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Quote #10
Certainly the scarecrow was just standing there. It was not trying to barge inside as it had before. And Calcifer must have trusted it. He had stopped the castle moving. Sophie looked at the turnip face and the fluttering rags. It was not so frightening after all. She had once had fellow feeling for it. She rather suspected that she had just made it into a convenient excuse for not leaving the castle because she had really wanted to stay. Now there was no point. Sophie had to leave anyway: Howl preferred Miss Angorian. (20.84)
Again Sophie is letting her own assumptions carry her away—she thinks she has to leave the moving castle because Howl must prefer Miss Angorian. What's more, she never thought to ask the scarecrow what he wanted; she was just so terrified of him on sight that she insisted he go away. In fact, a lot of Sophie's mistakes come from this tendency she has to jump to conclusions without talking to anybody else.