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* WizardWorkshop: Downplayed with Uncle Andrew's study, previously unseen by Digory, which is on the top floor of Digory's house, and is described as containing many books, a microscope, and of course, the magic rings. Uncle Andrew describes himself as a great scholar and magician.

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* WizardWorkshop: Downplayed with Uncle Andrew's attic study, previously unseen by Digory, which is on the top floor of Digory's house, and is described as containing many books, a microscope, and of course, the magic rings. While Uncle Andrew describes himself as a great scholar and magician.magician, Jadis describes him as a little, peddling magician who works by rules and books, which is reflected by his study.
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* WizardWorkshop: Downplayed with Uncle Andrew's study, previously unseen by Digory, which is on the top floor of Digory's house, and is described as containing many books, a microscope, and of course, the magic rings. Uncle Andrew describes himself as a great scholar and magician.
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* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The bell Digory just ''[[SchmuckBait has]]'' to ring. Not only for what it causes, but the way it sounds: a sweet note which gets louder and louder, instead of dying away, and one of its ''lesser'' causes is for some of the walls of the building to collapse.
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* ThePowerOfCreation: chronologically the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia, this depicts the moment when Aslan 'sung' Narnia into existence, bringing life to everything and everyone that lived in it at the beginning of the world. As a side-effect, even objects 'planted' in the earth at this time will grow into larger things, such as an iron bar becoming a replica of the lamp-post it was torn from or a few coins becoming literal money trees. This is explicitly stated to be the source of one of ''Lion/Witch/Wardrobe''[='s=] biggest mysteries: the lamp post. Jadis unwittingly brought a bar from an English lamp with her to Narnia and tried to attack Aslan with it; the bar was imbued with a life force where it fell, and it grew into a brand new lamp post. Similarly, coins from Andrew's pockets grow into two small trees of gold and silver. When asked about this by Polly, Aslan elaborates that this new life will cease after a few days and Narnia will be a more normal world from then on.

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* ThePowerOfCreation: chronologically the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia, this depicts the moment when Aslan 'sung' 'sang' Narnia into existence, bringing life to everything and everyone that lived in it at the beginning of the world. As a side-effect, even objects 'planted' in the earth at this time will grow into larger things, such as an iron bar becoming a replica of the lamp-post it was torn from or a few coins becoming literal money trees. This is explicitly stated to be the source of one of ''Lion/Witch/Wardrobe''[='s=] biggest mysteries: the lamp post. Jadis unwittingly brought a bar from an English lamp with her to Narnia and tried to attack Aslan with it; the bar was imbued with a life force where it fell, and it grew into a brand new brand-new lamp post. Similarly, coins from Andrew's pockets grow into two small trees of gold and silver. When asked about this by Polly, Aslan elaborates that this new life will cease after a few days and Narnia will be a more normal world from then on.
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* AdamAndEvePlot: Frank and his wife Nellie become the Adam and Eve of Narnia. It's not played entirely straight; their children and descendants marry native magical races, and by the time Jadis returns nobody that qualifies as (or identifies as) human is left in Narnia itself. The humans in Archenland and Calormene are also their descendants -- according to the Narnia wiki, Frank V's youngest son Col led human settlers into Archenland, and the Calormene were exiled criminals from Archenland. Thus, a cabbie and 2000+ years populated a whole magical world, with some new blood when pirates (and their captured wives) fell through the worlds and ended up becoming the Telmarines...

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* AdamAndEvePlot: Frank and his wife Nellie become the Adam and Eve of Narnia. It's not played entirely straight; their children and descendants marry native magical races, and by the time Jadis returns nobody that qualifies as (or identifies as) human is left in Narnia itself. The humans in Archenland and Calormene Calormen are also their descendants -- according to the Narnia wiki, Frank V's youngest son Col led human settlers into Archenland, and the Calormene Calormenes were exiled criminals from Archenland. Thus, a cabbie and 2000+ years populated a whole magical world, with some new blood when pirates (and their captured wives) fell through the worlds and ended up becoming the Telmarines...



* AllMythsAreTrue: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Digory towards Uncle Andrew. Since the Atlantean box with the magical dust from another world both exist, Digory takes it to mean that all the old fairytales are "more or less true". He uses this fact to warn his uncle that he is exactly like the type of selfish, cruel and foolish old magician who [[LaserGuidedKarma comes to a bad end]] in those kinds of stories. Sure enough, BreakTheHaughty awaits for Uncle Andrew.

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* AllMythsAreTrue: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Digory towards Uncle Andrew. Since the Atlantean box with and the magical dust from another world both exist, Digory takes it to mean that all the old fairytales are "more or less true". He uses this fact to warn his uncle that he is exactly like the type of selfish, cruel and foolish old magician who [[LaserGuidedKarma comes to a bad end]] in those kinds of stories. Sure enough, BreakTheHaughty awaits for Uncle Andrew.
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* SecretUndergroundPassage: A rare above-ground example. The plot begins with the children exploring a tunnel which goes through the attics of several houses, and they enter what they believe is an empty house, but is in fact Uncle Andrew's attic study.

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