On Saturday April 13, I was at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz musical based upon the 1939 movie and I came home and looked up the 1939 movie on TV tropes website and I noticed a lot of complaints about Glinda (being a combination of both the North and the South Good Witches from the book) not telling Dorthy about the Ruby Slippers telporting. The more reasonable (and for me logical explanation) is that Dorthy wouldn’t likely believe her and if she didn’t believe, the shoes maybe wouldn’t be able to work. Or maybe Glinda needed to do a “Hermione” and do research in Glinda’s library (if Glinda has a library) to find out more about the Ruby Slippers. Also it wouldn’t be much of a story if she decided to go home right away if she DID believe if Glinda had told her. Any story with a hero or heroine (if the jounrey takes place away from ‘home’, the protagonist must go on a journey and battle an adversary before being able to get home) They even said so in the movie!
Is Uncle Henry (who last name appears to be Gale) Dorthy blood uncle? Or is there a possibility that after the death of Dorthy’s parents if let say her mom was Emily (Aunt Em’s sister) ‘s sister (or Uncle Henry’s sister)that they changed her name to be like theirs?(Gale). Since which is easily to explain to a young (or little girl) why your name is different then your aunt or uncle or just change the orphan’s name to their own last name IF Dorthy’s mom was Aunt Em’s sister (or Uncle Henry’s sister)