Excesses that led to the end of the Reign of Terror included the Loi du Maximum Général, which fixed price and wage limits, and, while intended to calm down the lower classes’ discontent, actually ended up causing artificial shortages and discouraged outputs.

  But not even the Loi du Maximum Général was enough to put an end to the Terror; Muggle France’s economic situation worsened greatly, and the Convention had to work with the same disastrous financial situation that once led Louis XVI to convene the Estates-General, only with a more progressive taxation system.

  While Armand retired in his home in Visigny for the rest of his life, Pelléas took over as headmaster of Beauxbatons.

  And yet, the main excess that made the Reign of Terror peak, the Loi des Suspects, caused Beauxbatons to disallow its students to go beyond the wizarding portion of Visigny, but otherwise allowed its students to discuss the goings-on of the Muggle world, so long as they remained within the wizarding world.

  For this reason, Pelléas was disliked by a lot of exchange students who came to Beauxbatons during the Reign of Terror, many of whom (especially Ilvermorny and Durmstrang ones) hoped to learn more about the Muggle world, failing to grasp the Comité de Salut Public’s actions and the context in which the CSP enacted these extraordinary measures: internal threats to the Revolution.

  Yet, Mélisande had one History of Magic section swapped for a French language learner section that every exchange and transfer student had to take. That’s on top of translating Nurcan’s Muggle geopolitics books to English.

  Which had the effect of making Christine and Nacien the main core around whom the students who still wanted to discuss the Revolution at school could do so. Such as the second wave of levée en masse, Marie-Antoinette’s execution, the abolition of slavery, all of which were events the two bonded over a discussion on.

  Alejandra, for these 4 months she spent at Beauxbatons prior to her departure for Varshasagar, witnessed students, such as Femke, develop an unhealthy superiority complex over Muggles regarding the Reign of Terror. Yet, for her final year, she chose to befriend students who didn’t fall prey to it, like Christine, for example.

  However, Alejandra knew, from this point on, that wizards were no better than Muggles, despite having avoided the worst of the Muggle violence, as did Christine and Nacien; the trio became the student body’s voices of reason.

  The final 6 months of both Alejandra and Jace’s educations, spent at Varshasagar, were idyllic to the couple, away from the Great Terror, made worse by the Law of 22 Prairial (June 10). Which ended with Robespierre being guillotined on July 28 (10 Thermidor).

  Catherine, however, would be implicated in a scandal shortly after the end of the Reign of Terror. The Thermidorian Reaction that followed didn’t quite usher into a return to order, since even though it wasn’t as radical as the Reign of Terror, supporters of the previous regime were violently persecuted in turn.

  After the Reign of Terror, many of the students who were close to Nurcan at some point pursued careers after graduation, some in their homelands, others away from home.

  Starting with Isabella, who, after the Armistice of Cherasco, became a translator, specializing in French and Italian, and working in both directions.

  Femke turned to music, and became known for her performances on a flute. Especially when playing it in one of the earliest wizarding performances of the Magic Flute.

  Victoria, on the other hand, became a loan officer at Gringotts, aiding wizards to take out loans well into the Directory days.

  As for Ricardo, he became a curse-breaker, but met an untimely end just days before the Muggle Treaty of Campo-Formio was ratified, killed by Muggle Austrian troops as he was caught in the crossfire.

  Speaking of Austria, the danger posed by Ukrainian Ironbellies to its east, along with the massive wizarding expenditures incurred due to them (relative to its wizarding population), seemed to outweigh the actual benefits it derived from their exploitation.

  The wizarding burden the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria posed on Austria’s northeast was caused by the same Ironbellies for wizarding Russia in the territories they then called Malorossiya, Novorossiya and Taurida. During the Third Partition of Poland, both countries agreed to leave the wizarding administration of these territories to a new wizarding polity called Ukraine, whose capital is Kyiv (it would also become its Muggle capital as well much later), in exchange of which Austria would be forgiven its wizarding debts to Russia.

  Another geopolitical consequence of the War of the First Coalition on the wizarding world came with the Muggle Treaty of Campo-Formio, two years after the Third Partition of Poland, which made Austria definitely abandon what was known until then as the Austrian Netherlands and, unlike its Muggle counterpart, became its own wizarding country, Belgium. And, to wizarding eyes, achieved what the Brabant Revolution couldn’t.

