Lucy and Jill--first meeting

MrBob

MrBob

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I was imagining what that first meeting was like between these two girls. The first question would be when they would have met. I think probably the next summer. I could see, much to their parents' amazement, Edmund and Lucy asking if they could visit Eustace. Eustace also makes plans for Jill to visit during that time, too.

Of course, Jill comes to visit wearing her dress from Harfang. They immediately embrace as if they knew each other for years, both seeing in the other the presence of Aslan.

What do you think about their first meeting?
 
yeah, i think that's likely. They proably did like each other right away. Though this would almost seem a bit strnage, cause to me, Jill seems to me to be more on the practical side, and lucy on the dreamy side, and it seems as though the practical one would scorn the other, but no, Lucy and jill were proably friends right off.
 
The only thing, that I doubt happened in your little story is, I do not think Jill would wear the Harfang Dress. The books says that she wore it to fancy Dress parties, not for everyday.

I picture it more like both Eustace and Jill going to the Pevensies' house, because the adult Pevensies seem like they would be more receptive to having all sorts of kids at their house than Harold and Alberta. At any rate I think that Peter would want to be part of it, and maybe Susan would have been interested in Narnia still. The Professor and "Aunt Polly" would want to be part of it too.
 
"Jill seems to me to be more on the practical side, and lucy on the dreamy side"

Catherine, I never saw Lucy as the dreamy kind, at lesat not more than normal. However, I do understand where you would see Jill as the more practical.

"The only thing, that I doubt happened in your little story is, I do not think Jill would wear the Harfang Dress. The books says that she wore it to fancy Dress parties, not for everyday."

Lava, this would not be an everyday event. This would be a special meeting of the Friends of Narnia. And plus, it would serve as an especially intersting ice breaker:

"I love your dress, where did you get it?"
"It does look nice. I got it in Ettinsmoor at the House of Harfang."

I chose just the younger two Pevensies as they had such an adventure with Eustace that they would be the most interested in seeing their now-favorite cousin again. Peter may also want to go if his studies are done. Susan I don't know. I wonder when she really started to lose her beliefs in Narnia?

MrBob
 
No I really do not think she would have worn it, especially on the first meeting. If she were going to the Pevensies' house (by train as likely as not), it would cause to much of a stir. If she were already at Eustace's house and Lucy arrived, she would have known that it would make Lucy feel bad because Lucy would be in her travelling clothes and she would be in a dress fancy enought to wear to a ball or an evening party. No, Jill was more sensible and sensitive than that.

We must assume that she would wait to pull out the dress.
 
If Susan had already turned her back on Narnia, I am sure Lucy would have been so glad for the company of another girl who knew about Narnia. There were so few people they could confide in, and without Jill it would have been all boys.

But I like to think Susan did not lose her love for Narnia until she was an adult or very nearly, so perhaps she was there when the Pevensies met Jill for the first time. I hope so.
 
Since they called Polly "Aunt Polly" and seemed to know her well, it sounds as if they'd have gotten to know one another well. They were like a close family, even for those who weren't physically related. I'd imagine the character of Lucy would be glad to have Jill around to talk to about Narnia. Even if she still had Susan around it's nice to have another perspective from a lady.

As for the dress, Jill wore it to a Christmas party once that we know of...but I'd like to think in my mind that Jill wouldn't wear it to meet the Pevensies, but rather take it with her and give it to Lucy as a gift. Jill was in Narnia on a short mission. Lucy lived there a lifetime as a queen. It would be a very fitting and sweet gesture. That's what I'd hope for anyway. If nothing else to at least give Lucy the cape to have something from Narnia to wrap up in.
 
I think lu and jill would have got along good I could see them enjyoing each others company i am sure jill would have liked to have lucy to talk too. Lucy could tell Jill about of alot of narnia things cause lucy lived there a lifetime
 
If Lucy could have met Jill sooner, Lucy would have had the same effect on Jill as Eustace did, as concerns introducing her to Aslan. Lucy might have gotten a hearing from Jill more quickly than Eustace could, because Jill would not have had to get past any prior negative experience with Lucy. On the other hand, Eustace's transformation from obnoxious twerp to noble knight was a powerful argument for the existence of God/Aslan.
 
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