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Dear Diary,<\/p>\nDear Diary,<\/p>\n
I am on the train to London. I may never see Dougal again\u2014or worse, and more likely, I’ll see him every time I visit my family.<\/p>\n
I keep thinking of his face, when I said I could not marry him. I knocked on his door and I could tell \u00a0he knew, the minute he saw me, but I still had to \u00a0say<\/em> it, I still had to take the ring off my finger, and I still had to put the ring into his hand because he would not take it from mine.<\/p>\n Before I walked to his father’s farm I wanted to put a charm on the ring, so that he would always stay safe. Then I thought I should put a love charm on the ring, so that whomever he marries will love him as much as I do. But Professor Dumbledore taught us that love charms always fail; love is something bigger than magic, and cannot be controlled by it.<\/p>\n But I gave up love for magic.<\/p>\n The hardest part is that I could not tell him why I had changed my mind. He said “I knew you didn’t really want to, I always knew,” and I wanted to tell him that I was doing this so I did not have to keep the truth of who I was a secret, but of course I could not tell him \u00a0because I have to keep the truth of who I am a secret<\/em>.<\/p>\n It’s a snake eating its own tail, and here’s its twin: if I told Dougal that I was going to work for the Ministry of Magic, I’d lose my job at the Ministry of Magic. So instead I let him think that I was fickle and \u00a0callous \u00a0and then I left for London early. \u00a0I did not tell anyone beside my family I was going, but I have no doubt that when I arrive, someone from the Ministry will be there to meet me. They know everything. They may already know about Dougal and the ring. It will be a relief if I never have to tell them.<\/p>\n Now I must begin my new life, and treat it like the life I always wanted. Which would have been true, before this summer. Which still is true\u2014even though it breaks my heart to think of it.<\/p>\n I hope Dougal will think of me fondly, once his own heartbreak has healed.<\/p>\n Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n Minerva<\/p>\n Previously in The Diaries of Minerva McGonagall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n How likely are you to ever get over the breakup of Dougal and Minerva on a scale of one to pack of centaurs howling in the Forbidden Forest?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Diary, I am on the train to London. I may never see Dougal again\u2014or worse, and more likely, I’ll see him every time I visit my family. I keep thinking of his face, when continue reading<\/span>