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  • Mrs. Proust makes a comment about preparing medication for Sergeant Angua's "hardpad", which leads Tiffany to realize Angua's a werewolf. Hardpad is an older term for canine distemper... a viral infection that is normally fatal to puppies and kills about 50% of the older dogs that catch it. It not only causes problems with a dog's paws, but also with the entire digestive system. Poor Angua, the vegetarian werewolf by day and eater of Ankh Morpork's suspicious meat industry by night, is now paying the price for being a city werewolf.
  • I wondered why I Shall Wear Midnight portrayed Nanny Ogg more like Tiffany's mentor - anyone who read just that book, and not Wintersmith or A Hat Full of Sky wouldn't realize Granny Weatherwax was her real mentor. But when I finished the book, I realized: there's matchmaking, family affairs, weddings, and romances all over the book, and that is Nanny Ogg's territory (that of the Mother) entirely. - vifetoile
  • You (Granny's cat is named that, not YOU you) is described as blinking slowly at Tiffany, then looking away. This is an extremely high compliment in Feline; of course Pratchett the Kindhearted Cat Lover would not have You doing this gesture by accident or mistaking it for disdain. Especially since Tiffany is the one who not only rescued You from the closed-up house of the dead Widow Cable, but also introduced You to Granny and You's new forever-home.

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