The idea of HH as a runaway wizardboy, OMG. The name! The name! It really does explain that awful name, and it would explain some of those little mysteroius turns of luck. And you wouldn't even have problems with stuff about why he's a wizard and yet so possession-poor -- it's the Weasley thing working all over again, and ahaha. Believe me. This is the wrong path to get me started down. There is so much crack in the idea.
HH would love university so much. I mean, that's what the education his father was kind of aiming him for -- all that French and Latin? And the education that Hornblower later tries to give himself by reading about different lands and so forth? Man oh man. Words can't even descirbe how much I would love a story about Hornblower at Oxford.
(And uh. I'm a retard who's writing a modern-day university version of Hornblower at college. It'll never see the light of DAY because it's spiralling out of control in length. XD)
The spy thing is entirely my own crack creation, alas. I wish somebody would write it because, man. As you say. There's just something about Hornblower being sneaky -- all dressed up and pretending to be someone he's not, getting to have his cake and eat it too, in the sense that he's a player in international politics as well as a man of action. And of course, Bush, the loyal manservant/carriage driver/Q/supper feeder.
Re: *pets Horry's shiny epaulette*
The idea of HH as a runaway wizardboy, OMG. The name! The name! It really does explain that awful name, and it would explain some of those little mysteroius turns of luck. And you wouldn't even have problems with stuff about why he's a wizard and yet so possession-poor -- it's the Weasley thing working all over again, and ahaha. Believe me. This is the wrong path to get me started down. There is so much crack in the idea.
HH would love university so much. I mean, that's what the education his father was kind of aiming him for -- all that French and Latin? And the education that Hornblower later tries to give himself by reading about different lands and so forth? Man oh man. Words can't even descirbe how much I would love a story about Hornblower at Oxford.
(And uh. I'm a retard who's writing a modern-day university version of Hornblower at college. It'll never see the light of DAY because it's spiralling out of control in length. XD)
The spy thing is entirely my own crack creation, alas. I wish somebody would write it because, man. As you say. There's just something about Hornblower being sneaky -- all dressed up and pretending to be someone he's not, getting to have his cake and eat it too, in the sense that he's a player in international politics as well as a man of action. And of course, Bush, the loyal manservant/carriage driver/Q/supper feeder.