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== At the end of ''Maskerade'', Walter Plinge drove Agnes away from the Opera on purpose. ==

'''Spoilers''': He was the one to whom Mrs. Plinge referred by "he said he wanted ''someone'' to watch the opera" (emphasis Nigel Planer's, if it wasn;t in the hardcopy). This likely started back when the Opera House was comparatively new, likely around the time The Disk was built, and "singing-plays based on Dwarfish theater" would be even more of a risk of customer unavailability than the commoner plays. He always stayed in Box 8, even when the Opera House became popular amongst the rich of Ankh-Morpork. He wore the disguise so that the members of the Opera would feel better having a Mystery Patron than just the janitor watching them. {{spoiler|Once Walter was old enough to be away from his mum and keep quiet for a few hours, he brought him along, and started teaching him the words to the Opera. Walter sang along without thinking thanks to being an operatic virtuoso, and eventually, once Mr. Plinge died, sang to himself (hence why the music "came from the walls")}}.

 

Mr. Pounder's new rodent incarnation would've been born in Ankh-Morpork, close enough to the University to scavenge its refuse (thus aquiring intelligence and a longer lifespan) just a few years before the Educated Rodents met Maurice and left town. Darktan's exceptional talents for identifying and disarming traps are appropriate for someone who, in his previous life, had won the Golden Mallet for the most rats caught for five years running. Having killed so many rats as a human, yet always respected them as worthy opponents, it's only fair for him to spend his rodent life teaching inexperienced young Trap Disposal Squad members how to elude ratcatchers' devices. And by helping to foil the pair of ''corrupt'' ratcatchers in Bad Blintz, he not only avenged their abuses of ''keekees'' and Changelings, but he also got to punish them for being a disgrace to his former profession.

 

 

== Christine is actually a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]. ==

 

As for the whole "can't sing a note" thing, she either [[Giftedly Bad|has an exaggerated opinion of her ability to sing]], or is just ''pretending'' to be dreadful so she can "miraculously" become a great singer (once she's frustrated her more musically gifted rival Agnes into quitting the opera, that is); it's been noted in other Discworld books that sometimes you have to be really good to appear to be really bad. This also means she was pretending not to notice that Agnes was "ghosting" her during the opera, .

As for why she hid from the voice of the Phantom behind the mirror, she just didn't want to get involved in any dangerously tragic romances with a deformed stranger, which is what she assumed would happen if she got involved with the Phantom because, again, she's [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]. Though this makes it look like Christine is throwing Agnes to the metaphorical wolves by letting ''her'' get involved with the Phantom instead...

 

She's beautiful, and seems to capture the love and attention of everyone around her except Agnes, who ends up jealous of her good looks and annoyed with her self-centered vapidity; since Agnes is a witch, albeit a reluctant one, she's resistant to Christine's low-level glamour. And much like the Fair Folk, Christine has no musical talent whatsoever.

* Discworld elves can ''sing'' well; it's ''playing'' music that they suck at.

 

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