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professor--halloway:

Harper paused, internally smacking their own forehead. “Right.” Harper’s ears burned, and they could feel their cheeks getting just a bit redder. “Right! Well, um.” They paused, trying to search for a question to ask to cover up the fact that they’d been thinking of Aryan practically nonstop since their… trip to his office. “Well it’s my birthday, so I was… wondering if maybe you’d be interested in coming out with me? To celebrate?” Harper fidgeted, sweeping some hair over their shoulder but standing their ground.

Harper was ADORABLE when they were embarrassed and Aryan couldn’t get the smile off of his face as he looked at the other. Aryan nodded because he already knew it was their birthday and he had been waiting for the right moment to give Harper their gift. But now it seemed like he’d have the perfect opportunity to later on. “I would LOVE to -- definitely! How could I possibly say no to you?”

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professor--halloway:

Harper outright laughed, covering their mouth with their hand as they allowed Aryan to lift the bag away. “I suppose helping me carry them is all I’m going to get. It was worth a shot, though.” Harper shook their head, smiling up at Aryan. “I can’t believe I’m going to help you re-work your curriculum and you won’t even help me mark essays!” They joked, pouting playfully. “C’mon, then, if I’m going to help you I need to see what I’m working with.” Harper took hold of Aryan’s hand without thinking, walking toward his office and tugging Aryan along.

“These arms were made for carrying your books.” Aryan tensed his arm as if to show off his bicep to Harper before a soft laugh left his lips. All he managed was to stutter out a soft noise of semi-protest as Harper took his hand, not having time to speak before he was dragged off. As much as he was enjoying this, he didn’t want any students to see them like this either so he was glad that his office was only a short walk away so he wouldn’t have to reject Harper. “If you come up with any good ideas then MAYBE I will consider helping you mark.”

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professor--halloway:

@profaryandesai

Harper had absolutely no reason to be thinking about their ex as often as they were. It wasn’t like Aryan had been being particularly romantic or anything, but Harper couldn’t help but feel their heart skip up to their throat whenever he was around lately. Of course, as Harper’s thoughts drifted to Aryan again, they rounded a corner and there he was! Embarrassed, Harper could feel the color rising to their cheeks. “Oh! Um, Aryan! Funny running into you… here! I was just thinking about y–” Harper cut themself off before clearing their throat and continuing. “I was just thinking about something I had to ask you.”

Everywhere that Aryan went, Harper seemed to be there. Not that it was a bad thing of course but when he still wasn’t fully over his ex and when his insides still tingled with butterflies whenever he saw them, having them pop around every corner didn’t make his life any easier. Aryan almost felt his cheeks go the colour of Harper’s and he suddenly felt very glad that he was inclined to not using a razor. “Funny running into me even though I work here?” His words were dripping with sarcasm but as usual, there was humour behind his eyes as he spoke. “Ask away. I’m perfectly happy to stay here with you and continue avoiding my responsibilities.”

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professor--halloway:

Well that was a reaction. Harper bit down on the inside of their lower lip before eyeing Aryan. The head tilt made Harper raise their brows, grinning back. Harper tilted their head as well, squinting up at Aryan a bit. “Only if you don’t mind helping me, too.” Harper said, gesturing to their messenger bag full of student assignments.

Everything about Harper was just SO ENDEARING that Aryan would happily drop everything for his fellow professor. He couldn’t even remember what he was originally doing as all he wanted to do now was spend his afternoon with Harper. “Help you carry them or help you mark them?” he asked with raised eyebrows and a wry smile. “Because I’m only willing to do one of those options.” With a short laugh, he took the bag from Harper and slung it onto his own shoulder.

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jarcthcarrow:

“ having trouble with students again are we? ” he asked, lowering his copy of the daily prophet to give his colleague a proper look. “ say, that’s NOT a bad idea though. ”

“Aren’t I always?” Aryan replied with a short sigh, glaring down as the frustratingly small pile of essays he had to mark. In theory, he knew he should have been happy by the lack of response and eagerness to complete his homework task but it FRUSTRATED him how lazy his students were. “I feel like I’d get more interest in that than actual homework.”

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nate-travcrs:

“Well uh… my cat peed on my essay, I SWEAR TO MERLIN!“ Nathaniel raised both of his hands up in defence, looking directly into Professor’s eyes. 

Aryan looked somewhat disgusted and raised both his eyebrows. “Does your cat not have a litter tray or are your essays so awful it decided your essay would make a better place to piss?”

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professor--halloway:

Harper definitely noticed the attentive look on Aryan’s face, but chose to mostly ignore it in favor of their conversation. They did however, sweep a stray lock of hair behind their ear, wondering if Aryan would notice that, too. “I am so sorry I suggested it.” Harper laughed at the thought of Aryan having to grade things that had penises doodled on them. “I’ll help you come up with something aside from essays or actual potions.”

Aryan slowly breathed out, hoping and praying that Harper didn’t realise that NOTHING had changed since they were both young and fresh out of Hogwarts. At least not on Aryan’s side, anyway. Biting down on his bottom lip, he swayed his head to the side slightly before giving the other a lopsided grin. “Did you want to come back to my office to help me out?”

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jcnathan-thegreat:

“Aw come on! Let the kids live a little mate!” Jonathan rolled his eyes playfully, shaking his head. “Who cares about essays when there are so many BETTER things going on right now? Did you have fun during Halloween?”

“I did all my essays when I was at school, therefore THIS LOT can find time to do them too.” Aryan huffed because he didn’t know why none of them seemed capable of balancing a social life and a couple of essays as it wasn’t difficult. “Halloween was great after eight when I could go to bed and not deal with students dressed in Merlin knows what.”

