Chesterton on Fairytales and the Effect on the Moon Witch

I watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mv73Tb_djw&t=89s - an essay on G.K. Chesterton's views on fairytales. The essay says that fairy tales teach us 3 things:

1.) The world is a story

2.) Evil is real

3.) Evil can be defeated, but at a cost

In Chesterton's words: “Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."

What does this have to do with me and the Moon Witch? One of the stories in The Pilgrimage does indeed have a dragon in it, riffing on the legend of Fafnir. Nellie (the Moon Witch) is trying to cure the dragon of its curse. In the original outline, a companion adventurer is bored with how long it's taking and leaves on his merry way. But what if he actually argues with Nellie that he needs to kill the dragon. It's what adventurers do! Seems like that would add a layer or two of depth to their relationship, not to mention the relationship with the dragon. After all, Fafnir was evil. That's why he got turned into a dragon.

This new aspect to the story is really making me look forward to writing the full draft of it! And there are other stories in The Pilgrimage of the Moon Witch that I would like to rewrite with this in mind too!