...determining character traits by even looking at how you want them to be for your plot is kind of one of the warning signs you might be heading towards badfic! territory. If you've got scientific training, think of it in terms of experimentor bias. The good scientist tries to prove himself WRONG.
Of course they wouldn't stand for it. Consider Gale's reaction to Roland keeping Cielo!
'Dumbledore lets random people stay' fics are hard to make realistic. Teachers? After what happened with Lupin? He needed Lupin there for Harry's sake and he couldn't keep him. He couldn't even keep Umbridge out. Also, these are kids there. The kids it's his duty to protect.
One parody fic was ironic to me because the choices for teachers were supposed to be obviously bad and I read it and told the person who recced it that since one of them was a principal in a school training people to fight evil magic-users and the other was in canon amazingly good with messed-up kids, they were the most reasonable teacher choices I'd seen in that sort of fic for a long time, and it was quite odd that THIS fic, a parody, thought these were ones that were obviously bad when they were actually people I'd want to hire if I were him. If I could get away with it, which Dumbledore at the point in timeline this fic was set would not have, sadly.
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Re: Hmm... as you're speccing about houses continued.
Date: 2008-03-04 08:17 am (UTC)Of course they wouldn't stand for it. Consider Gale's reaction to Roland keeping Cielo!
'Dumbledore lets random people stay' fics are hard to make realistic. Teachers? After what happened with Lupin? He needed Lupin there for Harry's sake and he couldn't keep him. He couldn't even keep Umbridge out. Also, these are kids there. The kids it's his duty to protect.
One parody fic was ironic to me because the choices for teachers were supposed to be obviously bad and I read it and told the person who recced it that since one of them was a principal in a school training people to fight evil magic-users and the other was in canon amazingly good with messed-up kids, they were the most reasonable teacher choices I'd seen in that sort of fic for a long time, and it was quite odd that THIS fic, a parody, thought these were ones that were obviously bad when they were actually people I'd want to hire if I were him. If I could get away with it, which Dumbledore at the point in timeline this fic was set would not have, sadly.