~Late Summer, 1989, Hogsmeade Train Station~

Setsuna sighed. With the blessing of her Princess, along with Hotaru's, she had accepted the job. Noting, of course, that Haruka had to call from Australia (her knowing was courtesy of Hotaru's weekly calls) and tell her that this will do her good.

'See the world in person for a change,' she had said, 'and not from behind those stupid doors of yours!'

Setsuna smiled at the memory. Haruka will be Haruka. And she wasn't going to be one who changed that.

She was sitting on a bench outside of a Scottish train station. She was wearing white long pants with a white belt and a soft orange tank top with a black short sleeve shirt under. All of her hair was in a messy bun on the top of her head. She had dyed her hair black so that people in England wouldn't look at her too weirdly. The hair colors in England don't have a big variety like Japan.

Without looking at her watch, she could tell that whoever this professor was she is supposed to meet was late. Just because she can't control time any more doesn't mean she lost her sense of time.

"Miss Setsuna Meioh?" a voice called. "Miss Meioh?" She turned to see a much shorter but older gentleman. He was a white haired with a hint of brown and was wearing dark green robes.

"Yes? I'm Setsuna Meioh," she introduced herself to the professor.

"Ah! Sorry for being late, I am Professor Filius Flitwick. A meeting with the Headmaster went a little over time," Profess Flitwick apologized. And Setsuna was glad that she had decided to learn English and a few other languages over the years.

"It's alright," she smiled at the man.

"I hope you don't mind if you Apparating to get closer to the town. From there we can take a carriage to the school," Setsuna hesitated when she saw Filius pull out his wand out of his sleeves, "First time Apparating?" Professor Flitwick asked, with a slight chuckled in his voice.

"Is it that obvious?" she gave a small smile.

"Well, we can side-long apparition," Professor Flitwick offered his arm.

She didn't know too much about apparition, but she knew it could be dangerous. She cautiously reached for Professor Flitwick's arm with her eyes closed.

For the next few seconds, she felt like she was in the eye of a tornado. Her body was spinning in every direction. Once they were done arrived at their location, she stood still for a minute trying settle her stomach.

"The carriage is just around the block," he said before they started walking.

She had never been to an all wizard town. And as they were walking, she saw unusual shop and stores' names. The Three Broomsticks? Wiseacre's Wizarding Equpment? Zonoko's Joke Shop?

The ground had small flowers scatted about on the ground. People were walking at different paces. Loud sounds were coming from the joke shop. Professor Flitwick slowed down when they passed Dominic Maestro's, which appeared to be a music store. What caught Setsuna's attention the most was Tomes and Scrolls. It seemed to be a bookstore. And very busy one at that.

"Here's the carriage," Professor Flitwick pointed at a black carriage with headlamps on the front. She was looking at them skeptically- not at the carriage but what appeared to be in front of it.

"Um, is that a Thestral?" she asked.

"That is correct," he confirmed, "Only those who have seen death can see them. I and a few other professors can see them as well.

"Is it really a good idea to use them? Can't they be dangerous?"

"Yes, but our gatekeeper, Hagrid, has them tamed. We have yet to have an attack on a student. Most of them believe that the carriage is pulling itself anyways."

"Hopefully it stays that way... Magical life seems to be very different from non-magical."

"Indeed. Shall we go?" she nodded in response. And the two climbed into the carriage.

The whole ride was silent and Filius was fighting to stay awake. Prepping for the upcoming school has been overwhelming for all the staff members. Even without a threat of the latest Dark Lord, who has been dead for a few years.

Dear friend, colleague, and fellow Head of House, Minerva McGonagall, has been fretting over two incoming students: Fred and George Weasley. According to their three older brothers, two of whom were currently students, the twins are known for causing trouble. Given that their parents and brothers had all been in Minerva's house, it's practically a fact that they'll be in Gryffindor. Filius has been helping with her work, which is almost double of his. But it wasn't a big burden since it was helping a friend.

While Filius was trying not to fall asleep, Setsuna was creating her lesson plan proposal. She has limited knowledge of Wizarding history, and it wasn't enough to teach 14 or so different classes. The last professor for this post had taught mostly about goblin rebellions, giant wars, and the origins of wizarding society.

The Silver Millennium's history might be allowed. Some of today's magic is from the time period I believe.

The carriage finally arrived at a rusting gate. Behind it, loomed a magnificent castle, and three towers stood taller than the rest of the castle.

