One Sole Direction

5 - Gnam! I eat it!

'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.

'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

From Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol

Cambridge, 9th January , 1937

'Mr. Styles I hope you know that you're just a step back to treason.'

Professor Spencer was sitting comfortably in his chair and was too relaed to not understand he was joking.

His connection with Harry, after the first match, has been friendly at the limits of complicity.

He found something to sink his teeth into and, incredibly, he liked it.

The only thing that the Cambridge teachers loved most than the aristocratic young scions of England, were the brightest young scions of England's aristocracy and middle class.

And after many years the world would notice.

The freest democracy in the world, despite the monarchy, despite the House of Lords by right of birth, despite the dark past.

But in 1937 the situation was a little more complex, especially in that Cambridge class, where Harry Styles was inexplicably screaming against Peter Cavendich, guilty of wrong pronunciation of Emile Durkheim, sociologist, historian and now at the center of a dispute around his surname.

Let's be clear.

Cavendich was one of the worst examples of our generation.

Presumptuous thanks to a good fate -was grandson of a duke from his mother's side, but still first in his succession line - was in Cambridge for an extra title than it already was due him, to bask a degree in a prestigious institution, not for what a statement could mean.

It was not the only one who did a wealth of culture rather than an instrument, many of us were so, but on him was a more pronounced defect, because he liked to show his stupidity off.

He was so inept, he applied also at Oxford and this was a disgrace that no one in Cambridge would never forgive .

Across the room, Harry Styles was as far as he could be to such senseless stupidity and has just pointed out, not even dwell on the concept that Peter has expressed – knowing that discuss with Cavendich was not just part of his ambitions, that the considered demeaning and offensive to his own intelligence- like the detail of pronunciation.

'If you only pronounced it properly.'

He said in a tone almost bored but loud.

'Excuse Me,