Random GG/HP thought

iztarshi:

I kind of wonder if Klaus would be in Hufflepuff?

He’s really, really defined by Justice as his natural inclination, I think, and not necessarily in a good way.

Klaus does not actually avoid manipulation in governing – for one thing he cribbed half his policies off Valois because he has a lot of respect for what has been shown to work – but a lot of the time when he does what feels right to him he gives people what he thinks they deserve. When he says “no second chances” he doesn’t live up to that – but a lot of the people he gives second chances are the ones he might reasonably see as not having had a first chance. The soldiers who signed on for a way to make a living, the constructs made to serve his enemies.

He killed more readily than the Heterodyne Boys when travelling with them because he believed “some things had to be cleansed by fire” (he and Lucrezia teamed up to burn to death a Spark who had been doing really bad things to their subjects). He gives Merlot power as a punishment. He seems to refuse to use “gentle” tactics on the Fifty Families becuase he sees them as not deserving them. Elsewhere he does use propoganda and has a hell of a knack among his own employees for letting them do what they want (as long as it happens to be what he wants). The Spark who released the crab clank that nearly killed Agatha did it to make things interesting. Klaus made his life very interesting before he died.

He’s very arrogant – no one set you up as judge, jury and executioner, Klaus – but… it may actually be mercy more than justice that he sees as compromising his morals.

“I can be harsh, but I try to be fair.”