My head canon is Neville eventually becomes Headmaster and the proceeds to nag and brow-beat Harry into retiring from Auroring and teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts.
I have this head-canon as well! (Mostly because I misread the last chapter the first time 'round and believed when they mentioned 'Professor Longbottom,' it was because he had become headmaster.) And I like it much more than him just being the herbology professor.
Speaking of the Ford Anglia. I want to see the story that led to the vehicle becoming sentient and I suppose perpetually powered by magic. Not to mention its ejector seats and trunk contents attributes. And of course its adventures in the Dark Forest.
I’ve always headcannoned Luna as apprenticing and learning from Olivander to become a wand maker. She had spent several months imprisoned with him and had a strange ability to understand people beyond the surface, like identifying Harry under polyjuice potion. It seemed so perfect to me.
Harry is a natural teacher and should have followed that career path. (I'm re-listening to Order of the Phoenix) Harry began creating lesson plans in his head immediately after Hermione asks him about teaching them defense. That's exactly what natural teachers do: figure out what people need to know and design a path to get them there. What a missed opportunity.
my head canon is that after being head of the auror office, and maybe after his kids have grown older and left home, harry went back to Hogwarts in his later years as DADA teacher
Totally agree and the fact Voldemort cursed the position when he was rejected, I feel like it would be fitting for Harry to take the position after Voldemort dies and the curse is lifted
I feel he would have wanted to first clean up the remaining death eaters and other dark magic that would still be lingering around over teaching. So for him to still be an Auror at 36 is not really surprising to me. That is not to say that he can't jump to teaching later on in life either...
@@macattackk Agreed. Some of the previous headmasters/headmistresses had held other jobs before becoming heads, so no reason Harry couldn't first be an Auror then go on to teach defense and even become headmaster, in his later years.
I always thought Harry should’ve played Quidditch professionally. He was clearly good enough at it, and he always describes it as his favorite thing to do in the world. Plus, after a childhood where he had to grow up so fast, it would be nice for him to get to just have some fun
Yes!! The one thing he loves so much and was so good at especially after so much trauma/sacrificing so much of himself for others. He should have played quidditch and then when he ages out of the teach DADA!
I feel like being the defense teacher would have given Harry's life more meaning after the fact. Hogwarts being the place he considered home, and being able to be there teaching what he learned the hard way seems like the perfect ending. And he can now be in the teachers' stands watching the new generation play quidditch.
@@KiaStout i agree that eventually he would want more, and I do love the idea of him teaching DADA eventually, but if I was 17, and had just saved the world after almost dying every year for 7 years, I would want some time to just have fun.
In my headcanon, Harry is just waiting. Getting real experience fighting more typical dark wizards (most dark wizards are not like Voldemort). Waiting for his kids to graduate so there’s no chance of “dad you’re embarrassing me in front of my friends (who are also your students)” And also no chance of being accused of favoritism for his kids in his classroom. Once little Lily Luna Potter graduates from Hogwarts, Harry will retire from being an Auror in order to become the DADA teacher at Hogwarts. That’s my headcanon.
Why can't Harry be an Auror and then a professor? Look, that way you would have the best of both worlds. That's what the plan was supposed to be with Moody, a former Auror. Harry could be an Auror until the age of 65 or so. And this way you would have a much more experienced and wise Harry who then decides to lead a quieter life as a teacher until he retires
Also 100% agree with this statement. We get a single snapshot of his life 19 years later, meaning he is only 36 years old and don't really know what happens after that. Plus I feel he would have been fully committed to wanting to "clean-up" the remaining death eaters over teaching first, which I imagine would have taken several years.
Although Dracos redemption is the biggest change needed, I do like the idea of Harry being DADA teacher and putting the Elder Wand back to Dumbledore, basically meaning the first kid he ever teaches to disarm him basically becomes master of the wand, and he then has the class routinely practice it, and with other years so the true owner is lost forever
Personally I like the movie ending because the best way to ensure that the wand doesn't end up in the wrong hand is to make sure it is destroyed forever, something I think Dumbledore should have done once he became the true master of the wand...just saying
About why Harry didn’t name one of his kids after Lupin, I saw a headcanon on Instagram that gives a good explanation. Here’s what it said… ‘A lot of people wondered why Harry and Ginny hadn’t named one of their children after Remus. People thought that maybe Harry didn’t like Remus, but that was beyond opposite. The truth was he already felt like he had a son named after Remus. Teddy Remus Lupin. He felt that Teddy was a son to him so why name a second child after Remus.’ Hope that explains why for anyone who was wondering.
If Harry was naming his kids after people important to him, he should've named his daughter Lily Hedwig Potter and his sons Dobby Dobby Potter and Dobby Dobby Potter
Harry being an Auror to get some real-world experience before becoming a professor is a worthwhile idea. There's teaching how to cast a spell, there's teaching how to duel, and there's teaching how to maintain your composure and remember your magic fundamentals while in a chaotic fight for your life. Harry can do the first two, but I think he'd want some professional experience before trying the third. His handful of battles with the Death Eaters and his experiences with Voldemort are all fine and good, but the context is a bit narrow.
I read a fanfic having Harry being the DADA professor, and my favorite part was how normal Harry becomes. He's no longer the famous "Chosen One", but normal Professor Potter.
it would be really interesting from a story pov if like he is still kind of famous, so like new first years come in with a head full of Professor Potter fame stories and are super intimidated or infatuated, but but all the higher years just see him as normal ordinary Prof Potter and like to laugh as the new students trip over their own about it.
The final line also directly runs contrary to Harry becoming an Auror: "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." Not really an outlook that should lead to that.
@@tommarsdon5644 Naming your kid after someone doesn't require that person to be dead first. Hagrid would probably be overwhelmed with happiness when Harry tells him.
I've had an idea in my head for years that Harry gives his (obviously AU) daughter the name Ruby, to Hagrid's delight. I've seen it a couple of times in fanfiction, but that's it.
I would include a scene where McGonagall does offer him the position but he declines claiming lack of experience but says he will be open to it in the future
I wanted Harry to free Kreacher in the end. I mean I didn't think about it until he mentioned the sandwich, and then it occurred to me that Kreacher is no longer a liability to give the Death Eaters any information.
@@nelsonsamuelsanchez it's canon that the Hogwarts ones and Winky didn't, it's also canon that Dobby liked being freed, so I don't really find that a finalizing point. Kreacher became content with Harry eventually, I still don't think they had any reason to continue having anything to do with each other afterwards, literally nothing in their lives aligned with each other.
That book came out on my first wedding anniversary. My wife read it. I started reading from book one. We both spent the day in central park reading. It's the paper anniversary.
Harry after the final battle: "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." Harry sometime between the final battle and the epilogue: "I'm going to be an Auror. I'm sure catching dark wizards won't be too much trouble."
...just a mild correction Mike. Can we consider Molly Hatchet's, Flirtin' With Disaster? OR, OR, OR.... ZZ Top, Arrested For Driving While Blind? I suppose in a multi-verse we can have 'em all
I thoroughly disagree on your theory on who Neville and Luna should have ended up with (each other) vs who they did end up with (Hannah Abbot and Rolf Scamander respectivel). I think it feels more realistic that some of them ended up with somebody we (the readers) didn't really know. Hogwarts wasn't the end of their lives and things happened to them after they left. Additionally, it's presumptuous of us to assume that whatever we knew about the characters is all there was to them. Hannah and Neville might have been good friends throughout the series and we didn't know because we only saw either of them through their importance to Harry's story. And Rolf and Luna make perfect sense given they both are in the same career field as adults.
Nah we all know it should’ve ended with Snape having drank some anti venom, shooting Voldemort in the head and using the time turner to go back and kill Tom.
