Law 98074

Marriage law. Based on WIKTT rules... I am years behind the 8 ball but the challenge is open till 2014!

First ever marriage law...I hope you can all stick with me through the rough patches.

HG/SS

She read the letter she has just opened, mouth agape. The cold and long forgotten toast in her left hand, letter in her right and her throat had just dropped into her stomach. Her lungs felt like they had shrunk, making air intake even harder than it should have been. Her brain was trying to take in what she has just read, running a mile a minute, she was sure this was not true.

She closed her eyes and shook her head, thinking perhaps she had read wrong, but the letter stayed exactly the same.

Miss Hermione Jean Granger,

We are writing to let you know the law just passed by Ministry, law 98074 passed yesterday at 6 pm exactly, applies to you. All muggle born Witches and Wizards are to marry either pure blood or half blood wizards. You being of muggle born descent this applies to you.

Any courters wishing to pursue a marriage with you are to contact you via owl and put forward a contract for your hand in marriage. You must then choose which suitor you wish to marry and send all contracts through to the ministry. You have exactly one month from the date of this letter to find a suitable partner. If you refuse, your wand will be snapped and your memory Obliviated and you will be outcast back into the main stream muggle community.

Have a lovely day

Marriage Relations Department, Ministy of Magic.

She weighed her options, marry or be an outcast without even a faint memory of the past decade and or so. It could not be that bad, right? At least she would not have to marry someone she did not want to.

That then brought her to the next problem, who in hell would want her, Hermione Granger? She did not exactly have the male community banging down the front doors of Hogwarts to pursue her.

Dropping the cold, hard toast back onto the plate before her she folded the letter and stuffed it into a pocket of her bag. Back at Hogwarts after the Second war, Hermione had decided to go back for her seventh and final year. Harry and Ron had gone to train as Aurors, specially allowed in after their hand in the war without obtaining their last grades needed.

Hogwarts was empty nowadays, many killed and many not willing to send their children back, instead opting to home school them. Draco Malfoy was also one to come back, very quiet now days and not very out spoken at all, he usually kept to himself. No longer was he flanked by his cronies where ever he went.

Slowly getting to her feet and hauling her heavy book bag over her shoulder, she cast a quick glance to the head table. Severus Snape dropped the Daily Prophet he had been reading and eyeing her for a moment. His gaze followed her until she was no longer in sight then he looked back down to the Prophet with the long list of witches and Wizards to be wed, there front and centre was her name.

Severus, having survived Nagini's bite, was back at Hogwarts once again teaching Potions. Slughorn stepped down after the war and headed back into retirement. He was not sure who he had to thank for being alive today. He had a Beazor rammed down his throat and was petrified to stop the poison running its course through his body any further. The Beazoar, although not lifesaving, had helped to absorb some of the reptiles poisonous venom until help could arrive. He had spent months in St Mungo's under the watchful eyes of the best medi-witches in the world.

It was a long, slow and rough road to his recovery, even now there on and off days as to how he felt. Some night he would wake in a cold sweat and the site where the fangs had penetrated would swell and blister. Some days he would feel dizzy and uneasy, something he had learnt to live with. He had come to terms with never being back to full health. Some days he wished he could hex whoever it was who had aided him first at the scene, without them he would be peacefully dead right now.

His mind went into overdrive; he had always admired the girl. She was smart and not too bad on the eyes. He was so terribly lonely and ready to start a new life but would being forced to wake up next to Hermione Granger every morning really be the solution to his loneliness? With her know-it-all attitude and "I am always right" air about her, he was sure he would want to shoot himself in the head before a total one week of marriage had been up.

Never the less, perhaps he would send her an owl, test the waters and see where it leads; after all, there was no way in hell she would pick him. Not the evil, menacing, Potions Master with narcissistic tendencies.

A/N: First chapter- yay. Hope you all like it! Please review...Pretty pretty please :D

A/N2: I have edited a few things. First off, due to popular demand, I changed the whole Nagini was not poisonous to she was, of course this has changed the first chapter and you may like to re-read it eventually so you know what is happening in later chapters.

Second, thank you Heidi. I would PM you but you signed as a guest, I have changed those few things you pointed out.

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