"Majesty" (Minerva McGonagall, HRH; PG) by Kelly Chambliss

[kellychambliss]

Title: Majesty
Author: Kelly Chambliss kellychambliss
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, HRH
Word Count: 6000
Prompt: #60 -- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. --Amelia Earhart(July 24, 1897

Comments

[miss_morland]

Wow -- however did you come up with this idea? And how did you make it work so well? *is impressed*

Your Queen Elizabeth is wonderful; I like your portrayal of her strengths and weaknesses, and I appreciate the way you show us that even a princess sometimes makes a fool of herself (now that's a consolation for the rest of us *g*).

Your MM is spot-on, of course, and I like the portrayals of Kingsley and the Muggle PM as well.

Some favourite bits:

No, actually, she grinned. There was no other word to describe it -- she positively grinned.

She. . .she's just like a grandmother, was Kingsley's disappointed first thought -- Hee. Well, she is one, after all...

the sound of her voice was like Scotland itself. It was the sound of the Queen's own childhood, of the land that was also the refuge of her adulthood, the one place where she could walk or ride or drive by herself, where she could get muddy and work with her hands and or just sit and watch the sky.

someone like Minerva, who wanted details of Muggle scandals and politics about as much as she wanted a case of spattergroit.

Lovely!

One thing, though -- shouldn't 'gentleman' in the fifth section be 'gentlemen'?

[kellychambliss]

Thanks so much for the detailed response! I'm always so glad to know what works. I don't quite recall what made me think of this meeting, but it was fun to write (as well as agonizing; for some reason this story gave me a lot of trouble /g/)

Thanks for spotting "gentleman" -- fixed.