If we take just what we see in PoA and forget that The Cursed Child exists, Snape would have to flip the time turner something like 600.000 times to get back to when Tom Riddle was a child, and then take the slow path back to the present. It'd be like Steve Rogers disappearing at the end of Avengers: Endgame and then being seen on the bench as an old man.
“What happened to Umbridge” so Universal Orlando is putting in a new ride that takes care of this lol, look up their announcement of the new wizarding world section of epic universe.
umbridge went into Azkaban for the rest of her life but it was a very unsatisfying fate because kingsley (the new Minister) got rid of all dementors so her fate Was no where near as bad as the innocent muggleborns she imprisoned
The ride should have a gang of Centaurs (who can read the stars, duh) heaving a distressed, disheveled and screaming Umbridge into the path of the oncoming Ford Anglia (which the park goers are riding in) and on impact she...okay so its a hologram, bursts into a ginormous gush of water, ala Splash Mountain, subsequently soaking all the riders. This concept would also be an economy booster giving trauma therapists a client base for life.
Honestly, some of these things would be too…cliche’ Neville killing Bellatrix would be too expected Or Draco getting some definite redemption Or if all the good guys survived Or if all the characters ended up with main characters That’s not realistic It’s the picture perfect conclusions people expect
It depends on the kind of reader you are. For me I prefer thematics and narratively satisfying endings. Because fitting to me is the better trade off to suprised.
Yea those I think we're a bit cliche but I feel like a lot of Harry Potter is setting up for things that have no payoff. Like the hat talking about division between houses, then changing like nothing about that? Or at least not confirming anything and having to leave it up to viewers Or the ministry being a messed up system being so clearly established then again just nothing coming off of that
@@m4rcyonstation93 the Ministry being corrupt plays a big part in OotP lol It’s the reason Voldemort is able to build up his whole army without any resistance
I’m going to argue about the Albus Severus part. Snape gave his life to do whatever it took to defeat Voldemort. He was basically a slave to that goal. And it was also a part of atoning for Harry’s mother’s death. That makes him very significant to Harry, who really saw all that Snape gave.
I thought that but when I read the books I saw that he was so much worse and a BIG BULLY so I don't know why anyone else like lupin or dobby could have been it
Regarding on why Harry didn’t name one of his kids after Remus Lupin, I think I read on Instagram that Harry was like a father figure to Remus’s son Teddy and I think Teddy was named after his father (in some way) so I guess there wouldn’t have been need for Harry to have a second child named after Lupin if there was already one. (I know the explanation went something like this, but if I was wrong with how I explained it, please correct me)
"Albus Rubeus Brian Hedwig Dobby Potter, you come here right now!!" Replayed this part about 100 times, cracking up the entire time. Of all SCB Potter content I've watched, I mean, it's been all clever and funny, but this took the cake for me.
To be fair, When Voldemort applied for DaDA he was told he was too young and to come back in a few years. Harry likely wouldn't have been able to become a professor right away. Also there's still the possibility he could become the DaDA professor later on, after having been an Auror, which if anything would likely make him an even better teacher with even more experience. I can see Harry not staying an Auror forever and eventually becoming a professor still.
@@KiaStout Snape was 21 years old when hired, yes, but that's still not right out of school (in the wizarding world that's around age 17, possibly 18 depending on birthday. Snape had recently entered into Dumbledore's service as a spy, and Horace Slughorn had recently quit the post about 2 months into school term, so Dumbledore was likely looking to fill rather quickly. Unfortunately we have a few bits of conflicting information in canon surrounding these events: 1) Snape tells Bellatrix he was at Hogwarts when Voldemort fell because Voldemort had asked Snape to spy on Dumbledore (obviously not knowing he was a double agent by this time) 2) Snape became potions professor after Slughorn resigned, and Slughorn resigned shortly after Voldemort fell. (After Voldemort fell Slughorn felt relief as the belief that Voldemort had died made him sure he hadn't created any Horcruxes and thus he was not to blame, and in his relief he let slip subtle bits of info that tipped Dumbledore off that Slughorn may know something, and that's when Dumbledore started trying to question Slughorn, which led to Slughorn resigning). One piece of info says he was a teacher when Voldemort fell, and the other suggests he wasn't a teacher until just after. Either way it was about age 21, in 1981, when Snape started teaching. This means Harry could likely teach as early as 21 as well, but that's 3 or so years of nothing in the interim. Witches and Wizards have an average expected lifespan of around 137 years according to most sources, though some estimate longer, even if Harry had waited until his late 40's to start teaching it'd still be quite young. I just think that it makes sense that Harry would eventually become a teacher, but the idea of him spending 20 or so years as an Auror first doesn't mean he still couldn't become one, and that he'd be better for it with far more real-world experience. As much experience as he had with Voldemort, he had rather special circumstances that made it easier for him. Harry was definately good at defense against the dark arts, but if not for Voldemort wanting to be the one to kill Harry, harry would have died many times earlier in the series, but no one would try killing him in earnest because Voldemort would punish them for doing so. Meanwhile Voldemort basically couldn't harm Harry for a number of reasons. These circumstances don't translate well to fighting other dark Witches and Wizards, that kind of knowledge and experience he would learn through years as an Auror, putting him in good position to teach DaDA, even more than he was already.
I really dislike how the trio plan on tricking Griphook with the sword. He watched Harry bury Dobby by hand and it was implied that he saw Harry as an "unusual" wizard with greater respect for non-human magical persons. Instead of attempting deception, there should have been mutual trust that they could work together and thus start repairing Wizard/Goblin relations
According to his dialogue, he still writes reports to the Ministry. Most likely on Ranrock’s rebellion and Rookwood’s activities due to their activities being in close proximity to Hogwarts.
HP teaching Defense against the Dark Arts: "Alright, so first you hit them with a Expelliamous and then while they're still on the ground you rush in and put them in armlock like this! With enough pressure you can then break or dislocate their arm and they will no longer be able to use their wand. Also they will be so busy screaming they won't be able to get a spell off before you gag and bag 'em." "Uh, Professor Potter? Isn't this a bit...violent?" "Oh Timmothy, take it from me. This is far more merciful than a practitioner of the Dark Arts will ever show towards you. Trust me. By the time I'm done with you all, you will be able to defend yourself from someone who can and will try to torture you to death! And instead you will be able to go home to your friends and family intact! Now pair up! We're practicing holds until you can all do it perfectly!"
Such a thought-provoking mention there about the jinx on DADA professor: by making sure that the students weren't trained effectively in this subject would insure they weren't prepared to take on the Death Eaters is really smart. No way the wedding planner in Voldemort was playing the long game there. I imagine that Harry and Neville would be handing out "slices of gum" all over the place.
I agree on the elder wand: the movie decision made more sense than the books one I don't understand why being an auror and a teacher are mutually exclusive: he could be an auror for part of his life, then go and teach And I don't see why Neville should have killed Bellatrix himself. Every consequence of killing that the books talk about would have been upon him: does he really deserve that? Who marries who isn't that important to me but I don't understand why every single character HAS to marry. People in the real world can also make the choice of not doing that at all. About Umbridge: why should she have the easy way out? It's good that she can spend her life thinking about her awful behavior
My big problem with the movie decision about the elder wand is that he didn't fix his original wand like he does in the books - so when he snaps the elder wand in the movies he's just left with no wand!
Auror makes perfect sense for Harry to be honest. He has ALWAYS had a hero complex. He can't let anyone else do the job even if they could. Him being the one to catch bad guys is totally in line with everything we learn about him in the entire canon of the books.
It also would've been nice to have some systemic change in harry potter (Ending slavery, the two tiered legal system, the obvious racism with purebloods at the top etc), not just "the bad guy is dead so everything is fine.
