Where Are They Now? Character Game

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 187326


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> Karen responds:
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> If he had survived I really don't think Snape would have wanted to be Headmaster at Hogwarts for the following reasons:
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> I don't see teaching as his 'chosen' career it was forced on him by both his 'masters' so was a function of his cover personality, not I feel his true one. 

Potioncat:
I agree that  he didn't want to teach potions. I sort of wonder if he didn't want to teach DADA even as a kid. It sort of channels his attraction to the Dark Arts in a positive direction, and teaching it allows him to demonstrate his ability.

So I can imagine (if Snape had survived) some recovery time spent at Spinner's End, some research opportunities, with perhaps a request from Shacklebolt from time to time. Then a few years later, a call from Headmistress McGonagall to be the new, long term DADA master.

That leads me to Neville. Do you suppose the adult Neville still has scars from his 7th year at school? Perhaps first years find him a little frightening at first, until they see his pleasant personality. So he is the cool professor, all scarred from his heroics in the last war, who lives over the Three Broomsticks (or maybe the Leaky Cauldron.) I imagine he's the type to sponsor a club or two and to be available to help students.