Having finished reading The Big Meow I had a few things from earlier books I wanted to check back on. It's been quite a while since I read The Book of Night With Moon, so I've picked it up again. It was the very first of Diane's books I read, before even So You Want To Be A Wizard, and, consequently, there are some things that now make a bit more sense to me than they likely did the first time through. Of course, there are other things I'm now wondering, and the first is this:
As cats have nine lives, and seem to carry at least some knowledge from one to the next, I wonder how much wizardry cats carry from life to life. Do they have an Ordeal in each of their wizardly lives, or just in the first wizardly one, and iif they're a wizard in one are they inevitably a wizard in the next.
(Answers may, of course, be found in later books, and I've read all three so it won't bother me, but it's probably polite to spoiler-protect anything particularly revelatory in case someone reading TBONWM for the first time wanders through.)
As cats have nine lives, and seem to carry at least some knowledge from one to the next, I wonder how much wizardry cats carry from life to life. Do they have an Ordeal in each of their wizardly lives, or just in the first wizardly one, and iif they're a wizard in one are they inevitably a wizard in the next.
(Answers may, of course, be found in later books, and I've read all three so it won't bother me, but it's probably polite to spoiler-protect anything particularly revelatory in case someone reading TBONWM for the first time wanders through.)
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