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* Lancre as a whole gets one when it shoots down Diamanda's claims to be a better witch than Granny: She'd challenged Granny to a staring contest. Against the ''sun''. Midway through, one of Nanny Ogg's grandkids wanders in between them and starts crying, and Granny breaks off to check on him. The young witches say that Diamanda clearly won, because Granny looked away. Nanny Ogg and the rest of the town set them straight:

{{quote|'''Nanny Ogg''': This is not a contest about power, you stupid girls, it is a contest about witchcraft. Do you even begin to know what being a witch IS?

** Nanny, of course, would ''thoroughly deny'' [[Magnificent Bastard|having lured the child into the ring]] by use of a cunningly deployed bag of sweets at the crucial moment...

* Nanny Ogg has a few outstanding moments as a [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]]. What makes her truly talented is her ability to hide that status, ''even from Granny Weatherwax'', and only using it when she has to. It's been implied that she's at ''least'' as powerful as Granny, but less driven.

** It's been stated at least once that the fact that Nanny can turn it off and just be a disgusting old baggage who doesn't raise any kind of suspicion (except of being drunk, perhaps) is the very factor that makes her ''more'' powerful than Granny. Think about that for a bit.

* From when [[Beware the Nice Ones|Magrat]] dons the fearsomely bosomy armor of {{spoiler|the entirely fictional}} Queen Ynci to when she confronts the Queen of the Fairies to get her husband back. As noted by one character: "[[Beware the Nice Ones|Magrat always was the nice soft one... ...who'd just fired a crossbow through a keyhole.]]" When someone was looking through it.

* Granny saving Diamanda from her own stupid mistake and bodily hauling her back to Lancre while being shot at by elves.

 

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