he's welsh and he's a rugby lad

The fact that Howl actually plays Welsh rugby kills me. During the first part of the book I imagined him as a tall, skinny guy but then it was mentioned that he plays rugby. R u g b y.

howl [interview while he's messing with potions in his shed]: what do i think of sophie? well. she's my cleaning lady. she cleans a lot of stuff. she cleaned my bathroom the other day. i hate it when people touch my stuff. for example one time michael came in and tried to do a spell but he moved the sulphur so i accidentally used dried lemon zest instead and the entire shed blew up. i lost both my eyebrows and calcifer was sick for three days. i cried for weeks. magic is very touchy stuff, you know. a lot of people don't realize how careful you have to be. one time -

In the movie:

Movie Howl: *heart eyes*

imagine: you’re enjoying dinner, listening to your friend wax poetic about florence vs. venetian art, on some kind of vague silver high due to your allergy to your cutlery, when suddenly you see in the windows your nephew’s past life where he drowned piteously mouthing and lurching against the glass and you know without a shadow of a doubt that it’s your niece’s doing because she’s pissy you didn’t punish her or yell at her for being a total bitch and ruining the lawn this morning