class of 2938. what a prominent year they had had to graduate in. so many things had happened, some good like the ministry election, some bad like the death of the head auror. but whichever way it was presented they were going into a brand new world that was still only just finding its feet. this was the kind of world that could bend to their influences be them positive or negative compared to previous and future years who had to bend themselves to fit the sorent flow of events. for elvera she had not seen a group with such opportunity graduate and she had seen a lot of graduations, this would be her ninth if she remembered correctly. the first had been her own exactly ten years ago, then she had missed a year but had seen almost every other one except for one year when she had been in the dark space. she watched how close these classmates were, listening to the head boy and head girls speeches. clapping them both politely. then as each student passed the stage she wondered where each of the students would be in ten years time though she forced herself not to look. and from that thought she wondered where her classmates were now. some of them she knew, eden was traveling again. Kida was a professional quidditch player and married to the man she loved (not that she was bitter about it). hoshi was living it up somewhere after going through many trials. Aeon was of course still in the castle teaching transfiguration. she saw beths name pop up in the daily prophet but she hadn't spoken to the girl since graduation, no before. and many of the other people she had no clue about. and thinking the other way in another ten years her daughters would be here sitting under the sorting hat. and with that she drew herself to the hear and now watching the last few people cross the stage. as the ceremony was closed the hum of the growd started and grew. Elvera got to her feet and wandered around the hall wishing congratulations and good luck to the graduates, greeting the parents and some older students at the school.