'Harry Potter and the Bucket Load of Therapy': 20+ Potterhead Theories on What Should Happen After the Battle of Hogwarts

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 19, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Even though The Cursed Child is a popular play that a lot of Harry Potter fans enjoy and admire, most Potterheads will tell you that they do not view the events of that play as actually canon. Why and how the plot of this so-called "eighth book" is so hated can be the topic for another day,  because today we will discuss what people actually want to read after the events of the original series came to an end.

When the seventh book ended, we knew enough of the future to be content with how everyone concluded their story, but that doesn't necessarily mean that is where their story really ended. There could be countless other adventures waiting to be explored, and a lot of contexts that we never really got to read come to life.

That is why the Potterheads below decided to discuss what stories they would have loved to read after the Battle of Hogwarts ended. Which characters deserved more attention? What did the Golden Trio get up to immediately after defeating Voldemort? And most importantly, did any of them finish their seventh and final year of school?

Keep reading to find out more.

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    If you get to write a book after the Hogwarts battle, what would be the plot ?
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    Would love to hear your own version of post war harry potter. And at which age they would be . What kind of jobs thy would be doing. And will there be new villains likewise. Plz write your short story, shirt fan fiction or comment here
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    jprice686 McGonagall & Kingsley's efforts to rebuild Hogwarts and the Wizarding world as Headmistress & MoM respectively.
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    RBT_ Honestly, a good Auror book with Harry and Ron at centre as young Aurors. So much you can do with it.
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    DiegoFSN In the podcast Through the Griffin Door they had an excellent theory about Barty Jr. using the doth of his father to make a horcrux. He even transfigured the body into a
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    bone, in case he needed a "bone from the father" to come back. Honestly I'd love to see that play out. An older Harry against his old DaDA teacher and the last c th eater.
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    And the coolest part of it? The horcrux is Moody's eye.
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    RainbowRevolver Harry Potter and The Bucket Load of Therapy
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    hamburgergerald Harry goes back to Hogwarts to complete his schooling, and finally has a completely normal school year without somebody trying to kl him.
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    pagusas I'd do a book on the first school year right after the battle, it would be a great epilogue that would have some cameos of key characters but the gist of the
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    book would be on life at the school and give everything a "post war - return to normal life" feel, that will highlight what the "normal" people in the wizarding world went through during the
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    last few years and how they now see our heroes. It would be a calmer book but one that expands the universe and introduces new characters for us.
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    Realistic-Weight-959 I want them to go on a road trip where Harry is on Sirius' motorcycle and Ron and Hermione in a car and they go to Australia to find Hermione's
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    parents (and Crooshanks???) and they just get to make good memories travelling after the horrors of being runaways camping out
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    bowtiesrcool86 Might be neat to see the adult trio stop an evil threat that ends with Hermione being named Minister of Magic.
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    CeruleanFuge "Friday Night Flights" - An Oliver Wood spin-off about his professional quidditch career.
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    Far_Silver The Golden Trio going back to Hogwarts for their seventh year. It would be a slice of life, and since Harry and Ginny would be in the same year we can see the romance when they go to class together.
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    Lord Kreias The Fantabulous Adventures of Magizoologist Luna Lovegood.
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    therdn47 Some evil dude found the resurrection stone and tried to bring back Grindelwald somehow... Harry as an auror has to stop it.
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    Salted Meats A book where Dudley is describing their year on the run to a therapist.
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