The Woman

‘He [Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.’

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence

“I didn’t know there was this much green in the whole galaxy.”

Because.

There’s not a great big spurt of blood and you go flying backwards.The impact isn’t spread over a wide area. It’s tightly focused, so there’s little or no energy transfer. You stay still and the bullet pushes through.

Moodboard: Sherlock [2010 - ] Shut up everybody, shut up! Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t breathe, I’m trying to think. Anderson, face the other way, you’re putting me off.  

[insp]

Oh, please, killing me? That’s so two years ago.

Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.

Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.

Pocket map of London, c. 1890