A brown glove with one raised finger casts an exclamation-mark-shaped shadow on pale ground.

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Peter

I don't believe in fairies. Oops, a fairy died. I don't believe in fairies. Oops, another fairy died.

— Hook • 1991

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Peter twice declares disbelief in fairies and then announces a fairy’s death. The repeated declaration-and-consequence pattern is part of the fictional dialogue; it does not establish real creatures or give an actual account of deaths.

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