infj | ravenclaw | athena kid | frustrated disney princess
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
I already queued this but also, you do this, but still have Ginny become a famous Quidditch player. Imagine the first time Harry gets called “Ginny’s husband” before “the boy who lived” or “the chosen one.” Imagine how fucking pleased he’d be.
Imagine the first time a student comes up to him looking starry-eyed and Harry’s thinking “Oh no” because he doesn’t want to talk about Voldemort or the war but instead this little eleven year old is like “ARE YOU REALLY MARRIED TO WEASLEY FROM THE HOLLYHEAD HARPIES???!?? WHAT’S SHE LIKE?” and he’s like “oh thank god” because he could talk about Ginny all day.
Yes. Good.
Look, you madr me go read Harry Potter fanfiction after 5 YEARS I left the fandom.
(Thanks, I could never really leave the fandom)
If you haven’t read the books
- You won’t know that the Elder Wand was also called the Deathstick
- Ron was actually a Prefect
- Harry, Fred and George got a “life-long ban” from Umbridge after they attacked Malfoy on the pitch
- Dumbledore hired a centaur named Firenze to teach Divination
- Neville Longbotton could’ve been “The Chosen One” but Voldemort chose Harry
- Fenrir Greyback was the werewolf who bit Remus Lupin as a child
- Harry attended Bill and Fleur’s wedding disguised as Barny Weasley, a red-headed Weasley cousin
- Lily was actually a few months older than James
- While still alive, the Bloody Baron, who became the ghost of Slytherin House, was sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to retrieve her daughter, Helena, whom he was in love with. When Helena, who became the ghost of Ravenclaw House, refused to go with him, he became angry and stabbed her. Then, distraught with having killed her, he killed himself
- Harry mended his own wand with the Elder Wand before he got rid of it
- Harry, Ron and Hermione met Neville in St Mungos, who was visiting his parents and his Gran told them what happened to Alice and Frank
- The Potters’ had a cat
- Harry got miniature broom from Sirius for his first Birthday
- Bathilda Bagshot was a friend of the Potters’
• Peeves was a poltergeist who haunted Hogwarts and frequently harassed students
• A house elf named Winky was an integral part of the plot of Goblet of Fire, she was Barty Crouch’s elf
• Dobby worked in the Hogwarts kitchens, Dumbledore paid him a wage and he gave Harry the gillyweed
• Harry and Ginny’s first kiss wasn’t creepy or in the Room of Requirement, it was in the Common Room after winning a Quidditch game
• Snape had his own challenge on the quest for the Philosopher’s Stone that was a test of intellect and included drinking potions
• McGonagal protects Hagrid and takes FIVE spells to the chest in order to let him escape when Umbridge tries to get him incarcerated
• Sir Cadogan! Fantastic painted Knight
• That random piece of glass that Harry looks through and sees Alberforth in, was actually a mirror given to him by Sirius who wanted to keep in contact with him while he was at Hogwarts, it was also what he used to keep in contact with James over the summer and during classes
• Harry has a complete break down after the Sirius’ death and trashes Dumbledore’s office - it’s super cathartic and heartbreaking
#honestly i feel like this is such a beautiful metaphor for the trio #the way they wear their uniforms #you got hermione with everything in its rightful place #tie and cape fixed and all #you got harry whose uniform is a little messy and everything is a bit awkward #and then you got ron #nicely not giving a fuck
I also love that they just came out of an exam where Hermione was all “I quite enjoyed that” and Ron was very much “I did not have a fucking clue” but Harry’s all “My scar hurts, it means something, Voldemort is nEAR”
okay but just imagine sirius being quidditch commentator/gossip queen
- ‘just letting everyone know that gryffindor captain james is very single and very ready to mingle if your name is lily evans’
- ‘jones is no doubt slightly distracted by the fact his girlfriend cheated on him, sorry ‘bout that mate’
- ‘no eliza i will not ask remus out for you’
- ‘if flemming was as good at flirting as he is at blocking goals then maybe he wouldn’t have been rejected by dorcas meadowes last week’
- ‘benjy stop laughing and start playing you’re not as funny as you think you are’
- ‘to the person who asked if emmeline vance had a boyfriend i’m just gonna tell you now you’re not good enough for her’
- ‘excellent beating from lockley there, managing to nearly knock out turner whilst maintaining that perfect hair, how does he do it?’
- ‘yes professor this is all highly important informatio… no it’s not nonsense…. look now you’ve made me miss a goal’
- ‘lily evans says she’ll go on a date with james potter if he scores thirteen times - don’t smirk you bastard you’ll never do it’
- ‘gryffindor’s daley has seen the snitch! oh wait he’s lost it. now daley was it you i saw trip down the stairs yesterday?’
- ‘and turner passes to west who passes to samson who - drops it. its important to note none of the ravenclaw chasers are speaking to each other, i don’t know why, only that it involves a bottle of firewhiskey, a game of truth or dare, and west’s pet cat’
- ‘dorcas meadowes would like it to be known she rejected flemming because she has no obligation to date someone just because they think she’s hot’
- ‘update on the james and lily situation; james has scored eight goals and lily has now got JP painted on her cheek’
- ‘if tom denvers can afford the new nimbus then he can bloody afford to pay me the four galleons he owes me’
- ‘gryffindor now lead 140 - 70, peter pettigrew really needs gryffindor to win or he has to pay lois knight ten sickles and then he won’t be able to buy me a birthday present’
- ‘if ravenclaw would hurry up and lose so we can start the party that would be great’
- ‘party? i don’t know who gave you the impression there would a party tonight professor’
- ‘of course i’m sure, professor, i would know if there was a party happening tonight. i can assure you there isn’t a party in the gryffindor common room at seven-thirty pm. if there was though i would tell gideon prewett to bring his own bloody firewhiskey this time because i’m not paying for his ridiculous drinking habits’
- ‘oh james scored again, him and evans are both smiling far too much if you ask me’
- ‘yes marlene i did say seven-thirty pm. what do you mean you’re busy?’
The view James Potter sees every morning
We r i s e and we f a l l And we b r e a k And we make our m i s t a k e s