Frederick the Great discussion post 12

[cahn]

Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

All the good stuff continues to be archived at rheinsberg :)

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Re: The Sorting, or: The Harry Potter AU

[cahn]

Trenck: the dumbest Gryffindor. But definitely Gryffindor.
Gustav: the dumbest Slytherin. Seriously.

LOLOLOL it's funny because it's true!

MT: Gryffindor with strong Slytherin streak or Slytherin with a strong Gryffindor streak? You decide.

I think MT is a lot like Harry in that she's got plenty of ambition and plenty of courage, and the Hat would be torn. (She's also, of course, completely unlike Harry in a lot of ways.) I also think that she'd argue with the Hat for Gryffindor, because she'd like to think of the "courage" part as the defining part of her personality, and would end up there for basically that reason. (Whether the whole "houses = defining personality traits" division even makes sense or is hella unhealthy, as you and mildred have said, is another matter entirely, of course! Just going by what we've seen in the books.)

Fritz: Ditto. Bravery, ambition and cunning all dominant traits.

I think Fritz would end up in Slytherin. LOLOLOL to y'all's discussion, yeah, I think after Wilhelmine gets sorted into Ravenclaw he's like "OBVIOUSLY I am the ULTIMATE RAVENCLAW, YOU MUST SORT ME WITH HER" and the Hat is all "naw."

At this point either the Hat is so fed up with him that it just yells, "SLYTHERIN!" or gives Fritz the choice between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Fritz remembers MT has been sorted into Gryffindor, is all "They let WOMEN in there!" and picks Slytherin himself.

(OK, OK, I know MT is younger. She seems older though! :P )

Voltaire: Ravenclaw gone bad or superintellectual Slytherin? You decide.

HAHAHAHA! Ooh, this is a hard one. I did know what you meant by "Ravenclaw gone bad," though, HEE. I do like the solution you guys have come up with where he's Ravenclaw with Emilie.

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. 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.

Huh, I like it.

Joseph: Ravenclaw who thinks he's a Slytherin.

HAHAHAHA YES.

Re: The Sorting, or: The Harry Potter AU

[selenak]

LOLOLOL it's funny because it's true!

I knew you'd appreciate my Gustav sorting. BTW, I noticed that when Gertrud Elisabeth Mara Schmeling writes about her fellow singers in her memoirs, she writes about the castratos (Porporino, Salimbene), never about the tenors. Now this might just be a sign of the (about to shift) musical landscape of the times - Castrato voices are still importannt when teenage Mozart writes his first operas, but in adult Mozart's operas, they're no longer an element around which the opera is built - but it could also be she shares your opinion on tenors!

MT arguing with the hat like Harry did because of how she sees herself, with the same result: quite likely, agreed.