I am hoping that I will have these FEELINGS also about Dawn Treader! On the one hand, it's possibly my favorite of the books, it sounds like they messed about with it a lot, and it can't live up to what's in my head; but on the other, I've now psyched myself up for disappointment, so I may be pleasantly surprised! WE SHALL SEE.

Yes, Probably, But Do We Want To Risk Missing Our Chance To Go There?

I TOTALLY DID THIS TOO. /o\ I relate so hard to everything you say there, actually, except that I don't think my parents ever knew that I was constantly looking for Narnia and believed in Aslan really hard. I think I knew they would have laughed at me or told me it wasn't real, but I knew better, so there.

Re: realizing it's All an Allegory For the Bible, I actually had a blast playing Spot the Allegory in ... hm, seventh or eighth grade, after I'd been going to Catholic school for a year and knew any Bible stories at all. (Jewish dad, new age-y mum, maybe they once read me a children's bible as part of my education in the Western canon but I think they basically just did Old Testament stuff anyway.) But I just basically laughed at Lewis, because I'd already beaten him at his own game! I believed in Aslan but that didn't mean I had to care one way or another about Jesus, so there. XD