Charn after she causes havoc in London for an afternoon, but instead brings her (and Uncle Andrew, and a cabbie and his horse, all accidentally) into a whole new world. This world is dark and formless before Aslan starts creating it. This world will later be called Narnia. After Jadis flees at the sight of Aslan when unable to harm him with a lamp post, Digory is allowed to redeem himself for introducing evil in Narnia by going to a mysterious locked garden to retrieve an apple that grants the desire of the one who eats it, but despair to those who steal it. This apple also has the ability to be planted, growing a tree that will lock Jadis out of Narnia for centuries. After Digory's long journey by pegasus, he arrives with Polly to find that Jadis has already arrived. Jadis eats an apple to become immortal, and tempts Digory to eat one himself and take another to save his ill mother. Digory overcomes his moral conflict and takes the apple to Aslan, instructed by the lion to plant it by the river so it would become a tree whose magic will keep Jadis, who will later be known as the White Witch, at bay for many centuries. With Aslan's permission and blessing, Digory is allowed to take an apple from this tree back to his world to cure his mother. With Polly's help, Digory then buries all the magic rings and the apple core behind the Ketterlys' house. Over time, a seed from the apple core grows into a new tree with special but non-magical fruit. Soon afterwards, Digory's father returns from home in India, able to retire from the army having inherited a fortune and a large house in the country from a recently deceased uncle. Digory, his parents, and Uncle Andrew go and live there. He and Polly remain lifelong friends. In later years, the mature tree is blown down by a storm and Digory uses the wood to build the wardrobe that becomes the portal to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 40 years later, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie stay with the now 52-year-old Professor Kirke at his house in the country during the Blitz of London. He lives at the great house with