Corrected entry: In the final confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty it is revealed that Holmes switched Moriarty's notebook with a copy. Moriarty opens the copy to find a small page by page cartoon referencing dialogue between the two characters during the same scene when the notebooks were switched. It is impossible for Sherlock to have drawn the cartoon between the moment that Moriarty says the line and the moment when the notebooks are switched.
TheIrishMovieBuff
31st Jan 2014
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Correction: Holmes knows that Moriarty is a fan of Schubert, having heard him listening to one of his songs when meeting him at the college. He probably drew the cartoon afterwards based on that knowledge to rub salt in the wound, even if he didn't know that Moriarty would specifically reference The Trout when they encountered each other.
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Correction: Sherlock is a deductive genius who wins fights by predicting exactly what his opponent is going to do next, even subtly guiding them to do it. It wouldn't have taken much effort at all for him to have directed the conversation to more or less match the cartoon he'd drawn ahead of time.
Phixius ★