Agreed. It's a tossup for me too, with my current superficial knowledge of her.
Re: Voltaire, by "Ravenclaw gone bad" I didn't mean Slytherin;
Ah, okay. I guess I read a parallel in where there wasn't one, probably prompted by your other parallels.
Voltaire's various shady dealings and propensity to lie when caught haven't got much to do with ambition, but financial greed isn't really a factor in the HP novels.
The Malfoys are definitely into acquiring wealth and using it for political gain, but yes. Ambition isn't the only defining trait of Slytherin, though, at least not judging by the Sorting Hat songs. Slytherin's description in the song in the very first book goes:
Or perhaps in Slytherin You'll make your real friends, Those cunning folk use any means To achieve their ends.
Which fits Voltaire's shady deals and lies quite well.
Sob, yes. Would fit with FW trying to keep them separate and secret meetings, though.
Yes, that's EXACTLY what I was thinking, culminating in his imprisonment and most of all her marriage, which basically separated them for life, barring occasional meetings.
*highfives* Yes yes. Though, Émilie doesn't have to be older - Voltaire must repeat a year (oh, the indignity!) because he collected so many punishments and was absent so often for various reasons. He still passed all the tests, but whoever was the headmaster insisted a point had to be made.
HA! Alternatively, Émilie the inimitable manages to graduate early. (We do have to squash ages for this one anyway, as Voltaire is canonically 17 years older than Fritz and 12 older than Émilie!)
Heinrich: insists on Gryffindor because AW is there, despite the hat pointing out to him he might be unhappy there because it doesn't entirely suit him
I really like it. Headcanon!
At some point, it's time for the "what if Fritz was never born?" episode and Heinrich is appalled to find himself as one of the most ruthless Slytherins around.
Oh, yeah.
Henri de Catt thinks he's a Ravenclaw and actually is one until constantly hanging out with Fritz awakens his inner Slytherin, not that he's a good one.
AHAHAAAA, lolsob. Yes. This.
Next question! What do these people see in the Mirror of Erised?
Sadly, I think the "Well done, son" guy's might be cliched but true anyway.
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Re: The Sorting, or: The Harry Potter AU
Date: 2020-03-05 05:26 pm (UTC)Agreed. It's a tossup for me too, with my current superficial knowledge of her.
Re: Voltaire, by "Ravenclaw gone bad" I didn't mean Slytherin;
Ah, okay. I guess I read a parallel in where there wasn't one, probably prompted by your other parallels.
Voltaire's various shady dealings and propensity to lie when caught haven't got much to do with ambition, but financial greed isn't really a factor in the HP novels.
The Malfoys are definitely into acquiring wealth and using it for political gain, but yes. Ambition isn't the only defining trait of Slytherin, though, at least not judging by the Sorting Hat songs. Slytherin's description in the song in the very first book goes:
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
Which fits Voltaire's shady deals and lies quite well.
Sob, yes. Would fit with FW trying to keep them separate and secret meetings, though.
Yes, that's EXACTLY what I was thinking, culminating in his imprisonment and most of all her marriage, which basically separated them for life, barring occasional meetings.
*highfives* Yes yes. Though, Émilie doesn't have to be older - Voltaire must repeat a year (oh, the indignity!) because he collected so many punishments and was absent so often for various reasons. He still passed all the tests, but whoever was the headmaster insisted a point had to be made.
HA! Alternatively, Émilie the inimitable manages to graduate early. (We do have to squash ages for this one anyway, as Voltaire is canonically 17 years older than Fritz and 12 older than Émilie!)
Heinrich: insists on Gryffindor because AW is there, despite the hat pointing out to him he might be unhappy there because it doesn't entirely suit him
I really like it. Headcanon!
At some point, it's time for the "what if Fritz was never born?" episode and Heinrich is appalled to find himself as one of the most ruthless Slytherins around.
Oh, yeah.
Henri de Catt thinks he's a Ravenclaw and actually is one until constantly hanging out with Fritz awakens his inner Slytherin, not that he's a good one.
AHAHAAAA, lolsob. Yes. This.
Next question! What do these people see in the Mirror of Erised?
Sadly, I think the "Well done, son" guy's might be cliched but true anyway.