having just finished the collected works of oscar wilde for the guzillionth time, i got to thinking,

wouldn't the Canterville ghost make a fantastic undercover jurisfiction agent? what with all of his cunning disguises and creative use of watercolours etc...?

there was a shortage of agents in the last book, so they could probably do with the help!

are there any other as yet unmentioned literary figures that anyone would love to see in future nextian adventures?



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What an intriguing idea...

H'mmm, how about (T.H. WHite's version of) Merlin as one of the agents' supporting personnel, providing them with any enchantments that seem necessary? Or do (the already-uncooperative) Disney own the rights to him, too?


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i'm not sure about T.H. White's version, but there are dozens of other versions, right back to Malory's, so i think you can definetly have that one.

plus theres that whole thing about nine thousand 'male mentor figures' in TWOLP, so Merlin definetly has a spot set up for him



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At the topic of male mentor figures: I bet Gandalf would make a great agent, too...
Or possibly Dumbledore...

Can you really see JK giving JF the rights to include Dumbledore??!!?



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

No, probably not... I was just saying....

I know ;) but I think she shouldn't be so "copyright" about her characters, it would be a tribute to dumbledore, not a micky-take!



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

We can still imagine it. It's not like she can sue us for imagining, is it?

*door bangs*

Hey! You! Repo Bloke! Come back here with all my furniture!



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

If the HP books were in the Library and/or Well, one would hope the Jurisfiction agents police the books to make sure "YOU KNOW WHO" doesn't get out!!!



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GSD! Imagine that! He would kill everyone in the book world, although I don't think he would believe he was fictitious. He would kill anyone who said he was!



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

Would he have magical powers in the real world?



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Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment, I've always called it the Going-Under-The-Water-Safely-Device.

Well of course. His character was written with the powers, that's how the theory of Stonk worked, write it to do anything; go and get it.



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Oh yeah, sorry.
That'll teach me to make posts without having read the books for a few months.



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Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment, I've always called it the Going-Under-The-Water-Safely-Device.

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Don't worry about it! I know sieves with better memory than me!
Although I can recite many episodes of Blackadder, including the whole of Christmas Carol. (That's what we did as kids!)



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

At the topic of male mentor figures: I bet Gandalf would make a great agent, too...
Or possibly Dumbledore...

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but can you see merlin, gandalf and dumbledore working well with each other?


gandalf would want to be in charge.....
(plus wherever he went there would be eight other blokes of varying heights with him, business trips would be a logistical nightmare!)

merlin would keep disappearing off for years on end, only to comeback like some mystic mrs marple, when somebody was about to get popped off or the world was about to go down the karsy.....

and dumbledore would just sit there explaining to everybody what just happened.


i think it has to be a case of this library ain't big enough for the three of em!



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In a fight, I think Gandalf wins. He can make a flash and a smell like gunpowder and all that. And that Mrs. Marple joke made me laugh heartily.
Mrs. Marple is awesome to the max! She's a fencing champion, you know.

really, good lord!

i thought she was just some, highly deductive, wrinkly and amiable portent of doom.

Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote also appears before someone meets their end, but I suspect that she is in fact responsible! Beware the hoardes of muderous lady detetives!
Mrs. Marple has also shown an excellent knowledge of forensic chemistry.

its not just the girls!

look at poirot!

i think possibly the safest course of action if you happens to find yourelf on the same vacation/dinner table/orient express as any of them is to run.
run like the wind!



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What if the only people on the deserted island getaway are Mrs. Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsy? Also, Nick Charles is there. What would happen? None of them can ever die, and there presence foretells death and mystery and betreyal and whatnot.
Or would their combined deductive powers collapse inwards, creating a mysterious black hole of betreyal?