oh, god, history. *headdesk*

[bedlamsbard]

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.

Comments

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Let us not even get into the fact that somehow the professor lost his house.

...does Professor Kirke have a gambling problem? Because that's the only thing I can think of why he might have lost the manor.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

I...think maybe it was bombed? (Which sort of defeats the purpose of evacuating them out there, but whatever.) Or...something?

And why couldn't they have stayed with Polly anyway? They're calling her "Aunt Polly" by LB!

...Um, and *why* do the Scrubbs have a picture of a Narnian boat on the wall anyway? Who the hell painted it?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

IT IS THE MAGICAL PLOT FAIRY. LET US NOT THINK OF IT.

According to VotDT, Professor Kirke had "somehow become poor since the old days and was living in a small cottage with only one bedroom to spare."

Well, the Scrubbs got the painting as a wedding present "from someone she [Alberta Scrubb] did not want to offend."

Right, Kirke totally has a gambling problem. I'm giving him one, if nothing else; I can't think of another explanation.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

"Why," exclaimed Peter. "It's England. And that's the house itself - Professor Kirk's old home in the country where all our adventures began!"
"I thought that house had been destroyed," said Edmund.
"So it was," said the Faun. (LB)

But I don't know when that would have happened.

I bet he DOES have a gambling problem. "Either she is mad, or she is lying, or there is a magic land in my wardrobe! My money is on the last one." ...And that explains why the house is gone.

...Where on earth did they get it from? I refuse to believe that some random person painted the Dawn Treader just for fun. ARGH, LEWIS.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

So...whoever he lost the house to knocked it down? England's clearly screwed up, man.

Kirke has a gambling problem. Totally canon now!

I bet Polly painted it. Or, I don't know, I kind of like the implication that other Earth people get through to the lands around Narnia sometimes and then go back again.

Or one of the Telmarines that got sent to war-stricken, being bombed by the Japanese AND the Americans South Seas painted it, since I suppose it would have been modeled after a Telmarine ship in the days before the Telmarines were terrified of the sea.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Give Kirke a mad wife in the attic. Give him a mad Narnian wife locked in the attic, who burns the house down.

Yes, I am on the good crack.