lemonsharks:

star-anise:

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cassiafrankincense:

prongsxdoe:

Ok but someone tell me why Harry didn’t 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 weren’t taught well before. 

Making him become an auror just makes him continue the fight he was forced into as a child and didn’t enjoy, Harry enjoyed teaching the DA. Why wouldn’t he chase after doing something he loves with his life????? And then he’d be able to train the next generation to make sure that they can protect the world, too. 

Two words: grading hell.

Ummm how about because Hogwarts is his second career?  He’d be an even BETTER teacher with years of field experience under his belt.

OOoooohhh like that better–Harry, retired for a year or two, driving his family up the walls because he’s bored and not doing well sitting at home with no evil to fight, at which point Ginny is like, “talk to Neville.” For an entire month. Every weird project, every half-finished balled-up page of his memoirs, “WEll have you talked to Neville yet?”

“No”

“talk to neville”

The next July they movie to Hogsmeade. It is an excellent year and Harry is still frequently late with his grading and at least once accidentally-on-purpose misplaces an entire stack of essays (it’s in his office; he finds it after end-of-term) and does a field trip into the forbidden forest instead.

The slytherins are all very surprised when Harry is a challenging but fair teacher who doesn’t pick on his students even when they’re brats