Chapter 3: "The Mysterious past of Sophie Hatter"
Sophie Hatter in early childhood was a very shy girl, was the older of two sisters Lettie and Martha, but it was the darling of his father Mr. Hatter.
Sophie didn't have a close relationship with hers mother named Honey because she only spent time with Lettie and Martha, Sophie felt ugly because in comparison to her sisters it was.
When Sophie was 14 years old his father died leaving Honey in charge of his precious hat store, the death of Mr. Hatter was very hard for Sophie.
Mr. Hatter died of an unknown illness, after his death Sophie ran away from home but just at the time the war had begun and was waiting for the train when a bomb fell very close to it, Sophie was unconscious for several days and then when she woke up her personality changed, she became rebellious, at 17 years old she was another person, her mother Honey was very concerned at such personality change.
One day Sophie was going to asking for money to her sister Lettie, who was beginning to work in a bakery very elegant in the center of town, it was about 8 pm and then Sophie saw Lettie trying to be abused by two men, Sophie didn't know what to do, she heard the cries of distress of her sister, so she took the gun was in the back pocket of one of the men and shot them.
Sophie was shocked several months, was a great event to be forgotten, had killed two people, however bad they had been, so the police understood the situation and be freed from punishment to her.
Shortly before she react Sophie turned 18 years old and became a shy and submissive just as in her childhood, her sister Martha now studying abroad and her mother Honey traveled the world with the money her father had left them, Sophie had no choice but to stay in charge of the hat store while visited every day to her sister Lettie to see that everything was fine, but one day she was visiting her sister when a soldiers began to flirt with it scared all walked away and that's when Howl rescue her.
She didn't know who was Howl but Howl knew who she was, even took weeks following it, finding the perfect time to meet her.
After that magical encounter he disappeared and was intending to meet her that night but when he went to see it he realized that the witch of the waste assistants stalked near there, so he decided to return to the castle.
Don't worry Howl... She will come so soon. Calcifer whispered.
And indeed Calcifer was right, together they would live the greatest adventure of their lives, clear that Howl wasn't going to tell Sophie what was in the black colored disc that was in the magic door of the castle, only he knew what the dark and mysterious place was, I would say too mysterious...