Why Lucy?

Benisse said:
If Susan had been first, she might have been more wary about talking to strangers (and unfamiliar fauns).

If Peter had been first, he might have been easier for Tumnus to betray.

And if Edmund had been first chances are the four would have ended up betrayed into the hands of the White Witch instead of having a set of allies built up to get them to Aslan in time.

I'm so glad Lucy was first!
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Very thoughtful response! Well said, Linda!
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ShastaoftheNineRealms said:
I just don't think anyone else would have chosen to hide in the wardrobe. I mean that wardrobe was the only thing in that room. Dead giveaway.
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I agree with that. I think Lucy was young enough that it was realistic. I know they were playing Hide and Seek throughout most of the mansion. The interesting thing about picking that room is that it might have been a room that others would have avoided for a lack of hiding places, but she chose it anyway.
 
I was in particular thinking about how I might have thought about that room as a kid. Never thought of it as a reverse psychology gambit. Great observation of what I was thinking! I am impressed!
 
In the movie, she tried to hide in the curtains, but Edmund beat her to it. She then saw a large something covered by a sheet, which she (dramatically) removed and decided it was the perfect hiding place. In truth, there were so many rooms that just finding her merely by looking in each one would be hard. Of course, seeing a crumpled-up sheet sitting next to a large wardrobe might also be a dead giveaway that Lucy was in there.

MrBob
 
True looking in each one would have been arduous, but it's not as though Lucy really went that far from the point at which they started. Even when she ran out of the room she almost ran directly in to the others, so all they had to do was look in all of the rooms in the immediate area. Which they apparently did not do. This conversation really has me thinking about the way they played hide and seek. I mean we see that Peter found Susan and Edmund and then when Lucy runs out what were they doing? Just standing in the hallway?
 
Lucy ran out of the room and came across Edmund, who was still hiding. Then Peter came in the room to see both of them out in the open. Susan then came into the room asking if she had won, implying Peter hadn't found her yet.

Of course, the book had the siblings looking around the house and opened this door to find this room with only a wardrobe in it. Lucy then lingered to try to open the wardrobe door, not sure if it would even open (thinking there may have been a lock on it). After finding the fur coats, she walked in, as she enjoyed the feel of the fur, something that only someone younger would do.

However, I do wonder about the number of coats she found in the wardrobe. They continued past where the back of the wardrobe should have been. Where did all of those other coats come from?

MrBob
 
Actually that raises a different question. It appears as though Peter had only just started looking. Lucy claims to have been gone for hours. How much do we know about the exchange rate because this scene has it appear that a few hours in Narnia translates to but one or two minutes in the real world. So the question of how long it would have taken to search every room is moot. Anybody who went in to that wardrobe would have come barreling out of it believing themselves to have been gone for hours. But then, how long was she gone from Edmund's perspective because if it was truly only mere moments since he pushed her out of the way and took the curtain hiding spot, wouldn't it have struck him more strange that she came running back almost immediately?
 
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