Fic rec: Sherlock Holmes and the Ravenclaw Codex

[dogandmonkeyshow]

Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Ravenclaw Codex
Author: dolorous-ett / pavonis
Pairing: Gen
Length: ca. 30,000 words
Rating: G
Verse: ACD, cross-over with Harry Potter 'verse (but not in book time)
Author's summary: A Sherlock Holmes mystery set in Victorian Hogwarts and London. A valuable artefact has been stolen from Hogwarts, and the only suspect - a Muggleborn pupil - has disappeared. Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black summons Holmes to Hogwarts to retrieve the Ravenclaw Codex, but things are not as simple as they seem, and Holmes and Watson soon find themselves in the middle of a most perplexing case.
Reccer's comments: This is a 2007 cross-over of Doyle canon Sherlock Holmes in a speculated Harry Potter universe in Doyle's time, so not exactly a cross-over. Ett has produced a wonderful Doyle-era fic, chock full of great OCs and featuring a veritable moustache-twirling Phineas Nigellus Black, the most hated Headmaster in the history of Hogwarts. The story has all the features of a satisfying Doyle-era story: an intriguing case, travel to distant parts, a dastardly client, as well as a new cadre of eager assistants for Holmes, who dub themselves his "Hogwarts Irregulars". Ett pulls off some of the best Doyle-evoking prose I've come across in fandom, that lets you slide without a hitch into Holmes' world. A satisfying read all 'round.

Comments

[geneva2010.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this story! Thanks so much for the rec - really outside the box but great fun.

[dogandmonkeyshow]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It really is outside the norm, especially for the HP aspect of the story.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, I had totally forgotten about this story! I remember liking it very much when I first saw it years ago, and I'm delighted to have the chance to revisit it. Thanks so much for recc'ing it here!

[dogandmonkeyshow]

It was my pleasure! I've been keeping in it my back pocket as a rec since I came into Sherlock fandom and found this comm. And reccing it gave me the excuse to go back and re-read it for the first time since Ett completed it. I first read it from the POV of an HP fan, with no experience of Sherlock Holmes fandom and was delighted by it then. Rereading it now made it an even richer experience.