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The Grand High Witch is the most terrifying witch of them all, she is their ruler and strikes fear even in the hearts of witches. After her grandson is forever transformed into a mouse, she remains a kind and loving figure. She is an expert on witches and tells her grandson countless stories to protect him. The narrator’s grandmother is a story-telling, cigar-smoking, brave character. Though the boy remains a mouse, the story ends happily. Once he is turned into a mouse, the boy hatches a plan to save all the children in England from a similar fate and successfully wipes out all the witches of England.

Thanks to his grandmother’s stories, the boy is able to identify witches in disguise (though he is turned into a mouse). Like the heroes in many of Dahl’s other stories, the narrator is a brave, kind and intelligent child. The narrator of the story is known simply as the boy.