Late one night in 1605, a soldier named Guy Fawkes was caught with some two tons of gunpowder that he had smuggled into a cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament in London. He has to have a strong personality as well as strong magic. This enchanter has nine lives and is known as “the Chrestomanci.” You pronounce it KREST-OH-MAN-SEE. So the government appoints the very strongest enchanter there is to make sure no one misuses magic. Now, if someone did not control all these busy magic-users, ordinary people would have a horrible time and probably end up as slaves. Their magic is different and stronger and many of them have more than one life. Enchanters are strange as well as powerful. It is full of people working magic-warlocks, witches, thaumaturges, sorcerers, fakirs, conjurors, hexers, magicians, mages, shamans, diviners and many more-from the lowest Certified witch right up to the most powerful of enchanters. Chrestomanci’s world is the one next door to us, and the difference here is that magic is as common as music is with us. THERE ARE THOUSANDS of worlds, all different from ours. The Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones: An Interview
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