History Headscratchers / TheChroniclesOfNarnia

* I do remember reading and hearing quite frequently that all Lewis claimed to have been doing was "writing books [he] would have liked to have read". It's entirely possible this was just talk, but the whole "Chronicles of Narnia = Christian propoganda" slant does strike this humble troper as a somewhat simple and childish theory that hints at conspiracy.

** As I understand it, his lesser known, more adult focused Silent Planet series is a lot more blatant about having Christian elements with the Devil being the antagonist, but it's still very earnest scifi.

*** In The Last Battle, it's made clear that when Aslan told the older children that they'd never go back to Narnia, "he meant the Narnia you were thinking of", as opposed to the "true Narnia" through the stable door. This shows that Aslan is willing to say things that, if treated with excessive pedantry, turn out to be false, but which still communicate the (true) thing he wants to say. This may be one of those situations. I don't have my copy of the book available to check, but if I recall correctly Lucy first asks Aslan to tell her "what would have happened [...if she hadn't done the thing she shouldn't have]"; Aslan then tells her that no one is ever told "what would have happened", leaving the second bit of the sentence unsaid just as Lucy had.
** The difference this troper sees is thus: In the case of Diggory, the effects of eating the stolen apple were certain. If someone stole one for ill gain, only bad would come of it, even if there were good intentions behind it. It was a certainty. In the other cases, things were more uncertain. For example, Lucy asks Aslan "If I had gone to you earlier, would all of this trouble been avoided?". In that case, there were many other factors, many other wills at work, and it probably would have been too difficult to say whether or not doing different actions would have helped or caused things to somehow turn worse. There's the factor of human will involved.

In the book, she considers that. Edmund notices she takes a stance like she's about to kill or attack him (probably turn him to stone) and then "seems to change her mind." Deciding to sacrifice that opportunity for the chance to get him to bring her the other 3 didn't work out in her favor, but it must have seemed smart at the time. 4 dead humans are a better insurance policy than 1, and the terms of the prophecy didn't specify the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve had to be siblings, so killing one wouldn't render the "set," so to speak, harmless.

*** The Winter Solstice is the return/rebirth of the Sun. Christmas was placed as it was BECAUSE of the various pagan Solstice holidays; think of it as the Christian Winter Solstice. It's a stealth metaphor. By stopping Christmas from coming, Jadis is keeping the Sun ([[IncrediblyLamePun "Son"]] aka Aslan) from coming back.

* At the end of ''Prince Caspian'' she is told by Aslan that she's never returning to Narnia (unlike Lucy and Edmund who return to that world in ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''); also she's fallen in love with Caspian so even if she did go back he'd be long dead so the best, least painful thing to do is to forget she ever went there. She was always the most doubtful of the four siblings anyway, so it was probably easy for her. This reminds me of how [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Elastigirl]] went from an ActionGirl to housewife in few years once all the heroes were banned: since she couldn't be a heroine she redirected her energy towards a normal life (well, as normal as having a superpowered family can be).

* I may have forgotten something from the text but I always sort of assumed that she went into her weird magical catatonia with those other people pretty soon after her genocide. I mean, why would she have stuck around long? [[PyrrhicVillainy Everyone was dead. There was no one left to rule over.]] [[VictoryIsBoring I don't think there would be very much else she'd be interested in there anymore either, which is why she went into her little enchanted slumber, waiting for someone living to come around.]] She wouldn't likely have been around the dead bodies long enough to be exposed to their cooties for a dangerous amount of time. As for earth's own infections, she's half-djinn and half-giantess, so I don't know if she's vulnerable to the same diseases as us anyway (not that she was here for very long, so it wouldn't matter much), but if she is then for that very reason, that same similar biology, she would stand the same chances of infection as any of us. Maybe she wouldn't have built up any immunity, but most of us haven't built up as much to the common diseases as the OP poster seems to think either, and had she got anything, by the time it would have really set in she would have already eaten that apple.