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Charmed Life
- Roger's amusement at the pranks Gwendolen pulls in the Castle.
- The prank Gwendolen pulls in the church: animating the figures in the stained glass windows. The preacher doesn't notice a thing until she also animates a statue of a knight.
- Mary's account of what happened when Gwendolen messed with the eggs and bread as they were being brought into the Castle one morning.Mary: Roberts thought he'd gone mad when he found he was cutting away at an old boot. So Cook cuts another, and next moment she and Nancy are trying to climb on the same chair because of all those white mice. But it was Mr. Frazier's face that made me laugh the most, when he says 'Let me' and finds himself chipping at a stone. Then the—Euphemia: Don't encourage her. You know what she's like.
The Lives Of Christopher Chant
- Two moments after Christopher "dies" from being hit in the head by a cricket bat:[at the morgue] What do you mean by locking this door? Everybody's dead in here, they're not going to run away!For half an hour after that, the hospital was in total confusion, while everybody tried to catch a five-foot-tall corpse clothed mostly in a flying sheet, which raced up and down the corridors shrieking that it was missing cricket practice.
- All of Dr. Pawson's scenes.
Witch Week
- This knitting - is really two little caretaker's dogs.
- Pretty much anything Simon does during the Simon Says spell.
- The obstructive teacher is ranting at the heroes. Chrestomanci sighs, and puts his hand down on her desk; she vanishes.Student: Where did you send her?Chrestomanci: [lifts his hand to reveal the headmistress' calendar] Next Tuesday, I believe.
Conrad's Fate
- Christopher and Conrad trying to get Mr. Maxim to take them on a tour of the wine cellars. It doesn't work.
- "I tell you for once and for all that there is no wine that goes with bacon and eggs!"
- Christopher considers getting drunk after not being able to bring back Millie on his first try. He's 15 at the time.
- "One could get awfully drunk here," Christopher remarked, surveying a dusty wall of bottles marked Nuits d’été 1848. "I have quite a mind to drown my sorrows, Grant. I saw Millie. I talked to her. Do you know how to open champagne?"
- Christopher's solution to Millie being bullied at boarding school.
- "And Christopher was just as overbearing as I knew he would be. You know, "My dear Millie, set your mind at rest and I will fix it" – and this time he was worse. He decided we were going to go and live together on an island in Series Five. And when I said I wasn't sure I wanted to go and live all alone with Christopher – well, would you want to, Conrad?"
- Made even funnier by the fact that Millie and Christopher end up Happily Married with two kids.
- Millie telling Conrad about Christopher's solution is followed by the two of them tearing Christopher's character to shreds.
The Pinhoe Egg
- When Chrestomanci went missing, everyone was deathly worried, most of all Millie. When he reappears, she's the first to fling her arms around him, followed by the entire castle who crowd around and ask if he's all right. This Heartwarming Moment is then heartily interrupted by Chrestomanci himself.
- Chrestomanci: No, I am not all right! I have world wide blisters. I need a shave. I'm tired out and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel all right in my position?
