his housekeeper, Mrs. Macready. The four children discover Narnia via a wardrobe, revealed at the end of The Magician's Nephew to have been made from the wood of the tree which grew from the apple Digory had fed to his sick mother (by this stage deceased). After Lucy visits Narnia for the first time and her siblings do not believe her story, Kirke speaks to them wisely and shows them that she is logically likely to be telling the truth. In particular, he points out that the idea of an alternate reality having a course of time completely separate to ours is unlikely to have been made up by a child Lucy's age. At the end of the story, he reassures the children that they will return to Narnia one day. The text does not reveal his first name or surname, and instead refers to him simply as the Professor. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it is mentioned in passing that Professor Kirke has lost his fortune and has had to downsize to a cottage with only one spare bedroom. (This explains why Edmund and Lucy, at the beginning of the book, are forced to stay with their cousin Eustace Scrubb when their parents and Susan go abroad, with only Peter being able to stay with the professor so as to be tutored for his upcoming university examinations.) The Last Battle In The Last Battle, Digory dies in a train accident and is pulled into Narnia, with the other listed major characters. He and Polly (age 60 and 61), both become young again, and are dressed as royalty (and referred to as Lord Digory and Lady Polly). They are thus allowed to take up eternal lives in New Narnia. The Last Battle also notes that, prior to the events of the book, Digory, Polly, the Pevensie siblings (with the exception of Susan, who has come to believe that Narnia was a youthful fantasy, and thus was not on the train), Eustace, and Jill Pole had been gathering on occasion as "friends of Narnia", to reminisce about their various adventures. Portrayals Michael Aldridge played Digory in the 1988 BBC miniseries adaptation. Jim Broadbent played the character in the 2005 film. References The Chronicles of Narnia characters Fictional schoolteachers Fictional professors Child characters in literature Fictional people from London Fictional gentry Literary characters introduced