As a teacher, it warms my heart that you respect my profession so highly. But Harry never wanted to be a teacher. He loved it when it was thrown on him, but also as a teacher I think students should follow their dreams. His was to be an auror. And he did it!
He was bound to name his first daughter after his mum, but if he'd had another daughter, with mum and Luna already covered, he should _definitely_ have called her Minerva.
I really wish he played quidditch professionally and then when he ages out/is done, teaches DADA. He deserves pure joy and fun just for himself playing quidditch after everything he went through as a kid
I feel like Harry being an auror makes sense,he beat the darkest wizard ever. I get him teaching DADA is satisfying as he symbolically overcomes Voldemort's curse but him using his skills to actually combat evil makes more sense,especially as he never technically finished school. Perhaps he could be both? A teacher who's an auror during summer and can be summoned for extremely important missions? Also,Hogwarts should teach dark arts in a safe way. Obviously, not unforgivable curses but weaker "dark" spells that could have use. The idea would be to demystify the dark arts and give them experience seeing dark magic so they can do better in DADA. Then again,I also believe being a sith should be accepted in Star Wars,just remove the rule of 2 and the whole killing each other thing. Lightning is cool and a force of nature can't be inheritly evil or good
Also I think he's better off not living at hogwarts. It was his first real home but a lot of tragic things happened to him there. And it's where he found his friends and ginny so I think it's more natural that he moved on from the school with the family he found there as his new home
Seconded. A lot of HP fans throw around the word "PTSD" a little too easily when talking about Harry's life and character. At the end of the story he's supposed to have overcome evil and lived up to his fame by his own merits. Also, I just can't see Harry settling down during his prime years. He's a hero, he needs to be on the field, making a difference.
Harry also didn't necessarily want to be the Chosen One. He dint want to keep fighting Voldy but he HAD to. Him becoming an auror and working for the government that Harry is shown in canon to not trust and have much faith in. Being the DADA teacher was definitely the move over being an auror
Lots of great points in this video! But… Harry should’ve been a professional Quidditch player. It’s been written since the very beginning how exceptional his talent is, how much joy he feels from flying and everything related to Quidditch, even Quidditch books and brooms servicing kit that Hermione gifts him. He says himself at the ending that “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime”, so the Auror path doesn’t seem right to me, completely agree about that. Harry totally deserves to have fun and enjoy life and live for himself. Charlie was great at Quidditch but loved dragons more. But for Harry there really isn’t anything he loves more than flying so this choice is the pretty obvious one for me :)
Gotta say...when wife and I were both reading the last book, and I got to the Molly/Belatrix part.....I stopped and looked up at her and said..."Molly is a total badass!!"
There's no reason Potter couldnt go on to teach DADA when he's older, and has a lifetimes experience from his career as an Auror.. why ya'll gotta try and shoehorn him directly into a cursed position, jeez?
at the death of dumbledore, his full body bind on harry ends when dumby passes(expressly stated as "it wouldnt have ended unless the caster passed" more or less) so the DADA curse wouldnt exist once Voldy was killed (my theory, not for sure fact)
@@itchybelle Well, anytime you don't have time to make new one, you can always just re-use Umbridge being splatted by the Ford Anglia - I don't think anyone would be upset by that 😁
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Barty Crouch Jr./faux Mad-Eye Moody was an awesome DADA professor, but he was just so freaking cruel. That Voldemort laugh at the end was perfect.
what if, and get this. Harry becomes an Auror for many years and then change career later into becoming the DADA professor. kinda like a certain someone from a certain legacy game. Oh and also on the topic of the wand snapping, the perfect thing would be to combine the book and movie events. in which Harry uses the elder wand to repair his og wand and then snaps the elder wand. Maybe also repair Hogwarts with the elder wand aswell prior to snapping it.
Harry is thinking of his kids. He's waiting for his kids to graduate from Hogwarts before becoming the DADA Professor. Neville as Headnaster & Harry as DADA Professor, but 30 years after the Battle of Hogwarts.
Honestly, Neville should've been the DADA teacher. Not only was he affected by the Dark Arts when Belatrix, Barty Crouch Jr., and two others tortured his family to insanity, he was also one of the Order of the Phoenix under Harry's term. Not only was he a bit of a blunder at times, but he was rather unlucky throughout his time in Hogwarts, but also was one of the students that protected the younger students. So, him being the DADA teacher would make sense. He supports his friends/ students, encourages them in their dificulties, and has a reason to stand up against the Dark Arts and pass on his experiences to the next generations.
I think the idea of Harry starting as an auroror because he knows nothing else he can do. Then, as he was pushed into Dumbledore's army by his friends, his friend mention how he can teach as Harry starts getting tired/disillusioned by his job. Then he has more defensive against the dark arts background to pull into his teaching
8:38 how about the “snake slayers”? One killed a basilisk and one killed horcrux Nagini. Or they could do something involving the sword of griffindor, since they used it to kill those snakes.
i think Nevil should have taught Defence Against The Dark Arts, he took over the DA, has proven himself in the battle of hogwarts including destroying a piece ofr Voldemorts soul And has the humility to know that it doesnt matter where you come from, its whats on the inside that counts
One of the things I actually think the movies did better was that they had the fiendfyre not actually destroy the diadem, and it took them stabbing it with a basilisk fang to kill it. Like… this whole time there was just a spell they could have cast to destroy horcruxes?? But “it’s too dangerous,” right, because they’ve never taken risks before. 🙄
Given how the fiendfyre behaved, I think they simply got lucky that escaping the Room of Requirement saved them. Mighta gotten killed if they just tried to cast it at the locket, you know?
@@endoftheline8061 sure, but Hermione clearly knew about it, so wasn’t it even at least worth having a conversation, even if they ultimately decide it’s not worth the risk? I know it’s silly but it bugs me. 😂
It was also weird that it had never even been mentioned before that moment, and it just so happened to be the one spell destructive enough to destroy the horcrux!
If we're going to follow the idea that Umbridge went to Azkaban, then Umbridge dies there. She'd have been killed by the muggleborns before people remembered to releass them. Without dementors, it took even longer for people to figure out.
I totally agree. Neville should have beeen the one to battle/kill Bellatrix. It would bring his story to a full circle, kind of like Harry's. Molly could have had her moment with any known/famous Death Eater and it would have had the same inpact. If it was one of the Carrow's she could have had an even bigger moment since they were basically torturing her daughter for months and holding all the students hostage to ensure their parents compliance. Or it could have been one of the Lestrange brothers or Dolohov, Rookwood?
I personally would have loved if Neville fought Bellatrix and Molly defeated Fenrir Greyback instead. Sort of a revenge for what happened to Bill. That would have been much more fitting in my opinion.
I would have loved to see Augusta Longbottom kill Bellatrix in my opinion. Still just as poetic while I’m a way also still keeping the scene of a mothers/grandmothers love.
Here's my version of the ending: Harry genuinely dies in the Forest, although he still has the afterlife conversation with Dumbledore (the love-crux thing just isn't a plot point in this version). The Death Eaters bring him to the school, Neville has his big moment and he is the one who ultimately becomes master of the Elder Wand by killing Nagini, therefore beating part of Voldemort's soul. The wand backfires, Neville is the hero of the Wizarding World, preferably grows up to marry Luna, and we learn that he and Harry were two halves of the same Chosen One. Any thoughts?
It would be interesting to have Harry die, but I'd have both Harry and Voldemort die and Neville is left to kill the snake and lead the charge against the Death Eaters.
I like to imagine Dumbledore’s hunch that Voldemort is still alive is solely based on the fact that he needs to find a new DADA teacher every year. And the year after Harry defeats Voldy, sheer luck makes it so they need a new teacher and everyone freaks out.
