Christopher wrote:
Even if unintended, or just quoting verbatim lines from the book, the level of God in this one was quite a fair bit higher:
Maybe before he will show himself to us we have to prove ourselves to him or something.
The books were originally written as Christian literature. (I read one theory that they were an attempt to deliver the message of God to the heathens by coating it in magic.)
As far as deviations go, Peter and Susan weren't originally in anything after The Horse and His Boy (which is the best of the books in my opinion), until The Last Battle.