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__	FULL NAME Nadège Maria Benoit-Pérez	___	BIRTHDAY 4 Dec, 1987	_______	AGE 34	_______	GENDER Female	__
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__	OCCUPATION Professor	___	EDUCATION Uagadou	_______	BLOOD Half-Blood	_______	SPECIES Human (Seer)	__

Dirt stained hands weren’t the best for readings, but young, nine-year-old Nadège made do with what she had. It had been almost an instinct to look at her classmate’s hands; her sizeable interest in the boy’s clubbed thumbs serving as a distraction from the other children yelling and chasing each other throughout the playground. The boy grew pale when Nadège leaned close and whispered, “You have Murderer’s Thumbs,” but quickly seem relieved again when she reassured him, after a pat on the back of his hand, that the cuticle was curved in such a way that he needn’t worry after all.

He slipped her a few centavos before running off to the swings and she placed the coin into a pocket sewn onto her uniform shirt for safe-keeping. This is Nadège’s earliest memory of her fascination with divining, if only for the sore ear she had gotten from the teacher afterwards for hand-holding. Even then, when she was trailing back home along a Havana sidewalk, popping the candy she stopped to buy into her mouth, all was well and simple - until the biggest manifestations of her talent to come.

All who know Nadège would agree that she loves her family. Her father, Jacques, is a Haitian wizard, and her mother, Graciela, a Cuban no-maj. She has a big brother, Jose, and little siblings named Santiago and Maya. However, this close-knit and proud family of six first felt strain when Nadège, then twelve-years-old, prophesied her mother’s illness years before symptom or diagnosis. No one understood the gravity of the situation when Nadège slumped over at the dinner table, no one except her father, who kept quiet when Graciela dismissed the odd fit as “fainting” before whisking Nadège away to rest. Jacques couldn’t ignore the parallels between his daughter’s behavior that evening to those of his own grandmother decades prior and grew remorseful at the possibility of his daughter being driven to madness with her visions as happened with his ancestor. For many months afterwards, Nadège would receive no decent explanation or deciphering of the event, not until one day meeting a man she’d forever call her mentor.

Babajide Olabanwo. His name felt heavy on her tongue, and she couldn't quite place his age save for the speckles of gray in his hair. Babajide was a Yoruba wizard and a distant relative of Jacques Benoit; the pair had apparently known each other for years though Nadège had no idea how they initially met. More pressing of mysteries (more pressing than the strange crystals adorned on his fingers) was his purpose for visiting that day:

“Nadège,” said her father in Creole, waving her over to sit at the table beside him. “Meet Babajide. He is a part of the family.” More specifically, her first cousin, twice removed. Nadège would always recall saying little as the stranger explained that he was just like her— a Seer, he had called it— and that the flashes of intuition shared between them were a gift. The knowledge put her mind to rest even if she did forget the details of her first prophecy. Jacques was the one who asked if she'd like to go with the man to Uganda, where she could improve her talents at a renowned school.

It was difficult imagining herself leaving her siblings for several months at a time, her classmates, and her parents. Nadège slept on the offer for over a week before agreeing. It felt the best thing to do.

Uagadou is known for Astronomy, a subject which Nadège knew useful for pursuing Divination. Additionally, being surrounded by students throughout the continent were a great source of understanding the plethora of ancient African Divination rituals. After graduating with good marks from Uagadou School of Magic and moving her belongings back overseas to Cuba, teenaged Nadège faced pressure from her mother, for the last time, to find a more “professional” line of work, but her passions in Divination remained unwavered. She left the country to travel worldwide and study the Divination practices of other cultures, both wizard and muggle. Most interesting she found was China; there was thousands of years of history to unearth. Eventually, she found herself in Great Britain, where she took advantage of the high number of weary pure-blooded parents to work as a Naming Seer while completing her mentorship.

Due to the Second Wizarding War of her childhood, the British Ministry’s Hall of Prophecy faced a disastrous loss of records in 1996. Several years following the event, Ministry officials began reconstruction, which required the contracting of Seers. Nadège one day applied and was hired for the position following her experience in freelance. She worked here for several more years and contributed a few records of her own. In July of 2018, she was hired to teach Divination at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

HOGWARTS STAFF:
❊ Sorrel Wright, Ex-Head of Gryffindor | Nadège thinks she is incredibly kind and wouldn't mind chatting with her again.