20 Facts Every Harry Potter Super-Nerd Should Know
8. McGonagall Fell In Love With A Muggle
After graduating from Hogwarts, an eighteen-year-old Minerva McGonagall spent a summer at her family home in the Scottish Highlands before moving on to work with the Ministry of Magic, and, there, she fell in love with a handsome and charming Muggle farm hand by the name of Dougal McGregor. McGregor eventually proposed to her, but she found that she couldnt marry him because it would mean giving up her magic and her career just as her mother Isobel did unhappily to marry her father. Devastated, she told him she had changed her mind and left for London. On a lighter note, its also noted on Pottermore that consummate badass McGonagall played Quidditch for Gryffindor during her student years: but a nasty foul during the finals match between Gryffindor and Slytherin left her injured, and also left her with an avid hatred for the Slytherin Quidditch team, manifested in her support of Harry and the Gryffindor team during his student years.
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After graduating from Hogwarts, an eighteen-year-old Minerva McGonagall spent a summer at her family home in the Scottish Highlands before moving on to work with the Ministry of Magic, and, there, she fell in love with a handsome and charming Muggle farm hand by the name of Dougal McGregor. McGregor eventually proposed to her, but she found that she couldnt marry him because it would mean giving up her magic and her career just as her mother Isobel did unhappily to marry her father. Devastated, she told him she had changed her mind and left for London. On a lighter note, its also noted on Pottermore that consummate badass McGonagall played Quidditch for Gryffindor during her student years: but a nasty foul during the finals match between Gryffindor and Slytherin left her injured, and also left her with an avid hatred for the Slytherin Quidditch team, manifested in her support of Harry and the Gryffindor team during his student years.