[ SECRET POST #4090 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4090 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Reylo]


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[black panther, martin freeman]


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[Colm Wilkinson and Philip Quast in Les Mis 10th anniversary concert]


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[Doug Jones]


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Comments

[fscom]

09. https://i.imgur.com/FWTva0B.png

[(Anonymous)]

Who's the guy on the left?

That's Dev Patel.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure it's meant to be the grown-up Indian version of Harry Potter.

Re: That's Dev Patel.

[(Anonymous)]

Is that a popular fan cast, or am I missing out on some canon?

Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Sometimes when I think about Harry Potter, it takes me a moment to separate book/film canon from fanon. A long moment. A lot of it just doesn’t ring true to me anymore, if it ever did, and the HP universe that plays out in my daydreams doesn’t necessarily resemble the ’real’ one all that much.

My enjoyment of this franchise is now so firmly rooted in the collaborative, creative changes (representational and storytelling-wise, or other) that fandom has made, that I get bummed when I remember the ways in which I feel the series is lacking.

(Harry Potter went on to be a teacher at a rebuilt Hogwarts, and the concept of his character doing anything else is completely incongruous to me.)

[Images: Dev Patel in his role in Lion; The Goblet of Fire film behind the scenes, with Dean and Seamus dancing; Noma Dumezweni in her role as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter & The Cursed Child]

[(Anonymous)]

why does it bother people that harry ron and hermione are white? jfc

[(Anonymous)]

why does slash exist for straight characters

[(Anonymous)]

I mean...would it really bother you if they weren't?

[(Anonymous)]

If Rowling had written it as such, no

[(Anonymous)]

Because everyone is now obsessed with representation, even at the expense of characters and good stories. And because most Americans know squat about the culture of the UK, Hermione has to be black to experience racism. Also totally missing that being muggleborn was a big metaphor for Jewish people during World War II and Jews are a mostly a pale bunch but whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Excuse you, I'm not pale, I'm translucent.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t think imagining characters in HP as non-white damages the characters or stories any. I wouldn’t have enjoyed the story any less (or more) if the Weasleys had all been Jamaican immigrants or whatever.

[type_wild]

Just here to agree that Harry being a teacher at Hogwarts will always make 200% more sense to me than him being an auror.

[kamino_neko]

I am very much the opposite. The idea of Harry, of all people, as a teacher is seriously baffling.

[dreamingofcats]

what about as the flying instructor/Quidditch coach? I could see Harry as the PE teacher, since flying is something he enjoys and shines at.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the same boat, although with different fanons/headcanons. The last time I tried to re-read the books I spent half the time going "Wait, what?" and I don't even bother with the movies at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll always love the books more than fic. SHRUG.

(Except you'll never convince me the Weasleys siblings weren't all having hot, kinky, incestuous sex 24/7.)

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! Yeah, I never read a fic as much as I like the books. That's not true for me with other fandom and maybe I'm too biased towards but books but I still love them. Not to say I didn't read good HP fic because I definitely did.

[(Anonymous)]

Harry a teacher? He would have made a horrible teacher. At best he was an average student and that was with Hermione's help. Plus, he really wasn't that talented of a wizard. And before anyone brings up the patronus, remember he still had some of Moldyass' mojo. The same reason he could speak parseltongue. If anyone Hermione should have become a teacher or gone into magic law. JK really wasted her female character's lives.

[philstar22]

I thought she did go into magical law.

[erinptah]

She goes into the Ministry, eventually becoming Minister of Magic. So she's involved with law, but as a politician rather than a lawyer or a judge.

[erinptah]

Nah, the kid spent a bunch of fifth-year running his own off-the-grid DADA class. I agree he's not an outstanding student across-the-board, but he could've learned that material well enough to meet professional teaching standards, easy.

And just as importantly, he showed a talent for meeting learners where they are and getting them to grow via guidance and encouragement. Which is more than you can say for half the established teachers at Hogwarts.

Hermione wouldn't be a good teacher, especially not of middle-to-high-school students, because she wouldn't have any patience for constantly rehashing low-level material she'd already mastered. Magical lawyer would be right up her alley, though.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, magical talent isn't necessarily one of the main things you'd look for in a teacher of magic. I mean, you'd want somebody who's actually competent in the field, absolutely (as opposed to, say, Lockhart), but having somebody who's good at the kind of magic they teach doesn't actually guarantee they'll be a good teacher. Look at Snape. By all accounts an excellent potions master and a spectacular dark arts master and defender, but because of his personality and circumstances also a truly abysmal teacher. Dumbledore as well, though one of the most powerful wizards of his age, was a pretty dodgy teacher/headmaster too, given that his mindset was mired rather firmly in war and the past, and he generally had a lot more success raising soldiers than things like easing school divides or dealing consistently with the student body as a whole. It also doesn't help that he seems to have filled out his teaching roster as much to have a war-ready staff as to have a competent teaching staff. See: Snape, particularly, Lupin as well, probably Trelawny to an extent. McGonagal had the happy bonus of being a war-ready witch as well as being a dang good teacher.

So, I don't know. I think Harry probably could be a pretty decent teacher if it was a field he was interested in. He doesn't have a lot of patience to grind work, which might be a problem for him, but he actually is very good at working with people and teaching them things in a way that doesn't scare the shit out of them or have them wind up in a bathroom crying. Hermione ... might not be quite so good at that part. She has a lot of patience for magic, but she doesn't always have the same patience for people.

[dreamingofcats]

ITA with everything you've said (particularly about Dumbledore focusing more on creating soldiers and preparing for war), but it's funny to me that this whole thread is about Harry's academic prowess or lack thereof and how it would impact his teaching, when flying instructor is a job that exists at Hogwarts and is right up his alley.

I guess he could be a teacher.

[(Anonymous)]

For something he really cared about, but he seemed disinterested in a lot of his schoolwork.

I also think he could be an auror (he had encouragement, but he was always running around investigating things) or something to do with magical creatures (he got along with a fair number of them) or running some sort of foundation/group home for unwanted magical children.