Thread:SarahmHolmes/@comment-24588058-20170307080812/@comment-24588058-20170313164806

We have plenty of Alice in Wonderland things. Although. . . . maybe we make it a question of who existed before whom? If you pitch the idea as the boy's love of the story and, say, the death of his parents, combining to form this as an artifact, maybe Draco would approve. King Richard III's Crown causes madness in the wearer, and is the origin of the Mad Hatter for Alice in Wonderland (who, interestingly, was never called such in Carroll's original stories). You could always make it based off of Disney's version, which is a lot more of a childish madness than Carroll's version.

As for the above above (Pete and Claudia finding the Baskervilles book), I like the idea of the artifact activating by being read, or perhaps even only when specific pages are turned to. It could explain how the artifact escaped the attention of the Warehouse for so long. When they search and it appears the victims died from a dog or wolf, they search the house, just in case the artifact is still there. Pete opens the book, unknowingly to the page which releases the Hound. Claudia quickly bags the book, which sparks violently as it neutralizes and removes the Hound.