Here's another bit of completely useless information:
My family and I just got back from Priest Lake with all the aunts and uncles and cousins and Grandma, which was fantastic fun, by the way, and in the car on the way back, we listened to an audiobook of The Horse and His Boy by Mr. C.S. Lewis.
If you're not familiar with The Horse and His Boy, then let me tell you there's a bit at the end in which the villain gets turned into a donkey. I was trying to picture that happening, and in my brain it ended up looking like the kids turning into donkeys near the end of Pinocchio.
In The Horse and His Boy, the villain, whose name is Rabbidash if I'm spelling that right, gets turned into a donkey by Aslan in order to make him look ridiculous and humilify him. But while watching Pinocchio, the average Pinocchio Watcher might ask, why turn the boys into donkeys? Why not dragons or giant squids so that the villains can take over the world instead of pulling carriages?
Here's why:
1. In The Horse and His Boy, Aslan turns Rabbidash into a donkey in order to humble him and make him look like an idiot, because Rabbidash is a scum-sucking moron. BUT, Aslan tells Rabbidash how to undo the enchantment, which Rabbidash does, so then he can go back to his kingdom and be the Tisroc (may he live forever).
2. This isn't in the book, but Rabbidash has a son who is very angry at Aslan making his father and Tisroc (may he live forever) the laughing stock of Calormene and Narnia and Archenland.
3. So, Rabbidash's son (I don't know his name, so I'll call him Phreddrique) invents The Craft of Turning People Into Donkeys so that he can turn as many people into donkeys as he wants for revenge, and hopefully make everybody forget about his father's brief spell as a donkey pun intended I win. This is evil because he's doing it out of spite and for his own satisfaction, whereas Aslan did it only once, and for Rabbidash's own good.
4. Phreddrique passes on the knowledge of How To Turn People Into Donkeys to his son, who passes it to his son, etc, but nobody uses it because it hasn't been perfected yet.
5. UNTIL we come to The Villain From Pinocchio who is a descendant of Rabbidash and Phreddrique (I'll call him Phreddrique IV because I don't know his name either). Phreddrique IV perfects the Craft of Turning People Into Donkeys, but he doesn't quite know if it works yet, so he tests it out on lots of little boys. First, he tempts them to be bad by bringing them to Pleasure Island, so it's his way of trying to shove it in Aslan's face and saying "Har, Aslan, look I can make bad people into donkeys too."
6. Presumably, his plot was dissolved after Pinocchio escaped and told everybody about it, but that's not in either of the stories.
So, in a nutshell, the Villain from Pinocchio is Rabbidash's descendant trying to get revenge on Aslan, and the whole Pinocchio story takes place in Narnia, which is why Jiminy Cricket can talk. I know Figaro and Chleo can't talk, but there are animals who can't talk in Narnia, so that's OK.
Good night!
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