crazy plot idea
This won't leave me alone. Perhaps I can exorcise the idea here:
Snape and Harry are accidentally sent back in time (18th century) by interacting with (Harry touches, Snape tries to push him out of the way) a telescope formerly belonging to Dumbledore. The whole story would resultantly build up around the two of them forming different (optical) perspectives of one another in typical 18th century fashion -- via hot air balloons, Herschel telescopes (comet sweepers), animal magnetism, electrical parlour games, relational chemistry and of course the political and religious debates surrounding the French Revolution (freemasonry!) . . . Of course the whole project immediately runs the danger of becoming a history lesson . . .
Various early flying contraptions, including a 1783 hot air balloon.
The Herschels.
Animal magnetism
Venus electrificata: "the electrical kiss"
Electrical spark between human bodies
Even I have to admit the futility and ridiculousness of such a fic.
I do think JKR could have been inspired by the 19th century view of 18th century chemistry for her portrayal of Snape (see below), but that is also neither here nor there.
Claës, representative of 18th century chemical obsessiveness in Balzac's La recherche de l'absolu
Snape and Harry are accidentally sent back in time (18th century) by interacting with (Harry touches, Snape tries to push him out of the way) a telescope formerly belonging to Dumbledore. The whole story would resultantly build up around the two of them forming different (optical) perspectives of one another in typical 18th century fashion -- via hot air balloons, Herschel telescopes (comet sweepers), animal magnetism, electrical parlour games, relational chemistry and of course the political and religious debates surrounding the French Revolution (freemasonry!) . . . Of course the whole project immediately runs the danger of becoming a history lesson . . .
Various early flying contraptions, including a 1783 hot air balloon.
The Herschels.
Animal magnetism
Venus electrificata: "the electrical kiss"
Electrical spark between human bodies
Even I have to admit the futility and ridiculousness of such a fic.
I do think JKR could have been inspired by the 19th century view of 18th century chemistry for her portrayal of Snape (see below), but that is also neither here nor there.
Claës, representative of 18th century chemical obsessiveness in Balzac's La recherche de l'absolu