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SUPER IMPORTANT QUESTION:

Has anyone done a “Lily and James Live” AU where Lily takes over as Potions Master after Slughorn retires instead of Snape?

Professor Potter, patient and kind with all students and especially helpful to overwhelmed muggleborns.

Professor Potter, whose dorky husband randomly pops up in the school in odd places with their infant son, though never seems to come in from the front door.

Professor Potter, whose little boy sometimes helps her add potions ingredients to her cauldron when she’s giving a demonstration during class.

Professor Potter, who will pay responsible prefects a few galleons to watch Harry for a few hours while her dorky husband insists on taking her out to dinner.

Professor Potter, the subject of many adolescent crushes.

Professor Potter, who has tea with Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout regularly, often interrupted by her dorky husband who passes up no opportunity to drop in on his lovely wife and bother McGonagall for old time’s sake.

Professor Potter, who attends every Quidditch match with her dorky husband at her side and her son on her lap waving a small Gryffindor flag.

Professor Potter, pregnant with her second child and brewing anti-nausea potions to get through all her classes despite all the smells.

Professor Potter, who earns Professor Flitwick ten galleons because he bet that she would go into labor the moment the O.W.L.s began.

Professor Potter, who regularly writes with Professor Slughorn about all the star pupils she has.

Professor Potter, who really tries not to favor Gryffindor, really, but the Weasley boy truly showed so much improvement since last class, the points were well-earned!

Professor Potter, who creates a safe and encouraging environment for students to learn in.

Holy shit I was not expecting all these notes, fam.  And fic recs in the reblogs!

Anyway I thought of more stuff:

Professor Potter, who very rarely misses class but when she does, the retirement-loving Slughorn is more than happy to step in.  Let’s be real, as much as he likes collecting people that will do favors for him, she can get a couple out of him, as well.

Professor Potter, who brews the wolfsbane potion for Professor Lupin every month and is beside herself with joy when he’s hired.

Professor Potter, whose husband is so conflicted over who he’s going to bother now when he pops in to Hogwarts unannounced: his wife, his children, or Remus.  All of them are so rarely in the same place.

Professor Potter, who is late to substitute for Professor Lupin one day and finds her husband and Sirius claiming to be the substitute instructors and having sent half the class off to find a mythical creature called a snipe.

Professor Potter, whose son is always asked for Potions help because “your mum is the teacher!”  Meanwhile, he just wants to do this extra credit assignment for Moony, okay, DADA is way cooler (don’t tell his mother he said that).

Professor Potter, who decorates her classroom extravagantly for every holiday.  She and Flitwick end up getting competitive about it.

Also:

Professor Potter, the embarrassingly proud momma who whoops when her kids get sorted (because she’s proud of ‘em wherever they go)

Professor Potter, who keeps a close eye on her students’ friendships and relationships and offers great advice to both sides when they get into spats (how she keeps track of it all no one knows)

Professor Potter, the mama bear who interrogates the poor soul their kid happens to fancy (and would unashamedly set her kids up if she approves)

Professor Potter, who looks the other way when her students set up pranks on Filch or other professors (but never on an innocent kid, no, she’d give them hell for that- and heaven help the Marauders if they were involved)

Professor Potter, who outright punches Umbridge the minute she finds about her methods (everyone cheered, Harry and his sibling/s and his friends just smiled knowingly, and the other professors were torn between holding her back and letting her continue)

Professor Potter, who visits Hagrid with her kids and husband at his little hut, and eats his rock cakes (despite having already shattered a tooth once)

Professor Potter, who takes over Muggle Studies one semester and immediately shucks the textbook out the window, crying out at how outdated and plain wrong it was (then proceeds to smuggle Muggle tech into Hogwarts to show them how they actually work)