to be there to greet her.
* PunctuatedPounding: Duffie (the human WickedStepmother type) beats Tibbles (one of her cats) in this way fortrespassing in the room where she keeps all breaking her pottery. Since the victim of this incident is a cat, and the main character is a dog, this kind of incident with Duffie heads very quickly into literal KickTheDog territory.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: While dog-shaped Sirius initially can't access his star memories and capabilities at all. As he grows bigger and older more of his memory and intelligence returns, but have to struggle through his simpler dog thoughts as well. At one point he resolves to permanently run away from the home where Kathleen lives so he can dedicate himself to finding the Zoi, but later that day he realizes she's about to come home from school and his dog nature entirely takes over - it seems like the most important thing he can imagine to be there to greet her.
* PunctuatedPounding: Duffie (the human WickedStepmother type) beats Tibbles (one of her cats) in this way for
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* TheWildHunt: Sirius in his dog incarnation turns out to be related to them. As Sirius's littermates, so are most of the other dog characters.
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* TheWildHunt: Sirius in his dog incarnation turns out to be related to them. them, the result of one of the hounds jumping into a pen with a labrador. As Sirius's littermates, so are most several of the other dog characters.characters share that heritage.
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Sirius can understand a lot more English than most animals. Justified since he's not really a dog.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly forever. He has a hope that there might be a way to make her his Companion eventually and keeps that spot open in anticipation.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly forever. He has a hope that there might be a way to make her his Companion eventually and keeps that spot open in anticipation.]]
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Sirius can understand as a lot more English than most animals. Justified since he's baby puppy doesn't seem too unlike a normal animal, but as he grows he applies himself to learning English. He's not really a dog.
dog, and his hyperintelligent star nature can struggle through his simpler canine thoughts. Other animals also seem to be pretty smart. Most of Sirius's dog-siblings are simple and tend not to say much more than "Hallo!" but Rover can figure out how to undo latches and understand most English if it's spoken slowly. The cats can't understand more than tone of voice and a few crucial words, but Tibbles is excellent at undoing latches and coordinates with the tabbies to try to get Sirius in trouble, then becomes his friend when he saves her from Duffy's beatings.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possiblyforever.forever - he's a terrifying angelic entity that can't touch her, and Kathleen mourns the dog he inhabited and is so carefully polite to him that she's clearly scared. Sirius leaves her, ashamed, and with Sol's help arranges for her to take home a puppy that's the niece of his dog self. He has a hope that there might be a way to make her his Companion eventually and keeps that spot open in anticipation.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: Sirius is very drawn to the scent of a dog in heat. He soon discovers that she's his sister, but that doesn't mean to a star or a dog what it would to a human. Fortunately, he can't jump the fence to be with her.
* BurningWithAnger: As a star Sirus is hot-tempered (and actively hot) and flames with outrage. As a dog his powers are much less, but when he's really worked up people comment that his eyes seem to be flaming.
* CatsAreMean: The cats in Kathleen's house are outraged by the presence of a dog, especially as he's jealous of Kathleen - the one person in the household who's consistently kind to them and gives them attention. They try to get rid of him, but mellow out before too long. While he and they get on quite well after that, they're still on the aloof and condescending side.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith is a kindhearted old woman who quickly grasps that Sirius can understand every word she says.
She proves her coolness at the end of the book, when it seems like she taught everyone in the town who has a measure of power [[spoiler: and takes in Kathleen.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly
* BrotherSisterIncest: Sirius is very drawn to the scent of a dog in heat. He soon discovers that she's his sister, but that doesn't mean to a star or a dog what it would to a human. Fortunately, he can't jump the fence to be with her.
* BurningWithAnger: As a star Sirus is hot-tempered (and actively hot) and flames with outrage. As a dog his powers are much less, but when he's really worked up people comment that his eyes seem to be flaming.
