Potterverse!Sherlock fanart + Squeeing over Dr. Who
(sorry, the link through isn't working for some reason....)
My rationale for the sorting is at my deviantart post
I do enjoy the thought of Sherlock in a magical world. I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's because HP and SH are my two oldest and most beloved fandoms. Maybe it's because Harry Potter could use a dose of Intelligent & Sensible Adults (god, what I wouldn't give to see Mycroft stepping in after the debacle that is Fudge/Umbridge). Maybe it's because Sherlock would make a seriously kickass wizard, and just imagining all the hijinks Moriarty would get up to in the vacuum left by Voldemort makes me feel giddy (ok, not in the sadistic sense...just...y'know, interesting. You have to admit, Voldemort did not make a terribly creative villain). Mostly, I just think it'd be nice for Sherlock to be in such an interesting world. Wouldn't it be twice as difficult to get bored if you can play in two sandboxes instead of one?
In my head: Sherlock is just a little bummed out by the current state of the magical world. He probably is one of the folks that Voldemort would have wanted to kill off eventually (but couldn't get his hands on in time) because he advocates an "update" on the Wizarding World. He likes muggle tech and he likes how interesting magic can be, but he thinks they'd be exponentially cooler if combined...not physically- as we well know, muggle tech fails on Hogwarts grounds where- but conceptually and in application. Hm. How did he avoid getting killed by Voldemort? By "hiding" in muggle London as soon as graduation's over? But wouldn't he have been too dangerous to leave alone during school, given his skills/intelligence? Hm. I'd probably have to resolves this in a fic (that will never be written).
He spent his years at Hogwarts (presumably sometime during Marauder era) as a loner in Slytherin, shunned for his heritage (muggle-born, like his brother) and his sympathies. He probably invented spells in his free-time, specializing in magical theory or something. He'd probably be frustrated by some of the illogical aspects of magic (at least, in the way Rowling used it in her world), but would make the best of it and write a couple papers on the parts that -are- logical by graduation. He definitely studied chemistry and physics on the side. He also probably took arithmancy and ancient runes as his electives, and then got an apprenticeship somewhere to invent spells and charm objects...then went to go live in Muggle London where he can apply all this as a fledgling consultant detective. During the war, he probably got recruited for tracking down (unofficially, of course) dark wizards, via Mycroft in the ministry. Maybe he even did a quick stint in the Unspeakable department.
(God, can't you just envision Mycroft as a wizarding-muggle ministry go-between??)
You know, even though this crossover is super exciting, I think I would prefer non-Hogwarts fics. It's just...there's something that disagrees with me when I think about John and Sherlock meeting as wee pre-teens, y'know? Like, Sherlock's craziness would've been off the charts, and John would be (let's be honest here) a lot less interesting. I don't think he would've caught Sherlock's immature eyes. Better have him be a mediwizard of some sort, who (after the DEs kill his wife, Mary, during the first war) turns renegade, or something. Which is why he's not in the Order, which, in my head, is more about defense than offense. And he doesn't get caught by officials, then goes off to live in the muggle world when Voldemort falls the first time. Gets medical training, goes into RAMC, and still gets deployed to Afghanistan.
What would be interesting to me is a fic about the two meeting sometime soon after Voldemort's second rise, doing work together behind the scenes (away from the politics of the ministry). I think I'd like to see them meet in Muggle London, and have it be this thing where Sherlock (having deduced quite a few important things about John) plays around and pretends not to know about the magical world. lol. Then he'd be all j/k, let's share quarters since we're both wizards and don't have to keep secrets. And then a secondary arc dealing with Moriarty. Maybe he steps into the Ministry, then controls all of the dark wizarding activity in absence of a prominent dark leader like Voldemort. I mean, it's easy enough to imagine that there were intelligent dark wizards who figured out how loopy Voldemort was and decided to lay low, right?
Mmmm. My apologies for the length...this is getting way to unwieldy. XD Promise I'll do some more sketches for this crossover soon...
AHHHH. TARDIS. Oh, Gaiman, you puzzle me sometimes, and the writing for this wasn't too tight...but TARDIS. <3
"Do you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?" TARDIS asks Eleven while constructing a temporary casing. The Doctor tries to interject, saying that he's the one who chose her, but she goes on: "I wanted to see the universe. I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough," implying that she chose to leave her doors unlocked so he'd "borrow her." BRILLIANT.
You know what? I don't care what happens with the Doctor/River plot line. Yes, it's sad and inherently tragic, convolute, intriguing, and River's just plain awesome. But my Doctor Who OTP is, henceforth, Doctor/TARDIS. <3 They've been together all these centuries, through thick and thin. And their flirting scenes were just adorable...<3 I'm definitely doing a Doctor/TARDIS fanart.
Other awesome things about this episode:
-TARDIS's control room from Tennant's stint!! YAY!! I love that look on her...
-Re: Corsair...Time Lords can change their gender when they regenerate!! SWEET. I kinda want to see a kickass woman being the Doctor.
-I loved Matt Smith's acting when he's full of hope about the survival of his race, then when it's taken away from him....again. It's like, he didn't have time to be glad/hopeful when Master brings the President and the Council through the vortex (cuz they were trying to end Time), but this time, he would've been among friends....;_;
-Re: TARDIS's name. "700 years, and finally, he asks" XDDD
-Doctor: "She's a woman, and she's a TARDIS."
Amy: "Did you wish REALLY hard?"
Doctor: "S-shut up, not like that!"
XDDD