  However, unlike Ukraine, there was no wizarding debt forgiveness involved, since France wasn’t an Austrian wizarding creditor. Nevertheless, Belgium still inherited Austrian wizarding debts directly attributable to it. Which were actually a small fraction of the total Austrian wizarding debt burden, dwarfed several times over by its wizarding debts owed to Russia, none of which were for Belgian costs.

  Yet, in the aftermath of Campo-Formio, the Austrian wizarding community was very angry at its minister of magic, causing the minister in place to resign and be remembered forever in the Austrian wizarding community as the person who lost both Belgium and Ukraine afterward.

  Speaking of Belgium, Griet lived out the rest of her life as a potioneer in Neerwinden, where she occasionally tutored Austrian Dutch (and later, Belgian) wizarding children of half-blood or pure-blood descent in mathematics and potions prior to enrolling in Beauxbatons.

  In comparison, even though Prussia lost all territories west of the Rhine to France, post-Basel, its wizarding government was in much better shape than Austria’s. However, after Prussia signed the peace of Basel with France, its main preoccupation was turned to Poland-Lithuania, and even before then.

  Heinrich became an Obliviator for Prussia but died in the War of the Fourth Coalition, after having had an unremarkable early career during Kosciuszko’s Uprising, and was known more for having survived the 1792 Triwizard Tournament than his accomplishments as an Obliviator.

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  Vincent and Didier remained in Pomerania until the War of the Fourth Coalition rolled around, at which point they both returned to the French fold after Muggle-Prussia’s defeat led to the capture of Berlin.

  However, Vincent would never again deal with the Muggle world during his lifetime, because of the need to maintain his cover of death to the Muggles’ eyes, so his half-brother claimed the family’s share of the Muggle Milliard aux émigrés in 1825.

  As for Vaidilute, she transferred to Beauxbatons upon returning home, no longer feeling at home at Durmstrang, and, while she redeems herself from her previous failure by scoring an A on the Divination HARE, learning French at an appropriate level to take the ASPICs made her slip back into her old otlitchnitsa habits.

  After leaving Beauxbatons, she briefly became part of Poland-Lithuania’s international magical coordination office for the remainder of its existence. Post-Third Partition of Poland, she was employed by Russia’s Collegium of Magic (i.e. its wizarding government) as its international education liaison.

  Relja, upon transferring at Karakalem, decided to take Muggle Studies at SBD level, along with other FYBS-level courses, while also becoming a hit wizard in Imperial service after graduation.

  When Jadranka retired as Headmistress at Durmstrang, her successor, Herodotus, wasted no time overhauling the Divination department, and firing Eugene as well as the previous department head, holding both responsible for it running afoul of international standards in earlier years.

  With her A on the Divination EAGLE, Anne became the junior Divination professor at Durmstrang, with the department head also being a graduate from another continent who, like her, obtained the top grade on both ICW-sanctioned divination tests administered by their home institution.

  Ishkode ended up working for the No-Maj Fraternization Sub-Division at graduation, while Mektaq worked for the Department of Unidentifiable Magical Objects, Elias, as a hex-breaker, and Sabrina, as a journalist for the Washington Ghost.

  Atateken became the headmaster of Ilvermorny by the turn of the century, and Gen, the divination department head after the previous head was killed.

  As a Chaser for the Fitchburg Finches, Landon seems to be alright, but not a star player the way Emmanuelle became as a Keeper for the Haileybury Hammers. The latter obtained Canadian citizenship and represented Canada internationally.

  After graduation, disenchanted with British corruption, Jace moved to Spain to live with Alejandra, and the couple invited several of the survivors of the Triwizard Tournament to their wedding, and professors who taught either one as well. Understandably, Alejandra’s parents never saw so many wizards in the same place before then.

  So, once they were settled in, Jace worked towards his goal of sitting on the Magenmagot, i.e. the Spanish wizarding high court, but, at first, he had to become one of the judges in the Tribunal Mágico, Spain’s wizarding court of first instance. Which itself wasn’t an entry-level job. He only managed to get to the Magenmagot after the Muggle Hundred Days were over, that is, after the final defeat of Napoleon.