I personally like the idea of Harry being an Auror in his late teens and early twenties. Then once him and Ginny start having kids, they decide that hes too much of a target to risk having such a dangerous job, especially now that they have kids. So Harry eventually settles down and takes a job as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher!
Not that DADA professor doesn't come with a few risks (same as being a normal teacher, when kids where I am are known to be coming to school carrying knives). But yes, that makes perfect sense.
The only reason Harry wants to be an Auror is because the world building is so laughably bad that there's literally only 5 careers Wizards have ever been known to have.
@@NoName-mi8js My list was Teacher, Shop-keeper, "Government," Animal Caretaker, and Cop. And you could lump Cop and "Government" into one and probably lump Animal Caretaker and Teacher into one too.
While reading Halfblood Prince at work, a coworker told me Dumbledore dies. A dear friend of mine then lied to me, saying he didn't die, trying to undo the damage... only doing more damage when Dumbledore actually dies.
My head-cannon has always been that he acts as an auror during his peak years, then returns to become the DATDA teacher later in life once he decides he wants to slow down and stop saving the world a bit.
I'm not sure. Could you imagine how badly wrong that can all go? It could almost create a legion of wizards and witches with the inly intention of hunting dark wizards and witches.
In goblet, mad eye was really Barty jr. at the dance he looked through Harry’s robe and saw his special socks and commented on them. Does that mean a relatively young barty jr was using his eye to look under all the girls’ clothes while he was there? Why would he not?
3:32 I Love How Professor McGonagall Stood Up For Harry Like That Against Umbitch. She’s Always Been Like A Grandmother To Harry And The Fact She Actually Said She’ll Personally Make Sure She Trains Harry Every Day To Make Sure Harry Achieves His Dream To Become An Auror Is Enough For Professor McGonagall To Be On My List Of The Best People I’ve Ever Seen
I haven’t heard the word jabroni in years. And to hear it used to describe Hannah Abbot and Rolf Scamander is one of the funniest things I’ve experienced in my entire life.
I kinda like the idea of Harry going into being an Auror because he thinks that's what he should do, but once he gets into it for real it brings out some bad PTSD and he quits for being the DADA teacher
I think Harry should have repaired his own wand, snapped the Elder wand and then put it back in Dumbledore's grave. Also Harry does canonically does teach some lessons in the future, but I don't think I see him as a full DADA teacher because sure he saw Hogwarts as a home but he was eventually able to move on and make the world a better place. And sure Harry is a great teacher in the DA, there everybody wanted to learn and they were his classmates and there were little problems. So we never see Harry take on difficult students or students he only knows because he's their teacher and they are his students PS: He didn't even want to teach DADA in HBP, so he can't have been that interested in teaching generally
The only trouble I have with the Elder Wand being snapped is this question. Can the Deathly Hallows actually be destroyed? If the answer is "no," then Harry should've hidden it away someplace much safer than the place everyone knows about. He could've even put a fake there.
If the Elder Wand had really been made by Death, perhaps not; but the Peverell brothers created the Hallows, and anything a person makes, a person can destroy.
Eh, I think re-hiding it in Dumbledore's tomb is very safe. There is no reason for anyone to ever look there, it's not like he mentions this in front of a crowd. Kind of like the safest place for the sorcerer's stone would have been to put it back in gringotts after the attempted theft. It's the last place someone would think to search.
What else would you change about the ending?!
@@SuperCarlinBrothers will you do a kahoot quiz soon?
George doesn't marry Angelina, his dead twin's one-time date. That always bugged me.
I think the movie did one thing right that the books didn't: Harry snaps the Elder Wand.
I wish at least one of the marauders were alive, personally kind of mad Remus died.
@SuperCarlinBrothers what is up with that Al thumbnaiI? stop that please
My head canon is Neville eventually becomes Headmaster and the proceeds to nag and brow-beat Harry into retiring from Auroring and teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts.
I now have this vision in my head of Neville becoming the next Dumbledore. Not in power, but in presence.
I like to think harry became a professor after his kids leave cause he’s a cool dad
Headcanon accepted.
The Moody Hogwarts deserved
I have this head-canon as well! (Mostly because I misread the last chapter the first time 'round and believed when they mentioned 'Professor Longbottom,' it was because he had become headmaster.) And I like it much more than him just being the herbology professor.
Ford Anglia Potter, you were named after the bravest car I ever knew.
Why does this comment not have hundreds of likes? 😂
Ford Prefect Potter, you were named after a character in a completely different franchise.
Speaking of the Ford Anglia. I want to see the story that led to the vehicle becoming sentient and I suppose perpetually powered by magic. Not to mention its ejector seats and trunk contents attributes. And of course its adventures in the Dark Forest.
@@PhilBagelsthis
I was really hoping to see Mr. Weasley riding across the battlefield in his Feral Ford Anglia shouting something British like “Tallyhoe”
Having Umbridge, a pure-blood supremacist, be killed by a muggle car, is possibly the most poetic thing that SCB has come up with in a What If
Except Verhnam Dursley killing her with an electric drill maybe.
Umbridge is a half blood.
@@amymelsoner5775 Yes, but she still hates muggleborns and believes in pureblood supremacy (just like Voldemort)
@@amymelsoner5775 yeah, but she preaches pure-blood supremacy and claims to be a pure-blood.
@@amymelsoner5775 emphasis on *supremacist*
I’ve always headcannoned Luna as apprenticing and learning from Olivander to become a wand maker. She had spent several months imprisoned with him and had a strange ability to understand people beyond the surface, like identifying Harry under polyjuice potion. It seemed so perfect to me.
I had never considered this but it is now added to my list of personal head cannons immediately this is so lovely
"Former quidditch jock, high-school drop out, who becomes a cop," is not a sentence I expected to hear today. But I am all for it!
Harry is a natural teacher and should have followed that career path. (I'm re-listening to Order of the Phoenix) Harry began creating lesson plans in his head immediately after Hermione asks him about teaching them defense. That's exactly what natural teachers do: figure out what people need to know and design a path to get them there. What a missed opportunity.
my head canon is that after being head of the auror office, and maybe after his kids have grown older and left home, harry went back to Hogwarts in his later years as DADA teacher
Totally agree and the fact Voldemort cursed the position when he was rejected, I feel like it would be fitting for Harry to take the position after Voldemort dies and the curse is lifted
I feel he would have wanted to first clean up the remaining death eaters and other dark magic that would still be lingering around over teaching. So for him to still be an Auror at 36 is not really surprising to me. That is not to say that he can't jump to teaching later on in life either...
@@macattackkI that’s what I think too. I think Harry wanted to give his kids space to explore Hogwarts without him being their teacher.
@@macattackk Agreed. Some of the previous headmasters/headmistresses had held other jobs before becoming heads, so no reason Harry couldn't first be an Auror then go on to teach defense and even become headmaster, in his later years.
I always thought Harry should’ve played Quidditch professionally. He was clearly good enough at it, and he always describes it as his favorite thing to do in the world. Plus, after a childhood where he had to grow up so fast, it would be nice for him to get to just have some fun
Yes!! The one thing he loves so much and was so good at especially after so much trauma/sacrificing so much of himself for others. He should have played quidditch and then when he ages out of the teach DADA!
@@everlastingzee That's perfect!
@@everlastingzeeand he could also be the flying teacher too!!
I feel like being the defense teacher would have given Harry's life more meaning after the fact. Hogwarts being the place he considered home, and being able to be there teaching what he learned the hard way seems like the perfect ending.
And he can now be in the teachers' stands watching the new generation play quidditch.
@@KiaStout i agree that eventually he would want more, and I do love the idea of him teaching DADA eventually, but if I was 17, and had just saved the world after almost dying every year for 7 years, I would want some time to just have fun.
In my headcanon, Harry is just waiting.
Getting real experience fighting more typical dark wizards (most dark wizards are not like Voldemort).
