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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (plot summary)

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==Lucy and the Wardrobe==
One day, the four children are exploring the house when they find an empty room. They all move on after a few seconds except for Lucy, who looks inside a wardrobe (actually partly made of wood from a tree grown of an apple brought back from Narnia years before by Professor Kirke who visited the land at its creation as a boy in The Magician's Nephew) and finds a snowy wood. She walks into the wood and reaches a lamp-post. A faun suddenly appears and introduces himself as Mr Tumnus. He has never met a human before and invites Lucy back to his cave for tea. After they have eaten tea, Mr Tumnus tells Lucy that Narnia was once a beautiful place with wonderful weather, but it all changed one day when the land succumbed to endless winter. He then begins to play a tune on his flute and Lucy goes to sleep. She wakes up to find Mr Tumnus in tears. He confesses to being in the pay of the White Witch, who had given him orders that if he ever saw a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve in the forest he was to hand them over to her. Mr Tumnus quickly goes back on his word and says that there is no way he could hand Lucy over to the Witch. He agrees to walk her back to the lamp-post and make sure that she returns home safely.
 
==Edmund and the Wardrobe==
Lucy suddenly appears and tells Edmund that she has been to see Mr Tumnus, and that the White Witch has not done anything to him for protecting her. Edmund realises from Lucy's description that the White Witch is no other than the Queen of Narnia that he has just made friends with. But he is still determined to taste that Turkish Delight again more than anything else.
 
==Back on This Side of the Door==
After that, Edmund stops teasing Lucy about the country in the wardrobe and all four children manage to enjoy themselves. For a while it looks as though the whole business with the wardrobe had come to an end. But that was not to be.
 
==Back in Narnia==
The children soon see a beaver and he calls for them to come closer. They soon realise that the beaver is in the good and he urges them to speak as quietly as possible. He gives Lucy a handkerchief (the one she gave to Mr Tumnus when he was crying), and tells her that Mr Tumnus gave him the handkerchief just before his arrest. They then go back to Mr Beaver's house on the top of the river dam, where Mrs Beaver is cooking their tea.
 
==Mr and Mrs Beaver==
Mr Beaver then orders everyone to start packing their bags because there isn't a moment to lose.
 
==The White Witch's House==
When the sledge is ready, Edmund joins the Witch and her dwarf on the long journey to the Stone Table. It lasts for hours and hours, all through the night.
 
==The Spell Begins to Break==
Mr Beaver leads his wife and the three children to a concealed large hole in the ground, which is a hiding place for beavers in bad times. They have something to eat and drink, and everyone is soon asleep.
 
==The Next Morning==
When they finally stop, the snow has virtually melted. The dwarf tells the Witch that her winter has been destroyed by Aslan. She then threatens to kill whichever person mentions the name Aslan again, so Edmund and the dwarf keep quiet.
 
==The Stone Table==
Suddenly, Aslan's creatures appear and rescue Edmund. He is taken back to the Stone Table and reconciled with his brother and sisters. Soon afterwards, the Witch's dwarf appears and asks Aslan's permission for the Witch to have safe conduct to talk to Aslan. Aslan agrees and a few minutes later the White Witch arrives, demanding the return of Edmund - claiming that he is a traitor and that the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time means that all traitors are her property. Aslan then tells everyone that he will talk to the Witch alone. Minutes later he returns and announces that he has resettled the claim on Edmund's blood.
 
==Deep Magic From the Dawn of Time==
That night, Susan and Lucy notice that Aslan is missing from the encampment and go out to look for him. They find him nearby and walk with him until they reach the Stone Table. He orders them to hide nearby because it was not safe, and they soon see why. The White Witch and her people are standing around the Stone Table, and Aslan approaches them. He does not fight back as they tie him to the Stone Table. The Witch finally kills Aslan after saying that she will go back on their deal and kill Edmund as well. Then the Witch and her army leave the Stone Table, convinced that they have achieved victory.
 
==Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time==
Susan and Lucy remain at the Stone Table all night and during that time they notice hundreds of mice biting away at the cords which hold Aslan's dead body to the table. After dawn has broken, they hear a loud rumbling noise from by the table. They notice that the table has cracked in half and Aslan has gone. Lucy reckons that it is magic. A voice from behind her says 'Yes, more magic!'. It is Aslan, alive again. Before the dawn of time, another spell was cast - older than the one cited by the White Witch - which guaranteed that if a traitor was wrongly sacrificed, he would come back to life.
 
==The Great Battle==
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are later crowned kings and queens of Narnia at Cair Paravel and rule for many happy years.
 
==The Hunting of the White Stag==
The four children then tell the professor all about their adventures in Narnia. He tells them that they will not be able to get into Narnia through the wardrobe again, and this was proved correct. But it was only the beginning of the adventures in Narnia.
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