Dumbledore sat behind his desk as he watched the door of his office close. His divination teacher had just bee to see him, she had told him that at the end of this school year she would be leaving.

Her reasons for leaving were that she saw terrible things in her future if she stayed here, but as Dumbledore reminded her, Hogwarts was one of the safest places in the magical world, and he doubted any harm would come to her here.

Dumbledore sighed and at that moment an owl flew through the window, it landed on his desk, dropped the letter it was holding in it's beak and flew off.

He opened the letter and read the parchment note inside.

I

Dear Professor Dumbledore,

My name is Sybill Patricia Trelawney, and I am the great-great-granddaughter of Cassandra Trelawney, a very gifted, very famous Seer, as you may well know.

At this present moment in time I am offering my services to you as a Divination teacher, as I think your students would very much benefit from by teachings of the noble art of divination.

I am currently staying at the Hogs Head Inn in Hogsmeade and I would be very please to meet with you to discuss this matter further.

Yours Sincerely

S.P Trelawney /I

Dumbledore read the letter through again.

Well, he thought, this woman is either a very gifted seer, or just very lucky.

He pulled out a piece of parchment with the Hogwarts stamp printed on the top. With his elegant quill he began to write a letter. Even though he didn't greatly desire another divination teacher, as he didn't particularly think there was much point in continuing the subject at the school, he thought it polite at least to meet with her.

He finished his letter telling her that he would meet her tomorrow and sent it off with one of the school owls.

Lily was sitting at the breakfast table with James, he was talking to her stomach while she ate her cornflakes.

"James, please stop talking to my stomach." Lily said.

"I'm not I'm talking to our baby." He said and he sat up straight, "urgh," he said looking at her breakfast, "how can you eat that?"

Lily was eating cornflakes, and instead of putting milk in with them she had put orange juice.

She shrugged, "it tastes nice to me."

"Women eat some weird things when they're pregnant." James said, "like last night you when you ordered a curry from that muggle place, you got the spiciest one on the menu."

"It was only a vindaloo." Lily said shrugging, "it wasn't even that spicy."

"I know, after you have this baby, I'm going to take you out ad buy you one then." He said a mischievous twinkle in his eye, "then we'll see if it's spicy enough for you."

"Fine," Lily said, although she had a feeling that she wouldn't be finding one of the spiciest curries there is bland then.

An important looking barn owl flew in through the kitchen window and landed on the table.

James untied two letters from it's leg and let it fly off.

"They're from the ministry." He said handing one to Lily.

"Must be our test results." Lily said, they looked at each other. "Lets open them a the same time."

"Right, on three." James said, "1.……….2.……..3" He said but neither of them moved.

"You didn't open yours," Lily complained.

"Well you didn't open yours either." James said.

"This is stupid." Lily said and she ripped it open and read the letter inside.

James followed her lead and opened his as well.

"I've done it, I passed,." Lily squealed, "I'm a fully qualified Auror."

James smiled, "that's great." He said.

"What's wrong, didn't you pass?" Lily asked.

"No," James said.

"Oh James," Lily said, "I don't believe it."

"Me neither," He said smiling, "I didn't just pass, I passed with full marks."

"You show of." Lily said hitting him on the arm, "don't scare me like that."

"I'm sorry, I couldn't resist." James said putting an am around her.

"Come on let's go and collect our robes." Lily said, the letter told them that they could come n and collect their robes any time they wanted.

"No, don't you worry, you've been doing too much lately for someone seven months pregnant." James said, "I'll go."

"I've hardly been out lately," Lily said, "and it's not like I'm going to run a marathon, I think I can handle going down to the ministry."

"Yeah I know, but isn't apparating a bit of a strain now?" James asked frowning.

"Well it's not as easy as before but I'll cope." Lily said.

James didn't look convinced.

"Look, this will be the last time I apparate unless I absolutely have to. I'll walk everywhere, or use alternative means of transport." Lily said. "OK?"

"I suppose." James said unconvinced.

"Stop worrying." Lily said giving him a tender kiss. "Nothing's going to happen."

Lily and James had collected their robes from the Auror office. They were long and black with a silver clasp and on the left hand said, in silver stitching indicating what level they were. At the moment they both had a one, written in roman numerals.

They met Jess on their way out.

"Hi," Jess said surprised to see them, "what are you doing here? Especially you Lily, you're seven months gone."

"That doesn't mean I'm incapable of going out." Lily said irritably.

"Take no notice of her." James said, "we here collecting our Auror robes."

"So your qualified now, well done." Jess said, "I'd love to stop and talk but I'm on my way to hand in a paper, see you later."

