A/N: This drabble uses an OC from my story "One Day at a Time," but you don't have to have read it to understand the drabble. Reviews and advice are always greatly appreciated! (E.g. Is it clear this is supposed to be McGonagall's point of view, not some omnipotent narrator?)
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The Professor and the Counterfeiter
McGonagall neither expected nor wanted to see Tarazet Colburn when she walked into the Hog's Head that day. She neither expected nor wanted to see a reminder of her failures as a professor.
A memory: Colburn, a talented student, asking for career advice. Her words: "It would be a shame if you did not pursue your skills in transfiguration to their full extent." Millions of galleons counterfeited through transfiguration, and an Azkaban sentence later, and the shine to his eyes had been replaced by a world-weary dullness.
She should have told him to not fly so close to the sun.