The gates slowly creaked opened. A man, with a long silver beard and a hint of auburn color hair, and a woman, whose black hair was in a tight bun, appeared.

"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Meioh," the man smiled cheerfully. "My name is Albus Dumbledore and I am the current Headmaster. This is my deputy, Minerva McGonagall who teaches Transfiguration and is a Head of House," the woman, now named Minerva, nodded.

"Thank you for having me here. It's quite an honor. I just hope I'll be able to live up to your expectations as a professor," Setsuna politely bowed to the professors.

"Come, you must be tired from you journey here. The students don't arrive for a few weeks, so hopefully you will get to know the other staff members in the meantime."

The four walked up the hill to the massive school building, while Setsuna asked how the school is ran. The students were grouped into four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Minerva is the Head of Gryffindor and Filius is the Head of Ravenclaw. The other Heads are Pomona Sprout, who teaches Herbology and the Head of Hufflepuff, and Severus Snape, who teaches Potions and the Head of Slytherin. A warning came from Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick about Professor Snape: he can be rude, a bit bitter, and very sarcastic.

At the top of the hill, in order to get into the castle they had to enter through glorious double doors. She was amazed by the details in the patterns. There were also four different simple drawings of a lion, snake, badger, and eagle inside a crest.

"Minerva, Filius, would you two mind going to the staff room to prepare for the staff meeting tonight? I'll show our new professor to her rooms," Headmaster Dumbledore offered.

Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick just nodded and walked down a corridor on the right. She waited until Headmaster Dumbledore waved for her to follow him up the main stairway. She tried to remember the path from the front door to her new quarters. However, there were too many different stairways and turns they had to walk for her to recall later. They had finally reached a painting of a three headed dog.

"In order to get into your quarters, you'll need a special password. The current one is 'Zodiac Wheel'. You can change it any time you want," he demonstrated by saying the password. "There is also another door, around the corner that leads to your office for students to enter. Another door is in your room that leads to your office for you privately."

The painting swung opened to show a sitting room with a dark color scheme. Two walls had bookshelves going to the ceiling; the others had windows or doors. A dark wood coffee table was in the middle of a burgundy love seat couch and two chairs. By the window there, a side table stood. A comfortable black chair was right next to it.

"There is a staff meeting at 7 o'clock tonight in the staffroom. You have time to settle before, of course. When you are really to leave, you can summon your house elf, Millie, to lead you. I hope everything is to your satisfactory," he said. And the Headmaster left shortly after.

Setsuna couldn't believe the quality of the room, a few pieces of furniture looked like antiques. There was a painting that depicted ocean scenery. Michiru would love this. Setsuna smiled at the thought of her family. She went to explore the one of the door next to the table.

This door led to the bedroom. There was an oil-lamp on the nightstand, which wasn't lit given the windows were still letting light come in. The bedspread was a garnet color and pillows were white.

She was starting to get suspicious about all this. All these colors were her Senshi colors. Does he know?

Done with this room, she went through the other door in the sitting room. This one led to her new office. Her office had roughly the same color scheme as the other two rooms. The desk was a dark wood and a chair behind had burgundy cushions. On top of her desk was a folder. She skimmed the folder and it seemed to be pre-class preparation.

She walked back into the sitting room and decided to examine some of the books on the shelves. The first few were wizardings books that she couldn't quite understand. One book seemed to be about Charms and another was on the history of potions. The first one that caught her interest was Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory by S. Mehlberg and Carolyn R. Fawcett. It seems that Dumbledore had done looking into her background and gotten books to suit her taste, which was a bit alarming since these were 'muggle' science books. She sat down to read the first few pages for only a few minutes, which easily turned into reading for about two hours. The only reason she stopped was because the time was 6:45.

Before she called the house elf to lead her to the meeting room, Setsuna checked for her new wand. The wand was a stiff 10" Elder, with a core of Dragon Heartstring. The wand maker, Ollivander, wasn't that surprise when she asked for a wand. But she put that thought aside for now.

"Millie?" she called. The next second, a faint pop sounded behind her.

"How may Millie serve her mistress?" Millie bowed very low.

"Please, no 'mistress' just call me 'Setsuna'," she smiled at the small creature.

"If that is what my mist-" Setsuna gave Millie a warning look, "If that is your wish, Miss Setsuna," Millie tried again.

Setsuna nodded at the second sentence, "Would you mind leading me to the staff room, Millie?"

"Of course! Millie lives to serve the great people in Hogwarts School."

