I make no claims to Harry Potter, any of the characters invented by JKR or to any money made off of them. I really wish I could make some money, but it would just be wasted paying for a lawyer and court fees, so I am doing this for free!

It wasthe summerthe trio had graduated and Ginny was going to be starting her7th yearin Spetemberand the war had just ended a few weeks earlier. Many loyalties have been tested and much to the surprise of everyone, there have been a few supporters of the light side that were originally thought to support Voldemort. The twins opened their third shop andhad success beyond their wildest dreams. The ministry had hired them to invent new and ingenuis ways to get the death eaters that remained. Mr. Weasley has become the new Minister, Bill was the head curse breaker at Gringotts and married to Fleur, they were expecting their first child any day now, Charlie has started his own Dragon reserve on the Orkney Islands and like his twin brothers had remained a bachelor, Percy was once again restored to his family and an undersecretary to his dad, he married Penelope Clearwater and had 1 child already and one on the way, Ron was playing professional quidditch for the Cannons and had just gotten engaged to Lavender Brown, who was 2 months pregnantand Harry was in Auror training, Hermione, who entered University immediately after graduating was training to become a Potions Mistress and had been dating Viktor for about 5 months now and once Ginny graduated she was going to train as a Mediwitch. Ginny and Harry had finally gotten together for good and were planning on marrying the summer she graduated. All in all the Wealsey family had become what the Malfoys once were in the wizarding world, but without the arrogance and biggotry. There had been many casualities and everyone who had survived tried to pick up the pieces and carry on. For some it was easier than others. Draco had lost both of his parents and all of their assests had been seized to help pay for victims of the war. Draco didn't mind, it was something that would have his father rolling in his grave, but his mother had loved many of the things in the Manor and Draco had loved her. McGonagall was now the headmistress at Hogwarts and with that job, she had the responsibility of hiring new teachers. They had lost Trelawny, Sprout, Flitwick and Snape. Many had applied for the jobs, but Minerva took her time in selecting the right people to teach. The most difficult position was for the Divination teacher. A few had applied, but Minerva wanted whoever it was to actually be able to predict something other than the forecast for that day. She had never respected Sibyl all that much and had tolerated her for Albus' sake. Just because someone made one correct prediction in their life, did not mean they had the sight, heck she had a flash when she was younger about a friend and it ended up coming true, but that didn't make her a bloody seer. There was going to be a meeting with the Order tonight, what was left of them anyway. The group, Minerva, all of the Weasleys, Shaklebolt, Lupin, Tonks, the few teachers that remained and Mad Eye, yes that crudgy old war horse made it through, had decided to keep the Order going just incase they were needed again. She was going to ask them to give her an outside opinion on the selection for the new divination teacher. She had chosen all the others, but who to choose for the Divination position still eluded her.

The meeting had just started and Minerva passed around the resumes of the 3 candidates.

"I have chosen a Potions professor, it will be Slughorn. The new Charms professor will be Molly Weasley, " with this everyone looked at Molly and congratulated her.

"The new Herbology professor will be Neville Longbottom and now why I called all of you here. I have yet to chose the Divination professor." with this Hermione snorted quietly.

"Here are the applicants I have gotten for the position. I would like you to read each of them and then write down your pick on a paper. Hopefully this will help me to choose."

The group was looking at the candidates for a while when Remus spoke up.

"Minerva, this last one here seems a little young. She is no older than Fred and George. You might want to go with one of the other ones!"

"I realise she is young and I had thought about someone else, but did you see her last name?"

Remus looked at the paper again and then his eyebrows shot up into his hair.

"You mean she's a... I thought that family was eliminated back when Grinwald was around?"

"It seems that one son survived and he married and passed the trait down to his children. Only one daughter survived to adult hood. The rest were hunted down, including the son and his wife. No one knew what had become of the girl until recently."

Mad Eye grabbed the paper and read it over.

"She seems to be more than qualified, but do we want to tramitize the children or even the adults for that matter?"

"Who are we talking about and why would everyone be scared?" Harry asked the group of adults.

"We are talking about Medea Ambrose and she comes from a very long line of gifted seers. In fact one of her ancestors was the personal advisor to Merlin. Along the line one of them wanted to have ultimate power, so they made a deal with the devil, literally, and in exchange for having immortality, they would practice the darkest of dark arts. Some wizards of the time found out and put a curse on the family that would make all of the decendants so hideously ugly that everyone would know who they were and not allow them to work or even live anywhere without being driven out. They also took part of their immortality away. They live longer than even most wizards, but not forever. The wizards thought that the line would die off, but it had not, it seemed that they could still get mates and continued to produce children and they went into hiding, until Grinwald came out. Some chose to join his side because of the autrosities they had suffered by the hands of everyone else, he offered them power and acceptance. Others in the family remained hidden, but that didn't matter to those who were hunting them down. It actually became a sport to hunt down an Ambrose. You could earn up to 100 galleons for the head of one." Most of the women in the group and a couple of the men looked decidedly green.

"After the war hunting them was outlawed and was punishable by life in Azkaban. Some however still thought it was fun to hunt them, so the family ran. As you heard, Medea was the only one to survive. I don't know how she did it, but never the less, she did."

"Is this her actual age?"

"Yes it is, I checked with the Magical birth records hall and it is her birth date. Now you can see the problem I am having. One of these appilicants I have never heard of before, another isn't to consisent with their predictions and the third is rumoured to be so hideous, she would have even Voldemort running in fear, but she has hit the mark right on with each prediction she has made and she doesn't have random ones."

Hermione looked at her favourite professor and asked, "what do you mean she doesn't have random ones?"

"I am sure you are all aware that Sibyl couldn't control when she had a vision, it would just come upon her and even then she would have no idea what it would be about and after have no idea what she said. The Ambrose, can controlwhen they havetheir visions and even remember what they said after."

"Oh!" was all that Hermione replied.

Arthur, who had been very quiet the whole time, now spoke up.

"Why don't you meet each of the candidates and see who you like best. It might be easier to chose after meeting them face to face, then on a piece of paper."

"You are absolutely right. I will arrange for them to come to the castle and whoever is chosen, will just stay on to teach. I also want to ask them to join the order, as I will be asking most other teachers, so they must be trustworthy in that respect." Minerva nodded her head to indicate the meeting was over and everyone departed.

Minerva had just finished her last interview and had already made up her mind part way through. She imediately sent an owl to the second candidate asking them to accept the position, she hoped they would accept and the others wouldn't be disappointed. The first was so arrogant and full of their self, they would have given Malfoy senior a run for his money. The second one was quiet and controlled, but their presence demanded respect, even from Minerva, although they never once asserted their authority and Minerva felt that she was talking to an old friend, one she could place her trust in and know without a shadow of a doubt that trust would not be broken. The last one was so withdrawn and sullen, that she wondered how they even expected to teach. They jumped at their own shadow. Oh well her decision had been made and hoefully she would have her Divination teacher before the end of the week. She pushed her glasses up her nose and pinched the bridge of her nose. She looked at the picture sitting on her desk and shook her head.

"How did you do it for all those years Albus, how?" Minerva got up and headed to her bed chambers. Tomorrow all of the school owls would go out and then they would be in a flurry for the rest of the summer getting ready for the students return in September.

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