do you think teaching is the career remus would have picked even if he didn't have such limited options? like if he could have had any job he wanted, do you think he'd choose that or something else?
I actually think teaching came quite naturally to Remus, and I get the impression that he enjoyed it very much. I donât think itâs outside the realm of possibility for him to want to teach if he werenât a werewolf, or if the Umbridge-era laws hadnât gone into effect. But itâs difficult to say, too, because if Remus isnât a werewolf it changes a huge part of why he developed the way he did. Whole swaths of his personality may change in a universe where he was never bitten.
So what kind of jobs may Remus have been drawn to? Certainly his natural talent with DADA gives him ample career choices, but Remus seems to have a certain fondness for creatures as is implied in his classes, and a remarkable talent with dueling and wandless magic. Remus could have found work as an Auror, particularly after fighting Voldemort. Or, he could have begun work in the Ministry, specializing as his father did (except Lyall was a non-corporeal entity sort of expert). But I donât think something as hot-shot a a Cursebreaker would have appealed to him, either. On the flipside, he would have avoided anything to do with potions I think. He says heâs terrible at potions. But he could sell them, and as a people person Remus is able to do reasonably well behind a counter.
To be honest, I think Remus enjoys a bit of structure in what he does, though. Retail and co-workers and paperwork will not appeal to him forever, but neither will a high-strung job, like the auror thing. Remus is bound to be somewhere in the middle, perhaps working with dark creatures and their removal or in the education of people about them. He really has a knack for his subject, and having spent 12 years out of the limelight and to still be very highly qualified to teach all grades at Hogwarts really says something about the passion with which Remus studied all those years, because we donât know what he was doing to say that it was a job, etc. His tests and exams are very hands on, and Remus is one of those people who prefer hands on, to see the results of what they do in order to gain satisfaction. I definitely donât think heâs the magical Orkin man (exterminator) or anything, but he could have liked a job where heâs tasked with handling the dark creatures or removing them from problem areas. Actually this is one of the areas I have the most blanks in for him, because thereâs so little information about wizarding jobs. So I hope you donât mind if I actually open this for discussion? Iâm curious about other peopleâs ideas, too.
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