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By lunchtime the entire castle knew everything that Naraku had said to Trelawney during her class. Lavender and Pavarti were both almost in hysterics over someone insulting their 'idol' while most of the other students that had her class were hiding smiles by eating more than they normally would. About halfway through the meal Naraku glided into the hall followed by an unhinged looking Trelawney. "You can't do this to me! I am descended from the great Cassandra Trelawney! This school is lucky that I decided to grace it with my presence!" Anisuke almost thought that her eyes were going to explode with how large they looked behind her too large glasses.

"The entire reason that we were sent to this institution was to ensure that the professors and curriculum were up to the standard expected of one of the top three European magic schools." Naraku turned to look at Trelawney with an expression of complete boredom. "You are a seer that has only given two prophecies in your entire life and they are, like most prophecies, merely a possibility of what could happen given the proper actions. The only reason they even came to pass was that you managed to give them to people that, at that time, were willing to take the necessary actions to set things into motion. You are not gifted with the proper talents to show these children anything about the art of divination and are an insult to the field all together. I looked into your testing when you tried for a job in the Ministry and they showed that you little talent was too unfocused to be of any real use. As of this moment you are hereby released from your position at this school and I will begin the search for someone to temporarily replace you before the students are tested and proper instruction can be found."

Dumbledore stood up with the most interesting look on his face. "Now, now Naraku, surely there is no reason to jump to conclusions like this. Sybil has been a professor here for more than a decade and is one of the few that relies on the school for housing. Surely you don't need to eliminate her as a professor."

"She was put into her position at the same time that you abolished the right for all children to be tested for aptitude before being allowed into a divination class. It was the same time that you summarily dismissed all of the other professors of the art and closed down their classrooms. The number of children taking an interest in the arts has therefore dropped to almost a tenth of what it once was; the Ministry has had to cut their divination department down to a fourth of the size as well. How many more disasters could have been avoided if those with enough talent were taught to properly use it? How many lives could be saved? At the very least we need to have someone here that can properly introduce the theories behind the different methods available rather than rely on books, hoping that the students can get something out of them." Naraku reached the Head Table and took his seat with a flourish of robes before fixing Trelawney with a glare that stopped her in her tracks. "I will not let the students here suffer because Dumbledore has found you useful, you will have two weeks to find somewhere else to live. You have freeloaded off of the castle for more than a decade and should have more than enough saved up to move on."

{M}

"You have to do something!" Lavender and Pavarti turned to Anisuke with identical looks of horror on their faces the moment that Trelawney ran out of the room in hysterics. "He can't get rid of her, she's a seer."

"Did you listen to anything he said?" Anisuke could feel a migraine building. "She has only had two prophecies her entire life and they would have probably never come true if she hadn't had them. Self-fulfilling prophecies are horribly unreliable because the person that hears them has to take the necessary action to have it come true. All the 'predictions' she made during our third year were common knowledge. Neville was really klutzy, especially when someone made a mention of it. Everything else was something she could have learned just from paying a little bit of attention to other students and the Daily Prophet. We could learn so much more from someone that had true talent than someone that got lucky twice and pays attention. All three of them were sent here to make sure that we were being taught what we need to become the witches and wizards that we were meant to be, I am not going to get in the way of that because you want your little idol back."

The other students at the Gryffindor table nodded along and turned away from the duo after the speech. Lavender and Pavarti both looked like someone had pureed their puppy and tried to get Anisuke's attention for the rest of the meal, not that it did them any good.

{M}

Anisuke didn't like the Forbidden Forest too much before he went down the well, but now it was more like home than the castle with all of the cold, damp walls and annoying company. He took a moment to just stand with his head thrown back and his eyes closed to just feel the forest around him. None of his mates knew that he was out here and neither did anyone else. His mates probably wouldn't be happy with him but he needed to do some things by himself, if only to prove that having three dominant mates didn't make him unable to protect himself or get things done without their help.

"It has been a long time since you visited the forest without a filthy human presence trailing you." Bane's voice broke Anisuke out of his daze and he turned to the centaur with a smile.

"You know, I never knew why you never directly called me those names until this last summer." Bane was just as somber looking as usual but was missing the trademark stiffness that he carried whenever there was a human within sight. "Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I wasn't a human to begin with."

"You were so odd to me. A creature that walked with the humans, looked like a human, but did not act like one. You were the only one to enter this forest with the respect that it deserved, you alone knew that this forest was not something to bend to your will but something that you needed to bend your own will too." Bane looked to the stars for a moment before he looked back at Anisuke. "You have come to ask something of my herd."

"Yes, my mates are going through the school's professors to find out which ones need to stay and who needs to go. Obviously Trelawney was released but now we need someone to cover the Divination class until new professors can be found. I know of no better person to cover the class than a centaur. Your entire race is one of the only ones that respect divination the way that it deserves to be. Witches and wizards could learn something from all of you."

Bane looked to the stars once more with a sigh. "Firenze has always been too curious of their kind for his own good. Perhaps it would be best to send him to do this thing; he can explore that world and return to us when he has had enough of it. I feared that I would have to cut him from the herd for his leanings, this is by far the better path."

{M}

"Why not let her at least continue teaching the class for the rest of the year?" Dumbledore was seriously testing Naraku's patience, which is almost nonexistent to begin with. "It would take too long to find someone else that has a gift and the time to teach a class here."

"That won't be a problem at all." The entire Hall turned toward the doors to find something that hadn't been seen in Hogwarts since the time of the Founders, there was a centaur in the castle of his own free will. "My herd has allowed me to come to the castle to take over the teaching of your human divination until you can find members of your own kind to do so. My name is Firenze and I look forward to guiding the young in their quest to unravel the weave of Fate, even if you do not share the same passion as my kind does for the stars."

"Ah, well there you have it, we now have someone to cover the class so there won't be any problems with Trelawney relocating and finding another line of employment." Naraku leaned back in his chair and smirked as Dumbledore slumped over with a sigh.

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