However, after that his father snatched him out of the school and took him to be privately tutored in magic by a man named Dr. Pawson. Christopher was quite upset by this, since he would not get to see his friends anymore, and he had never been able to do any magic during his lessons at school. Dr. Pawson is convinced that he should be able to, however, citing the fact that he came back to life after being brained with a cricket bat, meaning he has multiple lives to go around and is, therefore, a (rather powerful) magic-user. After a lot of frustration, Pawson tells Christopher to empty his pockets, which he does, and promptly takes the roof off the place. The problem was with the silver he'd been carrying. When in contact with it, he is completely powerless (as well as constrained to telling nothing but the truth).
As it turns out, Christopher has nine lives, marking him as a powerful enchanter, and next in line to inherit the title of Chrestomanci. Chrestomanci is a post in charge of regulating the use of magic throughout the 'related worlds,' making sure no one misuses it, and that ordinary people have rights and are protected. Christopher is then sent to Chrestomanci castle to apprentice under the current Chrestomanci, a dour man called Gabriel de Witt. Christopher hates the castle and everyone in it for being so boring and adult, he misses his school friends, the Goddess Asheth, and cricket. Eventually, though, he is able to break through the spell preventing him from getting to the Place Between, he discovers that the castle has a cricket team that plays on weekends, and, after a while and several misadventures, settles into his role as the future Chrestomanci.
Eventually he marries the Goddess Asheth (called Millie now that she is in Christopher's world and no longer a living avatar) and has two children, Julia and Roger. He finds his own replacement one day in a boy named Eric Chant (a relation, the son of two of his cousins), called Cat on account of his nine lives. Although Cat's older sister Gwendolen causes all manner of problems, thanks to her dreams of world domination, Christopher takes Cat in as part of the Family, to be taught magic and prepare him for his own role as the future Chrestomanci.
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As it turns out, Christopher has nine lives, marking him as a powerful enchanter, and next in line to inherit the title of Chrestomanci. Chrestomanci is a post in charge of regulating the use of magic throughout the 'related worlds,' making sure no one misuses it, and that ordinary people have rights and are protected. Christopher is then sent to Chrestomanci castle to apprentice under the current Chrestomanci, a dour man called Gabriel de Witt. Christopher hates the castle and everyone in it for being so boring and adult, he misses his school friends, the Goddess Asheth, and cricket. Eventually, though, he is able to break through the spell preventing him from getting to the Place Between, he discovers that the castle has a cricket team that plays on weekends, and, after a while and several misadventures, settles into his role as the future Chrestomanci.
Eventually he marries the Goddess Asheth (called Millie now that she is in Christopher's world and no longer a living avatar) and has two children, Julia and Roger. He finds his own replacement one day in a boy named Eric Chant (a relation, the son of two of his cousins), called Cat on account of his nine lives. Although Cat's older sister Gwendolen causes all manner of problems, thanks to her dreams of world domination, Christopher takes Cat in as part of the Family, to be taught magic and prepare him for his own role as the future Chrestomanci.