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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-03-05 07:09 pm (UTC)

Re: The Sorting, or: The Harry Potter AU

Mirror of Erised:

Fritz - Yes, sadly, "Well done, Son" (it's canon, according to Catt's diary and the dream told therein), though I'd like to think at different points of his life he'd also see himself in the Paris opera with the people he loves alive and at his side.

Wilhelmine - sees herself in one of those Roman villas near Naples she's been visiting, only with Fritz instead of La Contamide, and they're both completely healthy and free of any ague. It's a warm evening and somewhere, someone is playing music.

MT - as a young woman ca. 1741 - 1750: Silesians cheering their true Queen's return while some Prussian guy is covered in the dust of the road somewhere in the back where no one even pays attention to him.
- at any time post 1765 - Franz Stefan alive again, holding out his hand to her as he did during their weddding.

EC: Fritz, who has asked her to come to him, greets her as she gets out of the carriage (no other Hohenzollern around! None! Also they are at Rheinsberg somehow) and says "Madame, welcome! Let's go into the gardens together, I think the strawberrys are ripe for plucking!"

Émilie: Newton is somehow alive, and she's debating with him, while the back and forth leads her to understand more and more.

Fredersdorf: he's found the philosopher's stone and presents Fritz with the potion that doesn't create gold, no, it's the water of life that makes both of them completely healthy and immortal. Because for the most part, Fredersdorf did have his ideal life, but he couldn't have born Fritz dying before him, and he would have liked to stick around because he was rather worried how Fritz would fare without him.

SD: No contest, and no, it's not Wilhelmine getting crowned as Queen of England. It's Fritz getting crowned as King of England somehow while his proud mother watches.

FW: as a young man: devoted SD and adoring kids welcome hard-working father home while a very tall man pulls out a chair for him and a voice from above says "this is my beloved son in which I take great joy".

in his late 30s and early 40s: he presents AW to the people as crown prince, and yes, the implication is that Fritz has died (in some way that doesn't implicate FW) while SD tells him how sorry she is and asks for his forgiveness. He is disturbed by seeing this in the mirror, but he does see it.

In his late 40s and up to age 51, when he dies: Reformed Fritz (minus the flute and Sanssouci and the witty pretties) says "I now understand that I owe it all to my dear father" while overviewing a splendid revue of (tall) Prussian soldiers at Spandau.

Henri de Catt: Fritz hands him a copy of the Histoire de mon temps, Catt opens it and sees the dedication to "my inspiration, always, Henri de Catt".

Lehndorff: Heinrich proposes. Marriage to cousin du Rosey and/or Fritz appointing him envoy to Great Britain would also be nice, but the first image the mirror of Erised presents to Lehndorff is definitely Heinrich asking for his hand in monogamous marriage.

Joseph: As a young man: he's just returning to Vienna from some victorious campaign, but not on horseback, on foot, and enthusiastic people accost him to tell him how well the new schools are going; no priest in sight; for some reason, he's wearing a blue uniform.

Last decade of his life: His daughter is alive again, and in his arms, and he's twirling her around.

Voltaire: he's sitting in a box seat, drinking coffee and talking to Émilie and Fritz at the same time while a play of his gets presented below them to thunderous applause, not in Paris, not in Berlin... in Constantinople. Lots of Turks, looking suspiciously like Prussians with darker moustaches, cheering "Vive Voltaire, vive la liberté!"

Katte: he and Fritz are on a boat on the Thames, on their way to somewhere, no idea where, with no one but Händel in pursuit.

(Händel actually hired some musicians to play his stuff on a boat in pursuit of newly crowned Uncle G2, since he was afraid that as G1 had favoured him, G2 might not.)

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