They say that when you make important decisions you should look to your family for guidance and love. Well, I have done that in the reverse order. I am twenty three years old, and adult, yet i feel like a giddy child. I sit here waiting to tell my mother about my lover. My hands are ice, my face is drained of color, and my heart is pounding. I watch my swift approaching mother glide towards me. I stand still waiting for the right words to say.

"Mother, how are you?" I asked cautiously. My mother is a very stern woman's who comes across very hard and unfeeling. She has a great heart but it wasn't always obvious.

"I am well Minerva Katherine, and how about yourself?" her smile was strained and her dark eyes were evaluating even move I made.

"Well, I am doing extremely well and that is why I asked you to meet with me. There are some new things going on in my life that I thought you should know. After two years of teaching at Hogwarts I can say that I want to stay permanently which was expected by you and father. But I have something to discuss with you. Please sit, mother." Her mother nodded and sits down on the bench next to me. "I have found my niche and I think I am ready to move on to the next part of my life."

Mother studies my face for a moment before saying, "And that is?"

"Relationships, marriage, and a family." I replied quickly.

"So you feel that is wise? You are prematurely into your occupation with little knowledge of what is to come."

"Mother, I would never jump into anything with out testing the waters first." I mentally slap myself. She hates when I bounce around the question. She also reads me like a book.

"Who is he?" Her voice was mean and condescending.

I couldn't think of an easy way to tell her without the conversation turning into a battle of the wills. She will never approve of my lover but maybe there is a glimpse of hope that she will learn to be ok with the man I love. Her face turned away and looked into the distance as I took a sip of water before telling her everything.

"Mother, its Albus Dumbledore." She quickly closed her eyes and her body tensed up. Her lips formed a straight line and a deep breath came from her chest. "Mother, I...Please say something."

"Minerva, how long?" I didn't want to answer that question because she had been having an affair with the older man since she started teaching. "How long have you been with him?"

"We have been together for two years mother." I can't look at her, so I looked up at the trees and leaves swaying above us. A few more moments of silence then my mother stands. Her movement startles me and I reach for her hand. She pulls away and turns to me.

"Your father and I had planned out every moment of your life. We never planned this! Our daughter sleeping with a man older than her parents. Our daughter lusting after her own teacher, and lying to her parents. He is a gross man for ever touching you or engaging in such romantic ways. You stay away from him! You do not have mine or your father's blessing on this relationship. Adult or not, you can not make this choice. I want you to resign from Hogwarts...you will resign from Hogwarts." Her angered tone made tears slip down my face. I was in pain hearing that my parents hated my lover. That they wanted me to leave Hogwarts and leave the man I was in love with.

"Mother...please don't..." She left me alone to cry as my world began to crumple. They were going to destroy everything I had. I was going to be alone again under their control. I couldn't live like that anymore...and I am not letting go of the man that loves me for me.

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