When the two left the room, they waited to make sure the portrait closed properly. As they walked, she was thinking about her new life here. I hope this goes well.

When Setsuna arrived in the staff room, there were already some people sitting in chairs around the room. She saw two familiar faces, Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall, but the Headmaster wasn't in the room. Professor McGonagall was sitting at a large round table in the middle of the room reading. Professor Flitwick was drinking tea with an older gentleman, or he at least appeared to be older. Two women were sitting by the windows talking and giggling. One of the women was fit and had spiky greying hair and the other was a plump older woman also with grey hair. Another woman, with vulture like features, was reading an old worn book in a corner away from everyone.

"Ah, Professor Meioh," Professor Flitwick looked up from his conversation, "it's good to see you made!"

"So, are you the next victim for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post?" the woman with spiky hair smirked.

"ROLANDA!" Professor McGonagall and the plump woman yelled. "I apologize for her behavior, Professor Meioh," Professor McGonagall added.

"I'm kidding Minerva," the woman, Rolanda, laughed. "But still, are you the new Defense professor?"

"It's alright, Professor McGonagall. I'm the new History of Magic professor," she smiled at the woman who reminded her of Haruka.

"But you're so young!" the plump woman commented.

"Really, Pomona, have you no tact?" Professor McGonagall scolded her friend.

"I guess you could consider a 28 young for a professor," she smiled at the two women by the windows.

"Well, at least we know that you have a chance of being around for a few years," the man who was formally talking with Professor Flitwick remarked.

"What do you mean?" she tilled her head.

"Silvanus is referring to a rumor that the position is cursed. These last few years it seems that we can't keep a Defense Against the Dark Arts for more than a school year. As surreal as it is, I'm starting to believe it," Professor McGonagall explained.

"I never knew that the great Minerva McGonagall believed in rumors," a voice behind Setsuna made her jump.

"Well it does appear we can't keep a Defense professor, Severus. Even you can't deny it," huffed Professor McGonagall.

A man, Severus, was now next to her and smirked at the Gryffindor head. He had black hair that went to his shoulder, cold looking black eyes, and pale skin.

He also looks young to be a professor.

He walked to the bookcase near Professor McGonagall, and picked, what looked like, a random book. He then sauntered over to the same table Professor McGonagall and sat at to read.

"Come Professor Meioh, you don't have to stand in the doorway," Professor Flitwick waved.

"Er, hai," Setsuna slightly blushed and went to sit with Filius.

She past the pair of talking women and heard the plump woman (Pomona?) say, "How can he be this cheerful all the time?"

"A Cheering Charm, no doubt. He is the charms professor after all," Rolanda mocked whispered.

Setsuna sat down and the other man Professor Flitwick was talking to spoke, "You apparently know Minerva and Filius. But I don't believe you've formally met everyone else. I'm Silvanus Kettleburn, I teach Care of Magical Creatures. The two women by the windows are Pomona Sprout and Rolanda Hooch, who teaches Herbology and Flying respectably. The lady in corner reading is our librarian, Irma Pince. And the young man who just walked in is our wonderful potion professor, Severus Snape."

"Speaking of introductions, have met the new Defense professor, Minerva? If it isn't young Professor Meioh, then who?" Madam Hooch asked before Setsuna could respond to Silvanus.

"Unfortunately for you Rolanda, you'll have to wait a few more days to find out. And I won't say anything about that person until then. You'll just have to be patient," the Headmaster walked through the door, with shine to his eyes.

"Minerva was right when she say that you have an evil alter ego under that fatherly persona," Madam Hooch muttered.

"My own deputy turned against me. What has the world come to?" the Headmaster said dramatically. His deputy just rolled her eyes.

"What about the world, Headmaster?" another woman, with wavy brown hair in professional clothing, spoke.

"Oh nothing to worry about. It appears that not everyone is here yet. Does anyone might know where our missing staff members are?"

"Charity, Bathsheda, and Septima are coming tomorrow, Filch is somewhere in the castle, Hagrid and Aurora should be coming, and Sybill rarely comes down from her towers, so it's likely she'll be absent," Professor McGonagall counted off. And the Headmaster nodded and made his way to a seat.

Shortly after, two more people walked in.

"Ah, Hagrid, Aurora you finally made it," he waved them over.

"Sorry, sir, I was trying to get away from Filch's bloody cat. No offense, professor," a half giant man looked towards Professor McGonagall. She was very confused why Hagrid nodded to Professor McGonagall after insulting cats.

