Ok but someone tell me why Harry didnât grow up to be the best Defense Against Dark Arts professor Hogwarts has ever known
RIGHT??? what is up with this he becomes an auror crap?? Harry would have loved being a teacher and watching his students improve throughout the years. Revamping the curriculum because if he could teach kids as a child himself how to cast a patronus, perhaps everything they think of as only NEWTs levels and beyond really just werenât taught well before.Â
Making him become an auror just makes him continue the fight he was forced into as a child and didnât enjoy, Harry enjoyed teaching the DA. Why wouldnât he chase after doing something he loves with his life????? And then heâd be able to train the next generation to make sure that they can protect the world, too.Â
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YES. I can just picture Professors Potter and Longbottom joking about students and the other teachers during meals, playing mini pranks on Headmistress McGonagall, whoâd purse her lips and remind them that they were adults, then look away before they could catch the twinkle in her eye. All the students would either have a massive crush on them or admire them or both. Harry is the only teacher capable of taming Teddy (who became known as the prank king, comparable to the Weasleyâs twins) and eventually James, Al, and Lily. He develops connections with each of his students and teaches them according to the way heâs noticed they learn best and his classroom becomes a usual hangout for students, as heâs always got food and a âlame dad jokeâ that everyone secretly loves.
I could go on, but I have to stop myself before I get too into this.
Okay, this now officially drives me nuts because this would have made SO MUCH SENSE. And not only because of Harryâs temperament. Yes, he would have LOVED teaching DADA, but do you know who else wanted to teach DADA? Tom Riddle. Voldemort cursed the position so no one could stay for over a year, and Rowling said that the curse broke upon his death. It would have brought the Prophecyâs plot line to full circle, because it shouldnât have been anyone other than Harry who became the first un-cursed DADA professor. It would have been just another part Harry vanquished.
And how important would it be to the students as well, and to him being able to progress with a comfortable, normal life? Because every witch/ wizard in the UK  goes through Hogwarts. The first year after the war, he starts, and the students all come home at Christmas or in the summer and their parents are all âWOW youâve been taught by HARRY POTTER what was he like?â And all these students who are totally over it already like âI donât know, just⌠heâs just Professor Potter. Heâs just Harry. He makes shit jokes and hands out chocolate in lessons. Heâs just a really great guy.â And over the years it stops being people yelling âThe Chosen Oneâ or âThe Boy Who Livedâ in the streets. He goes in to Diagon Alley with his family and everyoneâs like âOh my god, Sir! Hi! Look, itâs Professor Potter!â And no-one wants to know how it felt to die or what vanquishing Voldemort was like- they want to tell him how their doing, and chat with him about how they want to go into the Aurors or Dragon taming, or what theyâre doing now. They want one of their favourite teachers to meet their kids, reminisce about old lessons.
But of course, everyone still knows itâs Harry Potter. And it becomes like a thing among the students, whenever anyone feels low on confidence or like theyâll never achieve things in life, and someoneâll cut in like âOf course you can. Harry defeated the greatest Dark Wizard in memory, and heâs a massive dork whoâs a little bit frightened of his wife and kids, still trips over the trick step, didnât get the date he wanted to the Yule Ball and spills pumpkin juice all over his robes regularly. Heâs human just like you, and if he could do that, you can sure as hell make the DMLE if thatâs what you want.â
Like Harry and Neville being constant reminders to all their students that heroes are just people- just real, normal, faulty people. (And then can we also have Ginny Weasley, taking some time off from playing professional Quidditch so she comes to do a few years as the flying coach. And her first year Harry goes down to the pitch with a few of the 7th years he has under his wing, and Ginny being, as always, vaguely terrifying but in an incredibly attractive way. And all these 7th years just gaping at her like âWoah. You are married to her?!â And Harry just massively smug like âYeah, I know right?â)
So Iâm totally gonna make everyone sad now. Each heâll teach some students during the first year, specially the third-year class he would remember Remus and how he was a good teacher. Like Remus would be his role model
But have you considered Professor Potter visiting Professor Hagrid each and every day for tea? (And bringing a group of good-hearted students with him?)