* CatsAreMean: The cats in Kathleen's house are outraged by the presence of a dog, especially as he's jealous of Kathleen - the one person in the household who's consistently kind to them and gives them attention. They try to get rid of him, but mellow out before too long. While he and they get on quite well after that, they're still on the aloof and condescending side.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith is a kindhearted old woman who quickly grasps that Sirius can understand every word she says.
She proves her coolness at the end of the book, when it seems like she taught everyone in the town who has a measure of power [[spoiler: and takes in Kathleen.]]
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* ExtremeDoormat: Kathleen is such a nice, agreeable girl and clearly does think she owes her aunt and uncle work to repay them for taking her in, and for everything Sirius breaks. She does quite a lot of labor for them, meekly obeying Duffy in every way. [[spoiler: Until Duffy lays into her after Kathleen's father dies and Kathleen smashes Duffy's pottery in revenge. Sirius defends her and bites Duffy, so Kathleen agrees that he has to be put down and runs away with him instead. Even then, though he takes her to Mrs. Smith, when she talks to her cousins she seems resolved to return with them.]]
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Sirius can understand a lot more english than most animals. Justified since he's not really a dog.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Sirius is forced to take the form of a dog, with a dog's normal lifespan and other vulnerabilites, and has to find the MacGuffin before he dies of old age or something else kills him.
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* ForcedTransformation: Sirius is forced to take the form of a dog, with a dog's normal lifespan and other vulnerabilites, and has to find the MacGuffin before he dies of old age or something else kills him.
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%% * BurningWithAnger: Sirius does this spectacularly as a star, and his eyes do it as a dog.
%% * CatsAreMean: Starts off this way, but they do mellow out part way through the story.
%% * CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith
%% * DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]]. %% the trope is not just "child has beloved pet who dies"; the death needs to be thematically important, and if it is the example description needs to say how
%% * CatsAreMean: Starts off this way, but they do mellow out part way through the story.
%% * CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith
%% * DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]]. %% the trope is not just "child has beloved pet who dies"; the death needs to be thematically important, and if it is the example description needs to say how
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%% * AGirlAndHerX: Kathleen and Sirius - at least from her perspective. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%
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* ParentalAbandonment: Kathleen is living with her uncle's family because her father is in prison. [[spoiler:Then he dies in an ecape attempt, and things get worse]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: Kathleen is living with her uncle's family because her father is in prison. [[spoiler:Then he dies in an ecape escape attempt, and things get worse]].
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]].
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%% * DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]].dead)]]. %% the trope is not just "child has beloved pet who dies"; the death needs to be thematically important, and if it is the example description needs to say how
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* SentientStar: All stars have living spirits. The spirit of the star Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal dog. A few other star spirits also appear as characters, including the spirit of Earth's Sun.
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* SentientStar: SentientStars: All stars have living spirits. The spirit of the star Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal dog. A few other star spirits also appear as characters, including the spirit of Earth's Sun.
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* {{Hellhound}}: The Cŵn Annwn, spectral hounds from Welsh Mythology, appear and play a role in the plot.
* HeroicCaninesVillainousFelines: The cats in Sirius' new home are at first jealous and try to set the EvilMatriarch against him. After he saves one of them from her wrath, however, they become some of his best allies.
* HeroicCaninesVillainousFelines: The cats in Sirius' new home are at first jealous and try to set the EvilMatriarch against him. After he saves one of them from her wrath, however, they become some of his best allies.
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* OrphansOrdeal: Kathleen's story, especially after [[spoiler:her father dies because of his escape from prison]].
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* OrphansOrdeal: Kathleen's story, especially after [[spoiler:her father dies because of his escape from prison]]. She's taken in by relatives, but some of them treat her as a servant and abuse her emotionally.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kathleen is living with her uncle's family because her father is in prison. [[spoiler:Then he dies in an ecape attempt, and things get worse]].
