Uncle Andrew, however, was afraid of Aslan's power, and managed to convince himself that Aslan was just an ordinary lion. It is then that they saw the Great Lion Aslan himself creating Narnia. Instead of Jadis' homeworld, they all went to a seemingly void world. Polly, Uncle Andrew, the stolen cab-horse named Strawberry and Frank, its owner were all dragged into the other world as well. When Jadis was fighting with the police, Digory manages to drag Jadis back into the other world. Attempting to entertain her, Jadis causes chaos in London stealing jewels and a cab horse. Andrew complies, under the delusion that she will fall in love with him. She decides to make Andrew her slave and orders him to help her conquer Earth.

Jadis is angered to find the magician who sent Diggory is only a common man instead of a great ruler. When he returned from the other world, he unwittingly brought Queen Jadis with him back to Earth. He then made a compromise with his nephew: Leave his friend to an unknown fate in the other world, or go to the other world to get her back. After locking them in his study, he manipulated Polly into taking a yellow ring (which would take her into another world), but not a green one (which would take her back to Earth). He found that help in the form of his nephew Digory Kirke and his friend Polly Plummer. After this experiment, he sought human subjects for his experiments. In the summer of 1900, Andrew performed his first successful experiment with the dust, from the dust, he created several rings and they were used to send guinea pigs into other worlds. He eventually discovered that the box came from Atlantis, and that there was dust that came from another world inside of it. Knowing that the box came by the means of magical origin, he desired to know how to use the contents in the box. Andrew didn't keep his promised, and he set out on a long career in magic. She gave him a magical box and made him promise to burn it in a ceremony. On her deathbed, Andrew was called to visit his godmother before she expired. In fact, she claimed that she was a fairy and that she knew the existence of other worlds. Lefay whom he was not allowed to see because she was viewed as insane by the other family members. Having squandered his family fortune on extravagances, he was forced to move in with his sister Letty. Andrew ends up also being one of the first humans to ever set foot into Narnia, witnessing how Narnia was created by Aslan.Īndrew was born to the Ketterley family in 1840.

He is the uncle of Digory Kirke as well as a self-proclaimed magician. Uncle Andrew Ketterley is the secondary antagonist of the 1955 novel The Magician's Nephew, the sixth installment of The Chronicles of Narnia book series.

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