Mmm. As rthstewart says, there's spying and then there's spying -- but I am of two minds there. Either Edmund would try to stay away from the hinkier areas (and keep everyone else away too), or he might dive in on the theory that he's already been there, his family shouldn't have to go there too, and at least he knows how to get back. I can see him both ways. (Which is useful as a reader -- it keeps me from falling out of stories via broken suspension of disbelief. *grin*)
Edmund did just have pure bad luck meeting Jadis vs. Lucy's encounter with Tumnus, but I always got the sense that he was at least half aware that there was something fishy about her and was shoving that knowledge down because he liked what she was offering and didn't want to examine the fine print too closely. There was an element of choice involved. And he also betrayed Lucy on a smaller, personal level by refusing to corroborate her story when they both got back to England and she wanted him to convince Peter and Susan. There's no excuse for that one.
But yeah, he obviously doesn't angst forever! You can see from HHB, VDT, and TLB that he gets on with his life and seems perfectly well-adjusted, whatever he may or may not be doing vis-a-vis spycraft. :-)
As for betraying Calormen, I think Shasta might worry about that at first, but Calormen was never very good to him and there's no way he could see Rabadash's raid as justified, so I suspect he gets over it pretty quickly. Aravis probably doesn't care at first, but I think it might nag at her off and on over the years -- less the specific action of stymieing Rabadash (which I think she feels perfectly justified about) and more the general action of staying in Archenland and giving allegiance to Aslan as well as the Calormene gods.
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Edmund did just have pure bad luck meeting Jadis vs. Lucy's encounter with Tumnus, but I always got the sense that he was at least half aware that there was something fishy about her and was shoving that knowledge down because he liked what she was offering and didn't want to examine the fine print too closely. There was an element of choice involved. And he also betrayed Lucy on a smaller, personal level by refusing to corroborate her story when they both got back to England and she wanted him to convince Peter and Susan. There's no excuse for that one.
But yeah, he obviously doesn't angst forever! You can see from HHB, VDT, and TLB that he gets on with his life and seems perfectly well-adjusted, whatever he may or may not be doing vis-a-vis spycraft. :-)
As for betraying Calormen, I think Shasta might worry about that at first, but Calormen was never very good to him and there's no way he could see Rabadash's raid as justified, so I suspect he gets over it pretty quickly. Aravis probably doesn't care at first, but I think it might nag at her off and on over the years -- less the specific action of stymieing Rabadash (which I think she feels perfectly justified about) and more the general action of staying in Archenland and giving allegiance to Aslan as well as the Calormene gods.