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* PunctuatedPounding: Duffie (the human WickedStepmother type) beats Tibbles (one of her cats) in this way for trespassing in the room where she keeps all her pottery. Since the victim of this incident is a cat, and the main character is a dog, this kind of incident with Duffie heads very quickly into literal KickTheDog territory.
* SentientStar: All stars have living spirits. The spirit of the star Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal dog. A few other star spirits also appear as characters, including the spirit of Earth's Sun.
* SentientStar: All stars have living spirits. The spirit of the star Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal dog. A few other star spirits also appear as characters, including the spirit of Earth's Sun.
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* DrowningUnwantedPets: Puppy Sirius and his littermates are thrown into a river shortly after they're born, because an unknown dog got in with their pedigree mother, making them worthless mongrels from a breeding perspective. [[spoiler:He later learns that the villain of the story persuaded their owner to this course, in the hope of cutting his mission on Earth short before it had properly begun]]. Several of the puppies survive, and Sirius meets some of his siblings again in later life, as well as eventually learning who -- and what -- their father was.
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Kathleen and Sirius - at least from her perspective.
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* BurningWithAnger: Sirius does this spectacularly as a star, and his eyes do it as a dog.
* CatsAreMean: Starts off this way, but they do mellow out part way through the story.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith
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* IWasNamedMyName: Subverted. In a world where stars are actually sentient creatures with godlike powers, Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal... a mortal ''dog'', to be precise. When he is later adopted by a young girl, she mulls over his name for a long time, but eventually settles on "Leo" -- lampshading it later, when she learns about 'The Dog-Star, Sirius' at school, and comments that it would've been a better name.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kathleen and Mrs. Smith.
* IWasNamedMyName: Subverted. In a world where stars are actually sentient creatures with godlike powers, Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal... a mortal ''dog'', to be precise. When he is later adopted by a young girl, she mulls over his name for a long time, but eventually settles on "Leo" -- lampshading it later, when she learns about 'The Dog-Star, Sirius' at school, and comments that it would've been a better name.
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** Subverted. In a world where stars are actually sentient creatures with godlike powers, Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal... a mortal ''dog'', to be precise. When he is later adopted by a young girl, she mulls over his name for a long time, but eventually settles on "Leo" -- lampshading it later, when she learns about 'The Dog-Star, Sirius' at school, and comments that it would've been a better name.
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** Subverted. In a world where stars are actually sentient creatures with godlike powers, Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal... a mortal ''dog'', to be precise. When he is later adopted by a young girl, she mulls over his name for a long time, but eventually settles on "Leo" -- lampshading it later, when she learns about 'The Dog-Star, Sirius' at school, and comments that it would've been a better name.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kathleen's cousins.
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A novel by Creator/DianaWynneJones. The guiding spirit of the star Sirius is framed for a murder and sentenced to reincarnation on Earth in the form of a dog, unless he can come up with the murder weapon (which also happens to be a very powerful MacGuffin).
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* BitterSweetEnding: See DeathByNewberyMedal, below. [[spoiler: Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly forever.]]
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* BitterSweetEnding: See DeathByNewberyMedal, below. [[spoiler: Sirius BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly forever.]]
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]].
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Sirius [[spoiler:Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]].
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* OrphansOrdeal: Kathleen's story, especially after [[spoiler: her father dies because of his escape from prison]].
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* OrphansOrdeal: Kathleen's story, especially after [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her father dies because of his escape from prison]].
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* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles: Kathleen's father is an imprisoned member of the IRA.
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* IWasNamedMyName: Subverted. In a world where stars are actually sentient creatures with godlike powers, Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal... a mortal ''dog'', to be precise. When he is later adopted by a young girl, she mulls over his name for a long time, but eventually settles on "Leo" -- lampshading it later, when she learns about 'The Dog-Star, Sirius' at school, and comments that it would've been a better name.
** Played straighter later in the book when Sirius meets Miss Smith, who is generally presented as wise and perceptive and who quickly decides that she's going to call him "Sirius".
