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Not if Tiffany can help it, though.

 

* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Parent]]: Mr. Petty

* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: According to Tiffany, the trick {{spoiler|Letitia}} used should never have worked. Only the latter's firm belief in what she was doing allowed it to function. {{spoiler|That and the influence of a malevolent dark power that came through a book in her library.}}

* [[Bungled Suicide]]: Mr. Petty.

* [[Burn the Witch]]

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: It's Pratchett, so there are a number of them. One particularly subtle one is the revelation that Daft Wullie carries matches and sometimes uses them to start fires at ''really'' inappropriate moments (such as when high up in the air on a broomstick). You think it's just another example of Daft Wullie being [[The Fool|Daft Wullie]], but at the climax of the books, his fondness for matches play a small, but vital, role.

* [[Continuity Nod]]:

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: the Baron, even on his deathbed.

* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]

* [[Exact Words]]: Tiffany really does {{spoiler|marry Roland. [[My Own Private I Do|To Letitia]].}}

* [[Eyeless Face]]: The Cunning Man has a curious variation of this trope: not smooth skin or empty sockets, but simply holes where his eyes should be, through which you can see what's behind his head. In [[Discworld]], where eyes are literally the mirror of the soul, this is a very bad thing indeed.

* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: Letitia. Even Tiffany's a bit scared of the ghosts at Keepsake Manor, but Letitia helped them without a second thought.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Tiffany's hygiene trick.

** Petty to Tiffany: "What are you going to do when the music comes for ''you'', eh?"

* [[Generation Xerox]]: It turns out that <s>Granny Aching</s> Sarah Grizzel and the Baron had much the same (non) relationship as Tiffany and Roland.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Amber and {{spoiler|Letitia}}.

* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Preston.

* [[I Just Want to Be Special|I Just Want To Be A Witch]]: Letitia.

* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: Rob Anyboy's excuse for helping Tiffany out. Not a straight example since they aren't rivals, however she had told him repeatedly to stop following her around.

{{quote|'''Wee Mad Arthur:''' "...ye are a bunch of thieving drunken reprobates with no respect for the law whatsoever!"

'''Rob Anybody:''' "Would you no' mind adding the words drunk and disorderly? We wouldnae want to be sold short here." }}

* [[Irony]]: 'Cunning Man' is actually a fairly old term for a 'wise man', in essence a type of male not-quite witch.

* [[I Was Young and Needed the Money]]: Letitia's mother {{spoiler|used to be a Music Hall girl in her youth.}}

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: The Duchess towards Letitia.

* [[My Own Private I Do]]: {{spoiler|Tiffany marries Letitia and Roland in a folk ceremony the night before the official wedding}}.

* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: If someone is a loyal servant to Letitia's family they will be taken care of in old age.

** Ironically, the Duchess isn't nice at all to anyone beneath her social status, but damn if she's not going to care for everybody in her employment, regardless. Apparently the reason why they need hundreds of servants is because a fair number of them are in fact needed to tend to those servants too old to work.

* [[Retcon]]: When Wee Mad Arthur was introduced, he had all the basic characteristics of a Feegle except the criminal tendencies, but was referred to as a gnome, presumably because he showed up before the idea of the Feegles really took form. In this book, it turns out that he was a foundling, raised by a family of gnomes.

* [[Running Gag]]: Broomsticks being towed by a string, continuing from ''Wintersmith'', and the idea of witches "dancing around without your drawers on".

* [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]]: The Cunning Man's origin story.

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Tiffany and Roland. Despite what the last three books [[Implied Love Interest|seemed to be setting up]], it turns out being two outcasts who've been put through hell by fairies isn't ''quite'' enough to build a relationship on.

** She is also a shout out to the Larry Williams song "Short Fat Fanny".

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: The Cunning Man, towards witches.

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: Roland doesn't seem to be aware that "fortuitously" means "coincidentally."

 

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