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jeremywccd:

“But Professor, I solemnly SWEAR to you that the giant squid most definitely DID eat my homework. Honestly…at this point I suppose you’ve heard every excuse in the book. Or is it all just the giant squid or blaming it on the poor house elves?”

“I feel like the poor house elves get a fair share of their blame as well. They apparently steal so much I wouldn’t be surprised if I find some homework in my bloody BREAKFAST tomorrow morning.” Aryan gave Jeremy a wry smile and shook his head. “I’ll give them credit, a few of them are a bit more creative. Or plain honest.”

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zachevergreen:

Zach couldn’t help but laugh as he handed over his own essay to his professor. “That’s funny. Who came up with that tired out excuse this time?” He asked, just out of curiosity. “It’s like when people in the muggle world say that their dog ate it. So stupid.”

“Thank you, Evergreen -- at least I know there’s ONE reliable student here.” Aryan sighed and put the essay on his pile of ones which had actually been handed in -- which was a total sum of TWO. “James Potter, of course. But I’ve heard every excuse under the sun from him.”

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professor--halloway:

“Okay but to be fair, when we were in Hogwarts the ‘Giant Squid Ate My Homework’ excuse was the go to!” Harper laughed again, moving to pull their hair up into a bun to get it out of the way. “I’m not saying they should have to make potions outside of class, but what if you had them do a visual thing? Like instead of essays they could illustrate the processes of a few potions? Something to demonstrate they understand the material without just regurgitating information from the text book?”

Aryan watched for a moment, somewhat mesmerised as Harper pulled their hair up into a bun before recollecting himself as he realised he was mid conversation and didn’t have time to get distracted by Harper anymore. “That’s NOT actually a bad idea. At least that way I don’t have to spend my evenings deciphering my students’ awful handwriting. Instead, I’ll be deciphering something that probably has penises drawn all over it.”

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fairchildpuff:

“That’s sad on behalf of the giant squid! Not getting a nutritious meal and all, I don’t suppose our parchment would be appetizing.” A brow arched after a moment of thought. “Was that sarcasm? I’m sure everyone was just…excited about Halloween.” Holidays and Quidditch games were two things that tend to distract the student body from academics. 

“I’m fairly sure there’s enough fish for him to snack on in the lake so I wouldn’t worry too much about his apparently poor diet, Fairchild.” It took all the effort he had not to sigh deeply at that because evidently most of the students seemed to think that feasts were excuses not to do anything. “Halloween is NOT a good excuse to not do homework. If everyone put as much effort as they did into their costumes as they did into schoolwork then there would be a lot of happier professors.”

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professor--halloway:

“I had someone tell me the Whomping Willow destroyed their textbooks.” Harper said seriously with a shake of their head. They laughed shortly after, though, running a hand through their hair. “Honestly, we should just try to find a better way to give homework, as clearly, essays aren’t working.”

“At least they TRIED to make a good excuse. I feel like the students aren’t even trying when they tell me the Giant Squid ate it.” Aryan sighed and shook his head before he frowned and pulled a face. “With POTIONS? I don’t think so. I don’t trust half of them making potions IN the classroom, let alone OUT.”

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“If the GIANT SQUID ate as much homework as he supposedly does, I’m pretty sure that he’d be so giant he couldn’t actually fit in the bloody lake. Maybe I should start giving points out for the creative excuses as NOT doing essays is a trend that’s going up rapidly.”

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Rahul Kohli for Just Jared

[lewis-tan]

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HELLOOOOOOOOOO IT’S ME AGAIN WELCOME TO MY NEW MAN-CHILD ARYAN. i’m too lazy to do his theme just yet so that’ll be a thing tomorrow and i’ll probs also start playing him tomorrow when the event is over so yep anyway here we go

idk i haven’t really thought about this shit so i‘m making it up as i go along but tbh he’ll probs be a lot like ravi from izombie knowing me bc I LOVE RAVI SO MUCH

he was a ravenclaw and probs pretty nerdy and that annoying kid everyone hates bc they’re good at everything??? he was like snape and liked to experiment with potions and shit and tried to invent his own and probs ended up almost blowing up the dungeons far too many times

when he left hogwarts he moved to america because he heard it’s pretty good there and everyone loves a good british accent. idk what he did there but he probs had a lot of fun 

eventually he ran out of money and was like “oh shit i’d better get a job” so he ended up being a teacher at ilvermorny and taught potions for a few years

buuuuuuuuuuut he had to leave bc both his parents got sick with dragonpox or something and they ended up dying within days of each other so he was v. sad. he didn’t want to move back to america again so he got a teaching job at hogwarts instead and there he has remained to this day

random facts time: he’s probs a good boy and doesn’t drink much/smoke/take drugs but this one time he went out to the hogs head with a few teacher pals and got drunk af and that was the last time bc SOMEONE SOMEWHERE OUT THERE HAS HIM DRUNK ON THEIR SNAPCHAT STORY

really likes cats but is allergic to them so he’s basically dying all the time with the amount of damn cats around the school so HEY maybe that’s why he’s grumpy bc he can’t pet all these cats :/

he’s probably invented a potion but i’m not really sure yet so i’ll come back to you on that one

is single 5eva bc he’s the worst at flirting ever so hit him up ladies and gents who are not students (pls don’t hit on him students bc he’ll cry). i was gonna make him straight but i suck at that so he’ll probs be bi lmfao

yeah that’s it, come and plot withe me pls <3