Calcifer replies: 'He's made that way,' Sophie has a pain in her heart, and says to Calcifer that he won't understand because he hasn't got one, he replies: 'Yes I do!', as he in fact has Howl's heart. Calcifer replies to Sophie 'Heartless Howl is finding this lady rather tough.' Sophie comments 'It's heartless and pointless' in regard to Howl's courtship habits. 'Howl is pretty heartless, you know.' Howl has gone out to court Lettie.

He also says that his contract with Howl isn't doing either of them any good.Д«ecause Howl is reputed to eat the heart of pretty girls, he says to Sophie: 'Don't you seriously want your heart eaten?' Calcifer comments on this a number of times. He does tell her that he cannot move out of the hearth, as the contract binds him there, and that he does most of the strong magic like moving the castle. Sophie agrees, on the terms that Calcifer break her spell in return, and that Calcifer drops her hints about the contract, since he isn't allowed to talk about it directly. He allows Sophie to enter the castle because he can sense her ability to talk life into things, which makes her a perfect person to lift the contract between himself and Howl. However, Howl's statement is true in more ways than one.Д¬alcifer first appears on Sophie's first night in the castle, although his magic can be seen earlier, as he is the one shooting off fireworks on May Day. Howl describes Calcifer as 'his weakest point', because Calcifer wouldn't give away another demon if it entered the castle, even if it had hostile intentions. He promises to use his magic to break the curse on Sophie, providing she breaks the contract between him and Howl. Although he is bound to the hearth, he has a great amount of magic. As the result of a mysterious bargain with Howl some years ago he agrees to heat and power the castle. He has tiny licks of flame that serve as arms.Д¬alcifer is Howl's resident fire demon. He appears as a teardrop-shaped flame, blue in the books and orange-red in the movie, colored differently in different places in such a way as to make a face. He is a very powerful creature himself, with a great deal of magical ability, though cannot move beyond the confines of the hearth in which Howl keeps him without the wizard's help. He used to be a falling star, whom Howl was able to catch before he fell to earth and extinguished.

Calcifer is a Fire Demon in a magical contract with Wizard Howl.

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