Waiting for his kids to graduate so there’s no chance of “dad you’re embarrassing me in front of my friends (who are also your students)”
And also no chance of being accused of favoritism for his kids in his classroom.
Once little Lily Luna Potter graduates from Hogwarts, Harry will retire from being an Auror in order to become the DADA teacher at Hogwarts.
That’s my headcanon.
I throw my wizards hat in for this! Biding his time, gaining his scars, putting lesson plans into practice. He's Harry Fricken Potter! 🎶
That’s perfect. Now I’m considering that canon.
Why can't Harry be an Auror and then a professor? Look, that way you would have the best of both worlds. That's what the plan was supposed to be with Moody, a former Auror. Harry could be an Auror until the age of 65 or so. And this way you would have a much more experienced and wise Harry who then decides to lead a quieter life as a teacher until he retires
And considering that wizards have a life expectancy of 150 he could've been one for longer than he was an auror
I was going to write this, but no need! I agree, if that wasn't painfully obvious. LOL.
Also 100% agree with this statement. We get a single snapshot of his life 19 years later, meaning he is only 36 years old and don't really know what happens after that. Plus I feel he would have been fully committed to wanting to "clean-up" the remaining death eaters over teaching first, which I imagine would have taken several years.
Idk I don't like the idea of him not even doing anything about the system that caused there to be ppl like Voldemort who existed for so long
My headcanon is he teach DADA after he's 50
Although Dracos redemption is the biggest change needed, I do like the idea of Harry being DADA teacher and putting the Elder Wand back to Dumbledore, basically meaning the first kid he ever teaches to disarm him basically becomes master of the wand, and he then has the class routinely practice it, and with other years so the true owner is lost forever
Draco is a nasty bully and a blood supremacist. His redemption is raising his son to be better.
Personally I like the movie ending because the best way to ensure that the wand doesn't end up in the wrong hand is to make sure it is destroyed forever, something I think Dumbledore should have done once he became the true master of the wand...just saying
About why Harry didn’t name one of his kids after Lupin, I saw a headcanon on Instagram that gives a good explanation. Here’s what it said…
‘A lot of people wondered why Harry and Ginny hadn’t named one of their children after Remus. People thought that maybe Harry didn’t like Remus, but that was beyond opposite. The truth was he already felt like he had a son named after Remus. Teddy Remus Lupin. He felt that Teddy was a son to him so why name a second child after Remus.’
Hope that explains why for anyone who was wondering.
Albus Dobby Potter would have been wild haha
If Harry was naming his kids after people important to him, he should've named his daughter Lily Hedwig Potter and his sons Dobby Dobby Potter and Dobby Dobby Potter
@@EchoHaneul found dobby's burner account
yeah you name kids after dogs and a mold clump in your fridge 😂
It would have been funny if Snape survived and Harry would have been permanently the DADA because he failed the potion requirement of the Auror
Harry being an Auror to get some real-world experience before becoming a professor is a worthwhile idea. There's teaching how to cast a spell, there's teaching how to duel, and there's teaching how to maintain your composure and remember your magic fundamentals while in a chaotic fight for your life. Harry can do the first two, but I think he'd want some professional experience before trying the third. His handful of battles with the Death Eaters and his experiences with Voldemort are all fine and good, but the context is a bit narrow.
Love the little animated sequence where Umbridge gets hit by the Ford Anglia.
thank you thank you
@@itchybelle but the disgusting thumbnaiI which didnt even look like umbridge was removed thank goodness
2 options
1) Dementors can't feed off of Umbridge
2) Umbridge feeds off of Dementors
3. Umbridge's patronus is a dementor
I heard one time a dementor kissed her. And. It. DIED!
I read a fanfic having Harry being the DADA professor, and my favorite part was how normal Harry becomes. He's no longer the famous "Chosen One", but normal Professor Potter.
it would be really interesting from a story pov if like he is still kind of famous, so like new first years come in with a head full of Professor Potter fame stories and are super intimidated or infatuated, but but all the higher years just see him as normal ordinary Prof Potter and like to laugh as the new students trip over their own about it.
The final line also directly runs contrary to Harry becoming an Auror: "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." Not really an outlook that should lead to that.
1:31 Rubeus Remus Potter would be way better. Not naming your kid after the first person that truly cared about in the magical world should be a crime
Cedric Remus if he wanted both to be dead people.
Isn't Hagrid still alive though?
@@tommarsdon5644 and? He's still one of the best people Harry ever met
@@tommarsdon5644 Naming your kid after someone doesn't require that person to be dead first. Hagrid would probably be overwhelmed with happiness when Harry tells him.
I've had an idea in my head for years that Harry gives his (obviously AU) daughter the name Ruby, to Hagrid's delight. I've seen it a couple of times in fanfiction, but that's it.
I would include a scene where McGonagall does offer him the position but he declines claiming lack of experience but says he will be open to it in the future
I love this!
I wanted Harry to free Kreacher in the end. I mean I didn't think about it until he mentioned the sandwich, and then it occurred to me that Kreacher is no longer a liability to give the Death Eaters any information.
He would die of shock and shame
It's canon that house elves don't want to be freed
@@nelsonsamuelsanchez it's canon that the Hogwarts ones and Winky didn't, it's also canon that Dobby liked being freed, so I don't really find that a finalizing point. Kreacher became content with Harry eventually, I still don't think they had any reason to continue having anything to do with each other afterwards, literally nothing in their lives aligned with each other.
That book came out on my first wedding anniversary. My wife read it. I started reading from book one. We both spent the day in central park reading.
It's the paper anniversary.
The mustache looks like the pringles one 😭
It made me think of the Mario Bros.
@@matthewpatrick7263 I mean thats appropriate considering where they got their name from.
@@jameslars7391really? huh I never put that together neat
It kinda does actually
Makes him look like a perve…
“Stranger danger” ⚠️ ‼️ ⛔️
Lol😂
Harry after the final battle: "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." Harry sometime between the final battle and the epilogue: "I'm going to be an Auror. I'm sure catching dark wizards won't be too much trouble."
I would accept Umbridge getting splattered if the Fords radio was blasting Mississippi Queen at full blast through the radio
DECEASED MORE THAN UMBRIDGE
Car should blast Freebird
...just a mild correction Mike. Can we consider Molly Hatchet's, Flirtin' With Disaster? OR, OR, OR.... ZZ Top, Arrested For Driving While Blind?
I suppose in a multi-verse we can have 'em all
I thoroughly disagree on your theory on who Neville and Luna should have ended up with (each other) vs who they did end up with (Hannah Abbot and Rolf Scamander respectivel).
I think it feels more realistic that some of them ended up with somebody we (the readers) didn't really know. Hogwarts wasn't the end of their lives and things happened to them after they left. Additionally, it's presumptuous of us to assume that whatever we knew about the characters is all there was to them. Hannah and Neville might have been good friends throughout the series and we didn't know because we only saw either of them through their importance to Harry's story. And Rolf and Luna make perfect sense given they both are in the same career field as adults.
Si we all agree that the movie decision over the elder wand should have even canon? Good
I think Harry should have repaired his phenix wand before breaking the elder wand in the movies. Apart from this I agree with the movie decision.
I definitely agree. Leaving the Elder Wand intact is just playing with fire. The choice made in the movie was the correct one.
Nah we all know it should’ve ended with Snape having drank some anti venom, shooting Voldemort in the head and using the time turner to go back and kill Tom.
Darn it, I wanted to say this.
Imagine Snape pulling up to Voldemort with a Glock 😂😭😂😭
If we take just what we see in PoA and forget that The Cursed Child exists, Snape would have to flip the time turner something like 600.000 times to get back to when Tom Riddle was a child, and then take the slow path back to the present. It'd be like Steve Rogers disappearing at the end of Avengers: Endgame and then being seen on the bench as an old man.
