Which was true. But the day they came to her was the same day it was announced to the public, in the form of a gossip column article written by Lavender Brown. The day before that, she discovered that it wasn’t the higher ups in the ministry who had proposed the marriage bill, it had been her own two best friends. That seemed especially cruel to her. Tell her about the bill they had proposed to potentially destroy her life, the same day Ron's fiance told the rest of the world. She wondered how much time she had wasted on them. How much she may have lost.