The worst part is, if you’ve read The Magician’s Nephew, he has literally been to this world already. What exactly does the professor wish that people learned in school? To believe in something despite the evidence? Maybe that tells you something about trends in modern politics, but I don’t want to get too much into that here. Oh I don’t know, like…believe your eyes and there’s no such thing as magic? It’s a weird thing. Maybe she just imagined it and wanted to share it with you? Then, when the conversation is over, we hear the professor talking to himself after their encounter, wondering what they’re teaching kids at school these days. Unpacking this logic in the reverse implies that if she’s not being entirely truthful, she must be crazy. There’s way more nuance even to real life conspiracy theories than this, and there’s less sexist ways to frame the conversation about your female sibling acting weird. However, when the children go to the professor, he begins by giving them a false dichotomy: Either your sister is crazy or she is telling the truth. Maybe there’s more than meets the eye here. So you might ask yourself, maybe this wasn’t the intention.
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