Magic....duh! Honey badger takes what it wants. IYKYK
@@YesThatColin?
“What happened to Umbridge” so Universal Orlando is putting in a new ride that takes care of this lol, look up their announcement of the new wizarding world section of epic universe.
Oooh i will def do that!
Came here to say this
umbridge went into Azkaban for the rest of her life but it was a very unsatisfying fate because kingsley (the new Minister) got rid of all dementors so her fate Was no where near as bad as the innocent muggleborns she imprisoned
The ride should have a gang of Centaurs (who can read the stars, duh) heaving a distressed, disheveled and screaming Umbridge into the path of the oncoming Ford Anglia (which the park goers are riding in) and on impact she...okay so its a hologram, bursts into a ginormous gush of water, ala Splash Mountain, subsequently soaking all the riders.
This concept would also be an economy booster giving trauma therapists a client base for life.
Honestly, some of these things would be too…cliche’
Neville killing Bellatrix would be too expected
Or Draco getting some definite redemption
Or if all the good guys survived
Or if all the characters ended up with main characters
That’s not realistic
It’s the picture perfect conclusions people expect
It depends on the kind of reader you are. For me I prefer thematics and narratively satisfying endings. Because fitting to me is the better trade off to suprised.
@@Sagefox fair enough lol
I can’t argue with someone’s personal preferences
But I like realistic points
Yea those I think we're a bit cliche but I feel like a lot of Harry Potter is setting up for things that have no payoff.
Like the hat talking about division between houses, then changing like nothing about that? Or at least not confirming anything and having to leave it up to viewers
Or the ministry being a messed up system being so clearly established then again just nothing coming off of that
@@m4rcyonstation93 the Ministry being corrupt plays a big part in OotP lol
It’s the reason Voldemort is able to build up his whole army without any resistance
@@GrandmasterFive yes and its literally never solved. thats my point. they just continue on with life. its so annoying
I’m going to argue about the Albus Severus part. Snape gave his life to do whatever it took to defeat Voldemort. He was basically a slave to that goal. And it was also a part of atoning for Harry’s mother’s death. That makes him very significant to Harry, who really saw all that Snape gave.
I thought that but when I read the books I saw that he was so much worse and a BIG BULLY so I don't know why anyone else like lupin or dobby could have been it
Regarding on why Harry didn’t name one of his kids after Remus Lupin, I think I read on Instagram that Harry was like a father figure to Remus’s son Teddy and I think Teddy was named after his father (in some way) so I guess there wouldn’t have been need for Harry to have a second child named after Lupin if there was already one.
(I know the explanation went something like this, but if I was wrong with how I explained it, please correct me)
We all know Harry wasnt thinking of Sandwiches... he was thinking of a baked potato
"Albus Rubeus Brian Hedwig Dobby Potter, you come here right now!!"
Replayed this part about 100 times, cracking up the entire time. Of all SCB Potter content I've watched, I mean, it's been all clever and funny, but this took the cake for me.
To be fair, When Voldemort applied for DaDA he was told he was too young and to come back in a few years. Harry likely wouldn't have been able to become a professor right away. Also there's still the possibility he could become the DaDA professor later on, after having been an Auror, which if anything would likely make him an even better teacher with even more experience. I can see Harry not staying an Auror forever and eventually becoming a professor still.
Wasn't Snape hired as a really young man though.
@@KiaStout Snape was 21 years old when hired, yes, but that's still not right out of school (in the wizarding world that's around age 17, possibly 18 depending on birthday. Snape had recently entered into Dumbledore's service as a spy, and Horace Slughorn had recently quit the post about 2 months into school term, so Dumbledore was likely looking to fill rather quickly. Unfortunately we have a few bits of conflicting information in canon surrounding these events:
1) Snape tells Bellatrix he was at Hogwarts when Voldemort fell because Voldemort had asked Snape to spy on Dumbledore (obviously not knowing he was a double agent by this time)
2) Snape became potions professor after Slughorn resigned, and Slughorn resigned shortly after Voldemort fell. (After Voldemort fell Slughorn felt relief as the belief that Voldemort had died made him sure he hadn't created any Horcruxes and thus he was not to blame, and in his relief he let slip subtle bits of info that tipped Dumbledore off that Slughorn may know something, and that's when Dumbledore started trying to question Slughorn, which led to Slughorn resigning).
One piece of info says he was a teacher when Voldemort fell, and the other suggests he wasn't a teacher until just after.
Either way it was about age 21, in 1981, when Snape started teaching. This means Harry could likely teach as early as 21 as well, but that's 3 or so years of nothing in the interim. Witches and Wizards have an average expected lifespan of around 137 years according to most sources, though some estimate longer, even if Harry had waited until his late 40's to start teaching it'd still be quite young. I just think that it makes sense that Harry would eventually become a teacher, but the idea of him spending 20 or so years as an Auror first doesn't mean he still couldn't become one, and that he'd be better for it with far more real-world experience. As much experience as he had with Voldemort, he had rather special circumstances that made it easier for him. Harry was definately good at defense against the dark arts, but if not for Voldemort wanting to be the one to kill Harry, harry would have died many times earlier in the series, but no one would try killing him in earnest because Voldemort would punish them for doing so. Meanwhile Voldemort basically couldn't harm Harry for a number of reasons. These circumstances don't translate well to fighting other dark Witches and Wizards, that kind of knowledge and experience he would learn through years as an Auror, putting him in good position to teach DaDA, even more than he was already.
I really dislike how the trio plan on tricking Griphook with the sword. He watched Harry bury Dobby by hand and it was implied that he saw Harry as an "unusual" wizard with greater respect for non-human magical persons.
Instead of attempting deception, there should have been mutual trust that they could work together and thus start repairing Wizard/Goblin relations
Why couldn’t Harry be both Auror and Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Professor Sharp in Hogwarts Legacy is both Potions Master and Auror.
I'm pretty sure Professor Sharp is no longer an active auror
Sharp is an ex auror, i think
According to his dialogue, he still writes reports to the Ministry. Most likely on Ranrock’s rebellion and Rookwood’s activities due to their activities being in close proximity to Hogwarts.
and Mad Eye Moody
@Tinyme2468 Moody is explicitly a retired Auror until after his time at Hogwarts where he comes out of retirement.
HP teaching Defense against the Dark Arts:
"Alright, so first you hit them with a Expelliamous and then while they're still on the ground you rush in and put them in armlock like this! With enough pressure you can then break or dislocate their arm and they will no longer be able to use their wand. Also they will be so busy screaming they won't be able to get a spell off before you gag and bag 'em."
"Uh, Professor Potter? Isn't this a bit...violent?"
"Oh Timmothy, take it from me. This is far more merciful than a practitioner of the Dark Arts will ever show towards you. Trust me. By the time I'm done with you all, you will be able to defend yourself from someone who can and will try to torture you to death! And instead you will be able to go home to your friends and family intact! Now pair up! We're practicing holds until you can all do it perfectly!"
NAHHHH HARRY WHAT HAPPENED
This is the first time I noticed that Jay's mustache appears in the beginning animation! 🤣
Aaaaahhh I’ve been wondering if they would add it and I totally missed it! Thanks for pointing it out!
It’s the first time I ever added it :)
@@itchybelle Are you their editor?
@@Itz_Mont one of them!
@@itchybelle I love watching Super Carlin brothers so much! I've been watching for years and years, it sounds amazing to work for them!
Sorting Hat Fawkes Hedwig, get in this house.
UNDERRATED
The ending for Umbridge here is good, but I prefer her being surrounded by a mob of angry centaurs. Feels more vindictive
Four little letters: PTSD.
