oh, god, history. *headdesk*

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Post-LWW fic: Peter is sullen, Susan is still in that state of, "This can't possibly be happening," Edmund is playing his mother and creeping her the hell out, and Lucy is traumatized. Helen Pevensie is also kind of a wreck, because dude, talk about having many things do a number on your psyche all at once.

My state of mind: Wait, so, okay, the Pevensies were evacuated from London somewhere around September of 1940. (The Blitz started on September 7, movie canon shows us that, uh, the Blitz is going on.) And they probably would have returned in 1941? But canon (PC, this time) also tells us they were at school during the course of that year. Book canon (PC, again) tells us that this is supposed to be Lucy's first year at boarding school. So -- Peter, Susan, and Edmund left the professor's house to go to school, and Lucy was left at the professor's house? Or would they have already been back in Finchley at that point in time?

Meanwhile, if I have Peter going running, what would he be wearing and would it be regarded as normal or not? (This is in Finchley.)

...this is why I try and stick to writing about Narnia, not England. I can make stuff up.

ETA: And Helen Pevensie would probably be working, yes? Must check if Papa Pevensie would have returned from his deployment or not.

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Completely random addition of information because I have it: My father was telling me stories recently about his childhood during the war - he lived in Northampton, and his education was severely interrupted by the fact a London school had been evacuated to their school, so they only had the facilities during the afternoons, the other school having them in the morning. (This didn't bother my father, because he ran away to sea at age 16. *G*) My point here is that Lucy probably would've stayed in the country and attended school there for that year.

My instinct is that Peter running really wouldn't be regarded as normal, unless he were in training for something (which we all know he is, but may perplex his neighbours). "Jogging" only really became popular in the '60s. But the cross-country options already touted sound feasible.

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Yeah, I just thought about that, which was a reaction of, "WOW, Lucy is really going to be screwed up, isn't she?" Because she has to go through all this alone, while at least the others are...sort of...together.

I knew the bit about jogging, but I wasn't sure about running. This is good! I kind of want him to be a little bit of a freak.