"I lost track of the time on the Astronomy Tower, Headmaster. I was testing some of the telescopes," a woman with a dark complexion similar to her own.

"Before we start the meeting let me introduce the three late comers," the Headmaster said, "The woman with wavy brown hair is our Matron and school nurse, Poppy Pomfrey. The man is the school gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid. And the woman with Hagrid is Aurora Sinistra, the Astronomy professor. Poppy, Hagrid, Aurora, this is Setsuna Meioh, our new History of Magic teacher."

"Can we please get this meeting started, Headmaster? I would like to get back to my laboratory," Professor Snape spoke up.

"Of course, of course. I now declare this meeting in session," Albus smiled at everyone. The other professors who weren't at the table reluctantly moved to a chair at the circle table.

"Given that some staff members aren't here, we can't do much. But we can get started on this year's budget. Nothing will be official yet," Professor McGonagall pulled out a scroll and read from it.

Setsuna saw Aurora Sinistra counting down from three to one on her fingers. What's this all about?

"I propose we use the money to buy new brooms!" Madam Hooch practically yelled.

"Right on schedule, Rolanda," Professor McGonagall smirked.

"Well, we do need new brooms. Or else our ratty old ones will seriously hurt a student because they can't be controlled."

"A valid point, Rolanda. Does anyone object to the proposal?" the Headmaster looked around. "New brooms are a possibility this year. Any more ideas?"

Madam Pomfrey was the next one to speak up, "If anything should happen like last year where half the school got sick, I'll need either more healing potions or more ingredients to make healing potions."

"Honestly Poppy what are the chances of that happening again?" Silvanus asked. "You have enough materials for the next five years already."

"Well then, don't complain to me when you get sick later," Madam Pomfrey snapped back.

"Alright you two, that's enough. Now moving on, if no one else has any more ideas, we could use the money for an extra celebration for the students," Dumbledore said with a smile, as if he's been waiting to do his ideas. "Moving on, schedules are next on the agenda. Does anyone have a finished draft of their schedules for this year?"

Some of the professors nodded their heads, and those who did gave Professor McGonagall a small stack of papers. Setsuna remembered seeing them in the folder on the desk in her office.

"Good. I think that's all we can do for now until the rest of the staff gets back. Meeting adjourned."

Everyone immediately started to walk back to their seats from earlier or sat down in an available one.

Setsuna walked over to the bookcase by Professor McGonagall's seat to browse. The book Hogwarts: A History stuck out to Setsuna the most. Deciding to read this to get an idea of the school and wizard history, she walked over the meeting table to sit down.

Though Setsuna was a Physic major, she does have an interest in history. The four most powerful witches and wizard of their time, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin founded the school. Each was the original head of their namesake house. The four worked harmoniously together for a while, but a rivalry formed between Godric and Salazar. Salazar wanted the school to be more elite when it came to choosing incoming students. Godric didn't like the idea and thought that magical blood was magical blood, there was no need for blood status.

Setsuna was about start reading about the Ravenclaw house when Madam Hooch sat next to her and started a conversation. "Assuming from your name, I guess you're not from English?"

"That is correct, both my parents, that I know of, were both Japanese," Setsuna explained.

"I've never been to Japan before. Are there any magical schools there?" Professor Sprout joined in.

"None that I know of. I was taught magic by an old dear friend," she half lied. "But I would say magic in Japan is a much smaller community. I don't believe we have any wizard towns. But there are a lot of vampires though."

Professor Sprout shuttered at the mention of vampires.

"Not a big fan of vampires meself," Mister Hagrid said.

"I sometimes believe there is an actually vampire here," Madam Hooch said.

"And who would that be?" Professor Sprout asked.

Madam Hooch smirked, "Severus of course. He may not act like one, but he does dress like one."

Ten pairs of eyes turned attention to the potions master.

"Are you implying there is something wrong with the way I dress, Hooch?" Professor Snape said in an annoyed tone.

"Well you could wear more cheerful colors, my boy," Profess Flitwick said.

"Black is my favorite color and I prefer darker colors, is that a problem?"

"Green is Minerva's favorite color, but she doesn't wear it every day," Professor Sprout retorted.

"Please keep me out of this," Professor McGonagall spoke without looking up from her book.

"Killjoy," Madam Hooch muttered.

She smiled as she watched and listen to the rest of the conversation continue. It seemed like everyone got along with everyone. To some extent.