"HARRY! YOU OUGHT TO CONSIDER BECOMING AN AUROR!" Moody said calmly.
😂that's what i thought of too
Such a thought-provoking mention there about the jinx on DADA professor: by making sure that the students weren't trained effectively in this subject would insure they weren't prepared to take on the Death Eaters is really smart. No way the wedding planner in Voldemort was playing the long game there. I imagine that Harry and Neville would be handing out "slices of gum" all over the place.
I agree on the elder wand: the movie decision made more sense than the books one
I don't understand why being an auror and a teacher are mutually exclusive: he could be an auror for part of his life, then go and teach
And I don't see why Neville should have killed Bellatrix himself. Every consequence of killing that the books talk about would have been upon him: does he really deserve that?
Who marries who isn't that important to me but I don't understand why every single character HAS to marry. People in the real world can also make the choice of not doing that at all.
About Umbridge: why should she have the easy way out? It's good that she can spend her life thinking about her awful behavior
My big problem with the movie decision about the elder wand is that he didn't fix his original wand like he does in the books - so when he snaps the elder wand in the movies he's just left with no wand!
Auror makes perfect sense for Harry to be honest. He has ALWAYS had a hero complex. He can't let anyone else do the job even if they could. Him being the one to catch bad guys is totally in line with everything we learn about him in the entire canon of the books.
becoming an auror and getting more field experience then eventually retiring to become a teacher would be a great career path for harry
i come back to this page all the time like over years and years and i love that yall still do HP content
It also would've been nice to have some systemic change in harry potter (Ending slavery, the two tiered legal system, the obvious racism with purebloods at the top etc), not just "the bad guy is dead so everything is fine.
As a teacher, it warms my heart that you respect my profession so highly. But Harry never wanted to be a teacher. He loved it when it was thrown on him, but also as a teacher I think students should follow their dreams. His was to be an auror. And he did it!
Lol, Umbridge getting splattered by the Ford Anglia. I can't stop giggling.
The only thing I wish for the end of deathly hallows 2 is for Harry to repair his wand before snapping through elder wand
Harry should have totally named a kid Rubeus or Minerva. Way better than Severus
He was bound to name his first daughter after his mum, but if he'd had another daughter, with mum and Luna already covered, he should _definitely_ have called her Minerva.
Ruby Minerva Potter.
@@chrisconcannon6490 I love this one the most.
I really wish he played quidditch professionally and then when he ages out/is done, teaches DADA. He deserves pure joy and fun just for himself playing quidditch after everything he went through as a kid
I feel like Harry being an auror makes sense,he beat the darkest wizard ever. I get him teaching DADA is satisfying as he symbolically overcomes Voldemort's curse but him using his skills to actually combat evil makes more sense,especially as he never technically finished school. Perhaps he could be both? A teacher who's an auror during summer and can be summoned for extremely important missions?
Also,Hogwarts should teach dark arts in a safe way. Obviously, not unforgivable curses but weaker "dark" spells that could have use. The idea would be to demystify the dark arts and give them experience seeing dark magic so they can do better in DADA. Then again,I also believe being a sith should be accepted in Star Wars,just remove the rule of 2 and the whole killing each other thing. Lightning is cool and a force of nature can't be inheritly evil or good
Also I think he's better off not living at hogwarts. It was his first real home but a lot of tragic things happened to him there. And it's where he found his friends and ginny so I think it's more natural that he moved on from the school with the family he found there as his new home
@@sir_theodore23 that's very true. Hogwarts was his home as a kid. When kids grow up,they leave home
Seconded.
A lot of HP fans throw around the word "PTSD" a little too easily when talking about Harry's life and character.
At the end of the story he's supposed to have overcome evil and lived up to his fame by his own merits.
Also, I just can't see Harry settling down during his prime years. He's a hero, he needs to be on the field, making a difference.
Harry also didn't necessarily want to be the Chosen One. He dint want to keep fighting Voldy but he HAD to. Him becoming an auror and working for the government that Harry is shown in canon to not trust and have much faith in. Being the DADA teacher was definitely the move over being an auror
@@redscorner4324 to be fair, Hermione became the Minister and purged a lot of the corruption.
Lots of great points in this video! But… Harry should’ve been a professional Quidditch player. It’s been written since the very beginning how exceptional his talent is, how much joy he feels from flying and everything related to Quidditch, even Quidditch books and brooms servicing kit that Hermione gifts him. He says himself at the ending that “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime”, so the Auror path doesn’t seem right to me, completely agree about that. Harry totally deserves to have fun and enjoy life and live for himself. Charlie was great at Quidditch but loved dragons more. But for Harry there really isn’t anything he loves more than flying so this choice is the pretty obvious one for me :)
Gotta say...when wife and I were both reading the last book, and I got to the Molly/Belatrix part.....I stopped and looked up at her and said..."Molly is a total badass!!"
It’s pretttttyyy obvious that Harry’s career path should’ve been as the successor to Florean Fortescue & taken over the ice cream parlor 😄
There's no reason Potter couldnt go on to teach DADA when he's older, and has a lifetimes experience from his career as an Auror.. why ya'll gotta try and shoehorn him directly into a cursed position, jeez?
at the death of dumbledore, his full body bind on harry ends when dumby passes(expressly stated as "it wouldnt have ended unless the caster passed" more or less) so the DADA curse wouldnt exist once Voldy was killed (my theory, not for sure fact)
The curse was confirmed to have been broken when Voldy died.
I think the DADA position curse died with Voldemort (I'm not sure if that's stated fully in canon but this makes the most sense to me)
Molly gets her line against Bellatrix, but when she is stunned, Neville comes from behined and slices her in half with the sword of griffondor.
I love the tiny cartoon sequence. You should have more of them.
I love making them! We don’t always have time for every video but we want to make more in the future 🫶🏻
@@itchybelle Well, anytime you don't have time to make new one, you can always just re-use Umbridge being splatted by the Ford Anglia - I don't think anyone would be upset by that 😁
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Barty Crouch Jr./faux Mad-Eye Moody was an awesome DADA professor, but he was just so freaking cruel.
That Voldemort laugh at the end was perfect.
what if, and get this. Harry becomes an Auror for many years and then change career later into becoming the DADA professor. kinda like a certain someone from a certain legacy game. Oh and also on the topic of the wand snapping, the perfect thing would be to combine the book and movie events. in which Harry uses the elder wand to repair his og wand and then snaps the elder wand. Maybe also repair Hogwarts with the elder wand aswell prior to snapping it.
Harry is thinking of his kids. He's waiting for his kids to graduate from Hogwarts before becoming the DADA Professor. Neville as Headnaster & Harry as DADA Professor, but 30 years after the Battle of Hogwarts.
Honestly, Neville should've been the DADA teacher. Not only was he affected by the Dark Arts when Belatrix, Barty Crouch Jr., and two others tortured his family to insanity, he was also one of the Order of the Phoenix under Harry's term. Not only was he a bit of a blunder at times, but he was rather unlucky throughout his time in Hogwarts, but also was one of the students that protected the younger students.
So, him being the DADA teacher would make sense. He supports his friends/ students, encourages them in their dificulties, and has a reason to stand up against the Dark Arts and pass on his experiences to the next generations.
I think the idea of Harry starting as an auroror because he knows nothing else he can do. Then, as he was pushed into Dumbledore's army by his friends, his friend mention how he can teach as Harry starts getting tired/disillusioned by his job. Then he has more defensive against the dark arts background to pull into his teaching
Maybe he couldn't take the DADA job because the curse worked on him in his 5 year?
8:38 how about the “snake slayers”? One killed a basilisk and one killed horcrux Nagini. Or they could do something involving the sword of griffindor, since they used it to kill those snakes.
