What do you think happened to characters from your childhood?

[Squigean]

(Bear with me, I'm off ill and got too much time to think.)

I was just thinking about the Secret Garden - it's been made into another film; out this year.

It's set in 1910 (or 11) Dickon was 12 I think (?). So will be 16 in 1914. Good chance he's off to the trenches at some point, highly possible he dies there.

Colin was 10 so will miss out on being having to go and probably continued being obnoxious and privileged. (Might be hard to tell, but I didn't like Colin.) He would probably miss being conscripted - as he would be 39 when WW2 started and probably married. (Plus I can't recall when the upper-aged men got conscripted, it wasn't immediately and i think Colin would probably have just missed out age-wise).

Mary I think would be married off and that would be that for her. If she's lucky she might have a passionate affair with the gardener.(Probably not Ben Weatherstaff; thinking more along the lines of Oliver Mellors.)

Martha (my favourite character) I think would have married, had many children and lived near her mother.

I'm going to figure out Enid Blyton characters now. (Despite a lot of them being knob heads.)

Funny thing is, I read the books as a child and watched the television series and had no idea about the ending! Nor did my parents!

Really? It's right at the end of The Last Battle, pretty clearly if memory serves. Maybe you were speed-reading and missed it. That happened to me when Finnick died in Mockingjay- it mentioned later on that he'd died and I was all, 'Hang on- when did that happen??'

@PlomBear they haven't televised "The Last Battle", only "TLTWandTW", "Prince Caspian", "Voyage of the Dawntreader" and "The Silver Chair".

They've never televised "The Magician's Nephew" (no 1), "The Horse and His Boy" (no 3) and "The Last Battle" (no 7).

If I remember rightly, Peter, Edmund and Lucy go to Narnia Heaven. But Susan (and their parents) go to Earth Heaven. She waves at them and it leaves it open to your imagination as to whether they can visit each other.

How is it that I had no recollection of that @witchend

I just got my copy of The Last Battle off the bookshelf to check. Funny how that didn't stick, but other messages did.

#glitchinthematrix
#mandelaeffect

@TeetotalKoala

It's strange how memories go.
I had a book I asked on here to find. I remembered the basic story-my year 6 teacher had been reading it. And I remembered one very specific scene from it word for word.
People on here came up with 2 possible books, so I bought them both.
The basic story was from one book (the one the teacher read) and the scene was from the other book-I'd obviously picked it up and read it myself at some point as the teacher definitely didn't read two.
I had no recollection of reading the book (other than this scene) and could even hear the words from the scene being read out in my teacher's voice.

I don't recall that either!! I do recall bring less and less interested in the books as I worked through them.

I also, vaguely, recall something about a ship moving towards brightness.

I wonder what happened to Billie Bradley.

My guess is she married some wealthy guy from Pittsburgh after meeting him in the fancy department shop where she started working as a sales advisor after boarding school and then became a housewife in an affluent suburb.