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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The Professor Quotes

"If there really is a door in this house that leads to some other world […] I should not be at all surprised to find that that other world had a separate time of its own; so that however long you stayed there it would never take up any of our time. On the other hand, I don't think many girls of her age would invent that idea for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time before coming out and telling her story."

"But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds – all over the place, just round the corner – like that?"

"Nothing is more probable," said the Professor. (5.38-40)

The Professor surprises Peter and Susan by using logic to argue for the possibility that supernatural occurrences might take place – that parallel worlds could really exist, and that Lucy might have been to one.