I need some answers.

[Citronella143]

Something's been troubling me.

At the end of the Magicians Nephew, King Frank and Queen Helen live happily ever after in Narnia with their children.
Digory heals his mother and makes a wardrobe.

What happends to Polly?
And How do the four children (peter, edmund, susan, and lucy) play into this story?
Do they have any relation to Polly or Digory at all?
Were they sent to the professor's house at random?

The last thing the book said about Polly is that they stayed great friends and she visited him every holidays at his house and learned to ride, swim, back, and climb.

This has been on my mind since I saw Narnia. Lucy said her mothers name is Helen, if that has anything to do with it. But maybe thats a coincidence, or maybe her mother was named after the first Queen.
Until I get some answers I'll be wondering...

[Puzzle dear]

Something's been troubling me.

At the end of the Magicians Nephew, King Frank and Queen Helen live happily ever after in Narnia with their children.
Digory heals his mother and makes a wardrobe.

What happends to Polly?
And How do the four children (peter, edmund, susan, and lucy) play into this story?
Do they have any relation to Polly or Digory at all?
Were they sent to the professor's house at random?

The last thing the book said about Polly is that they stayed great friends and she visited him every holidays at his house and learned to ride, swim, back, and climb.

This has been on my mind since I saw Narnia. Lucy said her mothers name is Helen, if that has anything to do with it. But maybe thats a coincidence, or maybe her mother was named after the first Queen.
Until I get some answers I'll be wondering...
Polly ends up in the true Narnia with the rest of the gang, Digory was the professor whom the kids lived with during the war, and I think Helen was a common name in those days. Hope I was of some help.

[Citronella143]

ah, good to hear she ends up well.

great help thanks
but i still dont understand how the kids come into the story.
was it by chance? (I mean, I know it's like.. their destiny)
but did Professor digory intend for those certain kids to stay with him?

[Puzzle dear]

I think he volunteered to take them in, he just didn't know they would come upon Narnia.

[inkspot]

The movie implies the professor patriotically offered to take in children fleeing the blitz in London. It's not spelled out whether their families had any prior acquaintance, but in later books we read about the professor tutoring Peter for school, so we know they remained friendly. In the beginning of LWW, Lewis just says the children were sent there and doesn't say much about how they happened to be sent to the professor rather than somewhere else.

If you read MN before you read (or see) LWW, then it would be confusing, but if you see (or read) LWW first, it doesn't occur to you to ask what the relationship between Diggory, Polly and the Pevensies can be, cuz you aren't really aware of Digs and Polly and their adventure in Narnia at all -- it's a big surprise when the professor believes in Narnia ... if you haven't read MN yet, you don't even know that he has already been there. This is another reason I like publication order rather than chronological order.

I think Adamson and the scriptwriters pulled "Helen" out of the blue as a name for Mrs. Pevensie, I don't remember anyone mentioning it in the books.

[lionessofgod]

I had the same thing on my mind, too. Well, that's a very good thing, don't you think? To be able to stay in Narnia? That would be paradise!

[EveningStar]

Polly, of course, went to the New Narnia by and by.

She saw Aslan. That is more than I got to do, and I have lived a full life thus far. Imagine her joy just to see him. And once she looked in his eyes, she became even more his than she was the moment before.