  As for Alejandra, her aims were different: she first worked at the Ministerio de la Magia’s Departamento de Asuntos Internacionales (Department of International Affairs), serving as its head during the Peninsular War.

  Paulinho ended up teaching Herbology at Karakalem, shoring up its historically weak position in that area. However, he initially struggled to learn Turkic.

  Now for the Ottomans: Hamza ended up becoming the wizarding equivalent of a playboy. He was, nominally, the assistant to the head of the Gobstones Federation, but he transformed the Gobstones tournaments he organized into lavish parties. During these tournaments, many of which he himself played in, he hit on many of the female contestants, such as Sabrina, who, by 1796, made the American national gobstone team.

  So while he became a very popular figure among the international gobstone-playing circuit, the wizarding defterdar, on the other hand, accused him of wasting public money by regular hosting of gobstone tournaments, despite improving as a gobstone player enough to legitimately make the Ottoman national team later in life, and making the Empire a major Gobstones power.

  Taalia, on the other hand, became a geomancer, as well as architect, employed on various wizarding construction projects.

  Mehmet and Ioannis both became the headmasters of Karakalem, in that order. Under the former’s watch, Karakalem gained a reputation for Muggle Studies on top of Arithmancy and Divination, and a lot of exchange students came there specifically to learn more about the Muggle world, and certainly a few American wizards.

  Saleh, as the head of wizarding diplomacy, wasted no time trying to get relationships with Ukraine established as he saw Ukraine as a buffer zone against Austria and especially Russia.

  So while Nurcan was offered, among other things, to teach Muggle Studies at Karakalem (later filled by another high-achieving Muggle-born), she ultimately chose to become an Imperial diviner.

  Her popularity among the Ottoman wizarding community, even as she wrote about topics as varied as dream walking, dream catchers and European Muggle geopolitics, tended to ebb and flow with the goings-on of the Muggle court. Especially since, as an Imperial diviner, she became the leading wizarding figure among Ottoman reformers.

  So much so that she was awarded the Order of Magical Distinction, Grand Chelengk, in 1800 for her role in drafting and implementing the Muggle Nizam-I Cedid (her role was limited to the logistical and payroll side) and especially the Irad-I Cedid.

  That is, after the Siege of Acre (which was the trial of fire of Muggle Nizam-I Cedid troops), along with her efforts to get the Muggle world closer to the wizarding one. And became the Bab-I Humayun’s chief liaison to the Sultan, as well as the Irad-I Cedid’s defterdar.

  However, whereas her main claim to wizarding fame during the First Coalition years was her expertise of the Revolution, the War of the Second Coalition, in which the Empire was a belligerent when France attacked the Egypt Eyalet, forced her to re-evaluate where she stood regarding the Revolution.

  By 1806, however, she had a falling out with the Sultan, especially when, in the wake of the Edirne Incident, he began moving away from the Irad-I Cedid she championed for so long. As her world collapsed around her, she was traumatized by seeing the work of a lifetime fail before her eyes, and it left her traumatized for years, seeing that the empire she worked so hard to save couldn’t be saved.

  So, during the short reign of Mustafa IV, she might not have had as much favor at court as before, being reduced to being a fugitive, when, under Mahmud II, she became Vizier of Magic, but she inherited a Muggle-fatigued wizarding community once in office.

  P.S.: The History of Magic assignment about the New France Plan caused the professor who assigned it to Alejandra, Jace and Nurcan to get fired at the end of the year. Especially because complaints were filed about it, and described by the plaintiffs as being “so difficult that it could stump even seasoned Ministry professionals”, or alternatively, as “the most troll History of Magic assignment in Hogwarts history” to the point where it ended up in Chroniculus Punnet’s Hogwarts Through the Ages.

  And, of course, it was also described on the order of dismissal as “subversive teaching” by forcing the plaintiffs to revisit the brutality of past administrations, as well as past Muggle failures. However, due to the chaos of the War of the First Coalition, Osbert allowed the professor involved to finish the school year.

  By July 1, 1793, Cuthbert Binns was hired as the new History of Magic professor, a position he ended up retaining well after his death in 1890. He proved much less engaging than his predecessor, so that rather than crushing students under the burden of multidisciplinary assignments, students were put to sleep instead.

  And it was a decision whose consequences were felt across generations of wizards, possibly the worst hire in Hogwarts history.