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I agree with you about the dragged out parts. And I wondered why Will's mother was there to begin with. She was his only tie to his world and if I were him, I would have grabbed her and taken her to live with Lyra. But then, I've never liked the bit about how denying yourself what you really want is desirable in and of itself. I did like Lyra's return to university life.
I thought that Lyra and Will *did* fall, thus making the universe interesting once more (who likes a perfect world?) and attracting more dust. Their punishment was to be kicked out of the perfect world, forbidden easy access to former privledges. Sort of another parallel with Adam and Eve who presumably spent the rest of their lives making the world a better place for agriculture and telling their daughters-in-law that when *they* were young, entire meals fell from the trees ready to eat? Adam and Eve were sent off with the unlikely possiblity that with word they could reproduce eden's gardens and the witches hinted to Lyra and Will that if they relearned grace they could find a way to visit.
or something like that.
The Madhatter
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