@jasmine_tarkheena They did the school mistress, but they didn't give her any characteristics of Miss Prizzle. 

Posted by: @tarva-lord-of-victory

I always did think Dr. Cornelius was an underrated character and I wished we had seen more of him. Is he really not mentioned in The Last Battle? That's shocking, I never noticed that. 

I never noticed it either until fairly recently when it was pointed out in another discussion here. As others have said, there's no way Doctor Cornelius wouldn't have gone to Aslan's country after his death, so I guess not naming him was just an oversight on Lewis's part. He must be included in the "hundred other heroes of the Great War of Deliverance" — though what's surprising is that Glenstorm the Centaur is named, and yet he's a much less important character than Doctor Cornelius is in the story of Prince Caspian (and in Caspian's life as a whole).

I'm certain, though, that if anyone had written to Lewis to ask him "Why wasn't Doctor Cornelius there in the new Narnia?", Lewis would have assured them at once that he was, along with everyone else who truly loved Aslan, and he (Lewis) just forgot to name him. Lewis regularly answered questions like that from his readers — there's a wonderful published collection of the best of his letters to young fans (titled C.S. Lewis: Letters to Children), which is well worth reading. I don't recall that it includes any who asked about Doctor Cornelius's apparent absence at the end of the series, but it does give a good idea of the sorts of questions and concerns that early readers of the Chronicles had, and of how kind Lewis always was in responding to them.

That reminds me of another glaring oversight in the Chronicles — and I don't know the source of this comment on it from Lewis, but I know it's quoted in The Land of Narnia by Brian Sibley, which is the first Narnia commentary (specially for young readers) that I ever owned. My copy is back in Australia, so I'll have to paraphrase, but it seems Lewis had a lot of fans wanting to know what happened to the little party of Christmas revellers who were turned to stone by the White Witch in LWW. Lewis stated somewhere that he assumed everyone would know that Aslan would bring them back to life too, but (he admitted) "I see now I should have said so." (I know as a first-time reader I guessed Aslan must have done that — because, well, he would, wouldn't he? — but yes, it would have been nicer to have it stated explicitly in the text.)

There's another thing that could be "expanded on" in a new film version of LWW — I don't think we need names and backgrounds for all the creatures at that feast, but if the scene where they're turned to stone is included in the next adaptation, we definitely should get to see them brought to life again. My personal "headcanon" is that during the journey of all the freed ex-statues from the Witch's house, as they race to join the Battle of Beruna, they pass by the small group of statues still at their table, and Aslan stops for a moment to breathe on them and they joyously join his army. (They would be somewhere along the route from the Witch's house to the Stone Table, after all, since that's the way the Witch was taking Edmund when she found them in the first place.) No need for any dialogue or great elaboration in this imagined scene where they're freed — just show it happening and make clear how delighted they are to see Aslan and follow him to victory.

@courtenay

Oh yeah, we should, since we don't really know what happened to them after they were turned into stone. Non of the screen adaptations of LWW I've seen had something like that.

I would possibly picture that you know how in every screen adaptation of LWW they show Edmund breaking the White Witch's wand and getting wounded in the process. Well, what if we actually see Edmund breaking the White Witch's wand (it could bring out his character arc in a way) but instead of showing him getting wounded, they could cut to Aslan, the girls and the freed Narnians from the White Witch's castle, as they're heading towards Beruna, they pass by the small gathering of the forest animals that were celebrating Christmas, and Aslan breathes them back to life. Then they head on towards Beruna.