Teddy R. Lupin (makethemproud) wrote in bearandbarnacle, @ 2008-09-21 20:50:00 |
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Teddy Lupin: Topic: Jobs
Professor McGonagall had told them time travel wasn’t unusual in this place he privately thought of as Supernatural Portal Posing As Margate (SPPAM, for short).
When he and Victoire had met the Professor on the beach upon arrival, he wanted more answers than questions—it went against his Ravenclaw nature to not interrogate the unusual lack of knowledge Minerva had about Octavia. But he suspected something else; and at the time he certainly wasn’t about to say that the concept of alternate timestreams had been discussed among him and his more eccentric colleagues. He suspects that this could be a good example of it. But that theory’s a stretch, even for the young man who enjoys dabbling in the stuff better left to Unspeakables.
First and foremost, Teddy Remus Lupin has always been fascinated with history. Whether it was a natural interest or just something brought on by the knowledge of his parents and their past, who really knows? Almost everyone expected him to follow in his mother’s footsteps and become an Auror, but he went against that. He politely told those that questioned his decision that he had enough of Dark wizards in his life, never mind that he was only a month old when they changed his. Instead, he pursued the past beyond the dull History of Magic classes in school and straight into the Ministry of Magic. In short, Teddy is a historian.
To document history in its truest, most unbiased form is the main concept of his career. Actually executing that is the more difficult part—nothing short of time travel could do the job. To actually go back and observe how things really happened would revolutionise their field, get rid of the habit of history being written by the winners. But as far as he knew, the higher-ups were still heatedly discussing that. Ethics of meddling with the past aside, there was simply no way yet to figure out how to travel into the past and back to the future without having to live all those years skipped. Too dangerous, impractical, what’s wrong with the way things are now? Teddy grimaces when he thinks of his superior’s reply when he cornered her after another meeting. Nineteen years after the War and some people were still stuck with that conservative line of thinking.
So for now, magical historians did their job in much the same way their Muggle counterparts did theirs.
He was still a rookie in his colleagues eyes, having started two and a half years ago at the ripe age of 17. The more interesting cases are left to the more experienced. Not that the metamorphmagus would admit it aloud, but a part of the reason he pursued history was an interest in the parents he never knew. He wanted to be able to work on the Second War and focus on the Battle of Hogwarts. Learning and documenting history gave him another link to his family apart from the stories told to him by the Weasleys, Harry or his grandmother. Teddy knew it likely wouldn’t happen. If he did that, it wouldn’t be the ideal unbiased report. But he wanted to know if there was anything else, any scrap of information about Dora and Remus Lupin that had been overlooked, despite the continuous updating of history texts for school.
Overall, it’s an... alright place to be, the archives at the Ministry. Teddy’s content, but he doesn’t feel that he’ll be sitting at the same desk in twenty years’ time. But it’s only through stories, reports and photographs that the young man can solidify his memories of his parents; after a certain point, there'll be only so much he can learn about them. But he’s been careful to keep his personal reasons as seperate as he can manage from his work. In fact, Teddy’s often toyed with the idea of applying for the position of teaching History of Magic up at Hogwarts. He could make it more about modern Magical History if he knew enough, if he qualified...
Though there’s amusing appeal in morphing his face into Ugg the Unclean’s while he lectures on the revolt the goblin led in 1427. He smiles, then. Another Professor Lupin at Hogwarts. Wouldn’t that be something?
With a quiet chuckle at that thought, Teddy sits back in his seat and observes the notebook page before him. Writing down his theories about the place, he decided, is the best way for him to organise his thoughts. He’d escaped the windy beach (his tousled, natural brown hair can attest to that) to the apparently popular pub to finish scribbling his observations. But all he’d done was make a circular mess of things.
He sighs and puts pencil to paper again. What did Hawthorne say about alternate timestreams, again? They had been taking their coffee break...