** Played straighter later in the book when Sirius meets Miss Smith, who is generally presented as wise and perceptive and who quickly decides that she's going to call him "Sirius".
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Sirius can understand alot more english than most animals. Justified since he's not really a dog.
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* TheWildHunt: Sirius in his dog incarnation turns out to be related to them. So do most of the other dog characters.
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* TheWildHunt: Sirius in his dog incarnation turns out to be related to them. So do As Sirius's littermates, so are most of the other dog characters.
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* [[spoiler:TakingTheHeat]]: Sirius TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Sirius]] furiously denies having killed [[spoiler:killed the victim and thrown the Zoi at the witness. witness]]. But he won't provide an alternate story [[spoiler:because doing so would implicate his Companion.]]Companion]].
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* TantrumThrowing: The Castor luminary claims Sirius did this (and aimed to kill) with the Zoi when he discovered Sirius with the body of the young Orion luminary. The problem with this: [[spoiler:A Zoi has to be in someone's hands for him to kill with it, and it was Sirius' ''Companion'' who threw it as Sirius tried to wrestle it out of her hands.]]
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A novel by Creator/DianaWynneJones. The guiding spirit of the star Sirius is framed of a crime and sentenced to reincarnation on Earth, in the form of a dog, unless he can come up with the murder weapon (which also happens to be a very powerful MacGuffin).
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A novel by Creator/DianaWynneJones. The guiding spirit of the star Sirius is framed of for a crime murder and sentenced to reincarnation on Earth, Earth in the form of a dog, unless he can come up with the murder weapon (which also happens to be a very powerful MacGuffin).
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Kathleen and Sirius--at least from her perspective.
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Kathleen and Sirius--at Sirius - at least from her perspective.
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A novel by Creator/DianaWynneJones. The guiding spirit of the star Sirius is framed of a crime and sentenced to reincarnation on Earth, in the form of a dog, unless he can come up with the murder weapon (which also happens to be a very powerful MacGuffin).
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!!Tropes featured include:
* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Kathleen and Sirius--at least from her perspective.
* AbusiveParents: Duffy.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Sirius can understand alot more english than most animals. Justified since he's not really a dog.
* BalefulPolymorph: Sirius as dog
* BitterSweetEnding: See DeathByNewberyMedal, below. [[spoiler: Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly forever.]]
* CatsAreMean: Starts off this way, but they do mellow out part way through the story.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith
* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]].
* EvilMatriarch: Duffy
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kathleen
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kathleen's cousins.
* MacGuffin: The Zoi.
* OrphansOrdeal: Kathleen's story, especially after [[spoiler: her father dies because of his escape from prison]].
* TheTroubles: Kathleen's father is an imprisoned member of the IRA.
* TheWildHunt: Sirius in his dog incarnation turns out to be related to them.
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!!Tropes featured include:
* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Kathleen and Sirius--at least from her perspective.
* AbusiveParents: Duffy.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Sirius can understand alot more english than most animals. Justified since he's not really a dog.
* BalefulPolymorph: Sirius as dog
* BitterSweetEnding: See DeathByNewberyMedal, below. [[spoiler: Sirius achieves his goals and he finds a better home for Kathleen, but the two are separated, possibly forever.]]
* CatsAreMean: Starts off this way, but they do mellow out part way through the story.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Smith
* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Sirius (again, from Kathleen's perspective--he actually becomes a star again, but he leaves behind his dog-body as a corpse and it's clear that she thinks of him as dead)]].
* EvilMatriarch: Duffy
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kathleen
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kathleen's cousins.
* MacGuffin: The Zoi.
* OrphansOrdeal: Kathleen's story, especially after [[spoiler: her father dies because of his escape from prison]].
* TheTroubles: Kathleen's father is an imprisoned member of the IRA.
* TheWildHunt: Sirius in his dog incarnation turns out to be related to them.
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