But his friend Polly Plummer showed up to console him for the harsh treatment, and said: "You know what, Digory? I've been thinking. Mister Lewis wrote our adventures _before_ he discovered romantic love for himself. Back then, for whatever reason, he was so _far_ removed from commonplace human sentiments in this regard, that he made it seem in his stories as if _anyone_ feeling romantic desires were an _exception_ to the rule."
"You know, you're right!" replied the Professor. "There was actually NO reason on God's earth why you and I _shouldn't_ have been able to proceed from friendship to marital love. We were cheated!"
Mister Lewis dropped down from Heaven to confess, "I'm terribly sorry, Digory and Polly. You're right: I _didn't_ have any need to have left you both celibate for life. No necessary spiritual purpose was served by it; I was only reflecting my own distaste -- at _that_ time -- for romantic love. But the good news is that, since you two are fictional characters, it IS possible to fix this."
Accordingly, Mister Lewis wrote a "private special edition" of "The Magician's Nephew," in which Digory and Polly got married the very minute they were old enough, and enjoyed a _very_ long and _entirely_ satisfying married life.... without spoiling or cancelling out _anything_ about their friendship.