At last she drew near. She stood by Aslan’s head. Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad. Then, just before she gave the blow, she stooped down and said in a quivering voice,
“And now, who has won? Fool, did you think that by all this you would save the human traitor? Now I will kill you instead of him as our pact was and so the Deep Magic will be appeased. But when you are dead what will prevent me from killing him as well? And who will take him out of my hand then? Understand that you have given me Narnia forever, you have lost your own life and you have not saved his. In that knowledge, despair and die.”
The children did not see the actual moment of the killing. They couldn’t bear to look and had covered their eyes.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, “The Triumph of the Witch”
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Thanks for the quote. Despite all the people who think Lewis rather shallow & obvious, he still has some powerful moments. It just goes to show that although something may be telegraphed, it still can be effective & moving.
You could also use Voldemort’s proclamation in front of Hogwarts with the “dead” Harry in Hagrid’s arms. Like The Mouth of Sauron about to have his snout struck by a stinging rod.
Matthew, yeah, I was going to include passages from HP, Narnia, and LotR, but I didn’t have time to get them all written out.
Thanks, Travis (and Matthew). That is such a reminder that we can find Christ’s story in many places. As I sat in church on Friday evening at the Good Friday service, after the last candle was extinguished, thinking about the passages from the Bible that tell the story, I also thought of all the times I’ve read the story, retold by authors who did so intentionally, and some, not intentionally.
Pat