![]() ![]() It is magic as extended metaphor: poignant, beautiful and clear. ![]() This is true magic: turning Wart into a fish, where he learns about the wrong sort of power from a pike sending him amongst the horrible, bellicose ants or the calm, simple geese or even simply to quest in the ancient greenwood with Robin and Marian. The distinction is that what he experiences is, unlike Potter, geared to teaching him how to behave in the real world. Long before Harry Potter, here was a boy who finds respite in magic. ![]() He is largely pushed about by those in charge of him, whether it's the Sergeant-at-Arms, his nurse, or his kindly foster-father Sir Ector. We meet Wart – called so by his foster-brother Kay "because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name" – when he is in a position of weakness. ![]()
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