how did jk manage to write ootp and not come to the conclusion that the only career w any true meaning for harry james potter was as a goddamn professor at hogwarts like how do u write the da scenes and say “nah he’d want to be a wizard cop”
#just let him dress in warm sweaters and have tea with neville in the staff room and help first years #harry james potter as hogwarts longest serving defense against the dark arts teacher fucking fight me (@batcii)
#but it would be so perfect??? #bc it would help normalize his life so much #like there would just be this generation of kids who are like #‘ugh who cares that he killed the dark lord he gAVE US HOMEWORK OVER BREAK’ #like the beginning of every year there would be the new first years who would freak out a little #but then it would calm down #and most of the students would literally forget #until like clockwork the fifth years would have their history of magic class on the second war #and they’d all show up to DADA looking a little awestruck and everyone would be extra quiet #and harry would give this kind of annoyed sigh—except it’s fake bc he TOTALLY knew this was coming #bc binns is a bro and he totally gives him a heads up every year #and harry wouldn’t have any lesson plans for the day and instead he would just sit at the front of the room and answer everyone’s questions #but otherwise everyone would just be like ‘professor potter!! i can’t get my patronus to work! help me!’ #and like they’d go home at the end of the year or for break and their parents—who ARE still starstruck by harry james potter #would pester their kids with questions#and the kids would just be like ‘merlin i don’t know?? potter’s such a huge dork you should hear him talk about proper wand movements’ #but they would all love him #and he would feel safe and normal and utterly accepted #AND I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE (via @cinematicnomad)
Not to mention it would be an ultimate Fuck You to Voldemort, who put a curse on the teaching position in the first place.
Like, Jo, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but COME ON
- harry sitting in the greenhouse garden sipping herbal tea and grading papers
- he has regular sunday afternoon tea with mcgonagall
- feeds the thestrals with neville every time he goes visit hagrid
- hair still one hell of a mess and dressed in weasley sweater and muggle jeans but eyes significantly brighter
- “mr. thomas, although the expelliarmus spell has proven to be extremely useful cited in one of the most important battle in history, do consider that it cannot be the only spell you are skilled at. and certainly please do not write ‘this bitch nasty yeet’ in your essay”
- still leads the duelling club
- holds quidditch match with the other professors
- successfully drags the stoic and strict professor with him and tried to push him off his broom
- the students can always find him in the gardens and they would all sit down in a crowd around him and he would tell them stories
- stories of the adventures he got up to at school
- “mom stop freaking out it was just one detention potter got loads of them in school”
- carries baby teddy on his hip as he teaches
- gives out free chocolate
- “i said i have enough trouble for a lifetime and that’s why i went back here to teach bUT MINERVA OLD VOLDY IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE KIDS” “ok but i still love them to bits”
- doesn’t give out detention to kids if they sneak back in from the secret passages
- generally enjoying a comfortable, normal, peaceful life
- “potter why tf did you tell the kids your husband sulked for an hour after you refuse to buy him sweets do you know i have a reputation to uphold ??” “relax draco first off you did sulked for an hour and second off no students knows we’re married” “yeah and that’s because i’m not an oversharing prat teacher, unlike you!!”
- the students totally know they’re married
- harry cries every time he receives xmas presents from his students
- hogwarts is his home and this career is exactly what he needs
I am 10000% on board with this
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