And I don't think Peter would have been so reluctant to take on Narnia's battle - here's a fifteen year old boy in wartime Britain who's probably counting the hours until he's seventeen and can enlist.
Mrs VS
Interesting idea -- in talking to his Granddad and Great-Uncles about World War II, my 19 year old marveled, "Can you imagine lying about your age to get INTO a war?" and I merely commented, "Makes you wonder what happened to your generation, doesn't it?" The startled look that came before the eye-rolling was instructive.
If they made Peter a modern wabbler, they made a mistake. And I have never believed that wars are uglier when "girls" (which is what the old patriarchal view of us really means) fight. War is an ugly business when anybody fights, but so what? My own view on the matter is encapsulated in the action of Harry Potter's mother -- and the idea that the selfless sacrifice of a mother for her child -- throwing herself between him and certain death for both of them -- provides that child with a protection in the pure distilled transforming power of selfless love. Nothing ugly about that at all.