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i think Nevil should have taught Defence Against The Dark Arts, he took over the DA, has proven himself in the battle of hogwarts including destroying a piece ofr Voldemorts soul And has the humility to know that it doesnt matter where you come from, its whats on the inside that counts
One of the things I actually think the movies did better was that they had the fiendfyre not actually destroy the diadem, and it took them stabbing it with a basilisk fang to kill it. Like… this whole time there was just a spell they could have cast to destroy horcruxes?? But “it’s too dangerous,” right, because they’ve never taken risks before. 🙄
Given how the fiendfyre behaved, I think they simply got lucky that escaping the Room of Requirement saved them. Mighta gotten killed if they just tried to cast it at the locket, you know?
@@endoftheline8061 sure, but Hermione clearly knew about it, so wasn’t it even at least worth having a conversation, even if they ultimately decide it’s not worth the risk? I know it’s silly but it bugs me. 😂
A plot hole you could drive a double decker bus through. Unfortunately it's far from the only one. I wonder where JKR's beta readers and editors were?
It was also weird that it had never even been mentioned before that moment, and it just so happened to be the one spell destructive enough to destroy the horcrux!
If we're going to follow the idea that Umbridge went to Azkaban, then Umbridge dies there. She'd have been killed by the muggleborns before people remembered to releass them. Without dementors, it took even longer for people to figure out.
I totally agree. Neville should have beeen the one to battle/kill Bellatrix. It would bring his story to a full circle, kind of like Harry's. Molly could have had her moment with any known/famous Death Eater and it would have had the same inpact. If it was one of the Carrow's she could have had an even bigger moment since they were basically torturing her daughter for months and holding all the students hostage to ensure their parents compliance. Or it could have been one of the Lestrange brothers or Dolohov, Rookwood?
I personally would have loved if Neville fought Bellatrix and Molly defeated Fenrir Greyback instead. Sort of a revenge for what happened to Bill. That would have been much more fitting in my opinion.
I would have loved to see Augusta Longbottom kill Bellatrix in my opinion. Still just as poetic while I’m a way also still keeping the scene of a mothers/grandmothers love.
I wrote a fanfiction set after the cursed child, where Harry takes up a job as DADA professor in Albus' 7th year
I just noticed j has has a mustache in the intro
My personal head canon (regarding Harry's carreer) was always that he waits until his kids finish school to become the DADA teacher
Here's my version of the ending:
Harry genuinely dies in the Forest, although he still has the afterlife conversation with Dumbledore (the love-crux thing just isn't a plot point in this version). The Death Eaters bring him to the school, Neville has his big moment and he is the one who ultimately becomes master of the Elder Wand by killing Nagini, therefore beating part of Voldemort's soul. The wand backfires, Neville is the hero of the Wizarding World, preferably grows up to marry Luna, and we learn that he and Harry were two halves of the same Chosen One. Any thoughts?
I'm seeing Frozen II parallels if Elsa had stayed dead lol
I like it but I’d like if that was very subtly foreshadowed in Half Blood Prince(Harry and Neville having an equal role contributing Voldemort’s end)
It would be interesting to have Harry die, but I'd have both Harry and Voldemort die and Neville is left to kill the snake and lead the charge against the Death Eaters.
If that happened then we would be commenting what if Harry was the one who defeated Tommy
I like to imagine Dumbledore’s hunch that Voldemort is still alive is solely based on the fact that he needs to find a new DADA teacher every year. And the year after Harry defeats Voldy, sheer luck makes it so they need a new teacher and everyone freaks out.
"What's worse than Slug Club?"
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I personally like the idea of Harry being an Auror in his late teens and early twenties. Then once him and Ginny start having kids, they decide that hes too much of a target to risk having such a dangerous job, especially now that they have kids. So Harry eventually settles down and takes a job as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher!
Not that DADA professor doesn't come with a few risks (same as being a normal teacher, when kids where I am are known to be coming to school carrying knives). But yes, that makes perfect sense.
The only reason Harry wants to be an Auror is because the world building is so laughably bad that there's literally only 5 careers Wizards have ever been known to have.
Auror, professor, shopkeeper, ministry worker. What's the fifth?
@@NoName-mi8js My list was Teacher, Shop-keeper, "Government," Animal Caretaker, and Cop.
And you could lump Cop and "Government" into one and probably lump Animal Caretaker and Teacher into one too.
when J says "and what about Umbridge?" right after ranting about names I was 100% sure he was going to suggest Harry names his kid that.
Kahoot quiz?
Harry teaching the Defense against the dark arts would be great because it's another link between him and Snape.
Amazing videos as ALWAYS
While reading Halfblood Prince at work, a coworker told me Dumbledore dies. A dear friend of mine then lied to me, saying he didn't die, trying to undo the damage... only doing more damage when Dumbledore actually dies.
I think Luna should have ended up with Ginny.
Only deviants think that!!
The fact Minerva did not get a mention in their kids names is criminal
Yeah. Harry in the positon could have been such a great booksend.
It just makes sense
@@SuperCarlinBrothers Yep
My head-cannon has always been that he acts as an auror during his peak years, then returns to become the DATDA teacher later in life once he decides he wants to slow down and stop saving the world a bit.
Harry wakes up under the stairs, he realises it was all a dream.
But then his parents tell him to get his Hogwarts letter
If it was "all a dream", he would wake up at home, with his parents.
I'm not sure. Could you imagine how badly wrong that can all go? It could almost create a legion of wizards and witches with the inly intention of hunting dark wizards and witches.
Nice tache
Thank you!
10:23 Neville: *punches her in the face* "THAT'S FROM MY PARENTS!"
In goblet, mad eye was really Barty jr. at the dance he looked through Harry’s robe and saw his special socks and commented on them. Does that mean a relatively young barty jr was using his eye to look under all the girls’ clothes while he was there? Why would he not?
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A disturbing possibility. And let's not forget, Barry Crouch Jr was nuts.
3:32 I Love How Professor McGonagall Stood Up For Harry Like That Against Umbitch. She’s Always Been Like A Grandmother To Harry And The Fact She Actually Said She’ll Personally Make Sure She Trains Harry Every Day To Make Sure Harry Achieves His Dream To Become An Auror Is Enough For Professor McGonagall To Be On My List Of The Best People I’ve Ever Seen
I haven’t heard the word jabroni in years. And to hear it used to describe Hannah Abbot and Rolf Scamander is one of the funniest things I’ve experienced in my entire life.
I kinda like the idea of Harry going into being an Auror because he thinks that's what he should do, but once he gets into it for real it brings out some bad PTSD and he quits for being the DADA teacher
I think Harry should have repaired his own wand, snapped the Elder wand and then put it back in Dumbledore's grave. Also Harry does canonically does teach some lessons in the future, but I don't think I see him as a full DADA teacher because sure he saw Hogwarts as a home but he was eventually able to move on and make the world a better place. And sure Harry is a great teacher in the DA, there everybody wanted to learn and they were his classmates and there were little problems. So we never see Harry take on difficult students or students he only knows because he's their teacher and they are his students
PS: He didn't even want to teach DADA in HBP, so he can't have been that interested in teaching generally
The only trouble I have with the Elder Wand being snapped is this question. Can the Deathly Hallows actually be destroyed? If the answer is "no," then Harry should've hidden it away someplace much safer than the place everyone knows about. He could've even put a fake there.
If the Elder Wand had really been made by Death, perhaps not; but the Peverell brothers created the Hallows, and anything a person makes, a person can destroy.
@@cherryb893 In the books, it doesn't say whether Death actually did or didn't create them.
Eh, I think re-hiding it in Dumbledore's tomb is very safe. There is no reason for anyone to ever look there, it's not like he mentions this in front of a crowd.
Kind of like the safest place for the sorcerer's stone would have been to put it back in gringotts after the attempted theft. It's the last place someone would think to search.