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Digory Kirke is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis' fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He...

Digory Kirke is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis' fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He is in three of the seven books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle, and is mentioned in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he is played as an adult by Jim Broadbent. In The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of Narnia, Digory is a young boy. He lives in London with his Uncle Andrew, due to his father being away in India. Andrew has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through the Wood between the Worlds. Uncle Andrew first tricks Digory's friend Polly Plummer into trying the ring; when she disappears, he then blackmails his nephew into following her with another ring in order to bring her back. Digory has a sometimes misguided sense of adventure that causes him to go into another world before trying to get home and to ring a bell just to see what happens thus breaking the enchantment that held Jadis, the future White Witch, in an enchanted sleep in her dead world Charn,