I've wandered these halls for years. My name has been lost and I am merely a legend now. I believe they call me "The Dark Geisha". When I first learned of this I was deeply offended-honestly, me a geisha! Do I look like a whore? A Japanese prostitute? I became obsessed with learning all I could about what it meant to be a Geisha.
The word Geisha means "artist". Geishas dedicated their lives to studying the arts. They used what they had learned to entertain at social events. They were not whores but women of the arts! Some how through the centuries their livelihood was twisted and reshaped to produce something full of dishonour and shame. I embraced my new name-for I truly was "The Dark Artist". I spent countless evenings studying the Dark Arts and how to defend others against it-it was too late for me, but others need not suffer. Some evenings, I would leave Professor Dumbledore notes scribbled in haste on discoveries or hypotheses I had about some new technique, potion or method that I had found or created (all these years and I still call him Professor). I wanted others to know, to be prepared. Tonight Dumbledore will come to see me. My heart is beating so quickly now; my stomach is full of knots of fear and anxiety. I know that no harm can come to me-I'm dead for Merlin's sake! And yet, I'm still riddled with apprehension.
"Miss. Nox? May I enter?"
"Yes, please do. And Headmaster, please call me Kaida"
"Well Kaida, I know that your time is valuable and that you would much rather spend it in the library, so I will be quick. We will have a new professor for the Defence Against the Dark Arts class. Remus Lupin has kindly offered his services to the school-I believe that he was in your year, was he not?"
"Yes, Headmaster, I believe so…"
"Kaida, I'll be frank, I had intended on giving the position of professor of the Defence Against the Dark Arts to you-your findings are quite inspiring and you have so much to offer the students not to mention the wizarding world…"
"Headmaster, you're too kind…but we have discussed this…"
"Yes, I know, you do not feel ready…but it is my hope that you will humour this old wizard and make Remus feel welcomed. It would please me greatly if you and Remus were to work something out so that your findings and knowledge can be shared with the students."
"But Headmaster, I don't think it will be wise for him to know what I am…he might not understand…"
"Believe me Kaida, he will. Lemon Sherbert?"