"Bye." James said and she ran off into the lift, James then turned to Lily who was looking a little grumpy. "Cheer up." he said, "come on I'm going to buy you an ice cream."

"I'm not a child." Lily said, "but I still want an ice cream!"

Dumbledore entered the Hogs Head, it wasn't his favourite place to meet someone, it had a strange smell and many of its costumers didn't look all the trust worthy.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for a Sybill Trelawney." He said going up to the bar man.

"Who? Oh that weird looking woman with all the bangles and stuff." The bar man grunted, "she's up in room ten."

"Thank you." Dumbledore said and he went up the stairs to the right of the bar.

He went carefully up to the top of the staircase, which could have done with a dust.

He reached the top and went down the corridor to room ten and knocked on the door.

"Please come in." came a voice from within, "I have been expecting you."

Dumbledore smiled, what if he had been a mad axe man coming to kill her?

He entered the room.

"Good day Professor, please come and have a seat." The woman said, she resembled a insect. She wore a shawl, over large glasses and many bangles.

"Good afternoon," Dumbledore said and he sat at the table with her. Before him lay a cup of steaming hot tea, and a crystal ball.

"Which of my talents would you like me to show you first?" She asked, "maybe you would like me to read your tea leaves, or gave into your future?"

"Not at the moment thank you." Dumbledore said politely, "let's just get straight down to business. Now tell me of your qualifications, why do you want to be a teacher?"

"I feel that, well, pupils would greatly benefit from my powers. I ay even discover some children with the power to look into the beyond." She said. "I don't have any teaching qualifications, per say, but it can't be that hard can it."

Dumbledore frowned a little, "well perhaps you would like to demonstrate your talents."

"Of course." She said, "I shall look into your future using my orb."

Dumbledore nodded as she placed her ands on the orb and started into it's depths.

"I see, I see great happiness in your future. Someone close to you, I think it's your son, yes your son is going to get married. You will have many grandchildren." She said in a mystic voice.

"Well I see," Dumbledore said smiling slightly, he didn't have a son. "Thank you for your time but I afraid that I don't think I'll be employing another-"

Dumbledore cut off as she started to talk, her voice cold and harsh, "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches," she said, she looked to him as if she was in some kind of trace. "Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies." Dumbledore heard a creak outside the door and a small scuffle, but he took no notice, he was to enthralled by what was happening in front of him. "The Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…"

She came out of her trance like state and looked at Dumbledore.

"I'm sorry what were you saying?" She asked her voice normal.

Dumbledore didn't answer straight away, he was thinking. "I was just about to tell you that I wanted to offer you a job." He said, he had just witnessed a real prophecy, he thought, and he thought it would be wise to keep her where he could keep an eye on her, even if it did mean giving her a job.

Lily and James sat out in the sunshine in Diagon Alley, it was a beautiful day, and they rarely did things like this together.

"We should go home." Lily said, "it's starting to get late."

"Righty ho!" James said and he stood up. "I've eaten way too much ice-cream. You know what-"

James stopped as he heard screams come from the other end of the street.

"What the?" Lily said, and she stood on her chair to see over the heads of the crowd. "It's Death eaters." She said.

"We should get out of here, I'm not taking any risks." James said but before they could leave a spell, aimed at him shot past his shoulder.

"Not running away are we Potter?" A Death Eater asked.

"Just bugger off." James said and he whipped his wand out.

Lily backed against the wall, trying to keep out of the way of any duels, she didn't want to get involved.

"James come on let's go." She called, but when she looked up James was no where to be seen, he was lost in the crowd of Death eaters and Aurors that had turned up.

"Oh crap, what am I going to do now?" she asked herself and she drew out her wand just in case.

Fierce duels were going on all around her, many people now lay on the ground. Lily just closed her eyes and prayed that she could get out of here alive.

She heard a familiar voice cry out in pain, she stood back on the chair and looked out. It was James, he was back in to a corner and she could see blood.

She knew that she probably shouldn't have be doing this but she ran into the crowd to him. Yes she was scared, as she was pregnant but she didn't think she'd be very happy if the baby's father didn't live to see it be born.

She ran up behind the Death Eater and blasted him out of the way, she then saw James holding his wand arm in pain, blood seeping down his robes.

"Lily what are you doing here, you should go, now." James said.

"I'm not leaving you here." Lily said.

"How touching," came a all to familiar voice from behind.

The hairs on Lily's neck stood on end and fear came over her, it was Voldemort.

"They always say third times a charm." Voldemort cackled and he raised his wand arm.

"No," Lily shouted, "not today." She shot a spell that make smoke rise up like a wall between Voldemort and her.

"Let's go." James said and they apparated out quickly before the spell wore off.