#this dog is my boyfriend but we're indulging this wizard to see if he can help and also find out what the FUCK he's doin

[dwarven-beard-spores]

Howl and the Guitar...

okay so we all know Howl buys a guitar he can't afford, and he takes it when he visits Lettie and plays it for her even though he can't play a guitar and trash wizard thinks he's so cool, etc.

but ALSO

Howl bought the guitar specifically because it was BEN'S. Because he was looking for him, and he might not have known the details but he knew Something was going up with her dog that was definitely enchanted.

And so he takes the guitar to Lettie's under the pretense of courtship but he's also trying to figure out if Ben Suliman is in there somewhere and maybe the guitar will help...?

So please imagine with me a scene of Lettie going in to get some lemonade and leaving Howl in the garden, whereupon Howl offers the guitar to the dog to sniff, going "hey, boy. Man. Remember this? Is this yours?" and strumming the guitar for a deeply unimpressed enchanted Percival. (trash wizard thinks he's so cool, etc.)