Chapter 2: part 2
The week had been too fast for many people. Dumbledore a week later made the six and seventh years stay back once again. This time the house tables were not moved, they were asked to remain seated and wait for the post.
"So Harry, did you get the Veritaserum yesterday?" Ron asked.
"Yea and I told the truth, just have to wait for the letter to confirm mine and Ginny's engagement," Harry smiled holding Ginny's hand.
"What if they don't allow the marriage?" Ginny asked.
"I'll give up my magic," Harry said.
Everyone on the Gryffindor table looked at him.
"So would I," Ginny kissed him lightly.
"No they won't allow the boy who lived to do that, so they'll let you two get married," Hermione said.
"Fingers crossed," Harry said as the mail came.
The owls once again dropped the letters in front of the students. Everyone was frozen. Harry picked up his letter first.
Everyone in the hall watched him.
"Ginny," Harry smiled.
Ginny laughed and kissed him and then opened her letter, "Harry!"
Everyone else slowly opened theirs.
Hermione recalled her answers for the last part of the form:
Flashback
"Describe your perfect man, no more then hundred words," Hermione read to herself before starting to read,
My perfect man would have to be able to compete with me intellectually or at least keep up. I'd like a guy who's sweet even if he has a tough exterior. I want someone I can talk to, someone reliable. Looks to me isn't important but I don't want to be with a monster. I guess I want a soulmate, I don't know if you can find it through the marriage law but like I have a choice.
Hermione sighed, she knew she would never find her soulmate through this.
END OF FLASHBACK
Hermione opened her letter carefully:
Dear Miss Granger,
Your test results were very high, close to 100 . It has not been easy to pick your partner but we have chosen someone who fits your description of your 'ideal partner' and someone who can measure up to intellectually.
Your partner is also a Hogwarts student: Draco Lucius Malfoy.
You have no choice but to marry your partner. You must be engaged by the end of December and married by Easter, you must be pregnant latest by August 15. If you fail to meet any of the deadlines there will be severe consequences.
Thank you for your time and have a good married life.
Diana MacNewton
Deputy Minister of Magic
"NO!" Hermione gasped.
"Hermione what's wrong?" lavender asked. "Who did you get?"
"Malfoy!" Hermione said angrily looking over to the Slytherin table.
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At the Slytherin table Draco was thinking about his answers:
FLASHBACK
"Hundred words," Draco noted before he began to write.
A perfect woman for me would be someone who could challenge me, stand up to me. Not many women challenge me, they fall at my feet, I don't want that. I want someone who can think for herself but thinks about me as well.
This Marriage Law will never find her, so what is the point.
END OF FLASHBACK
Draco half expected a letter which would be a response to the last line of his answer but instead there was no mention of it in the letter.
Dear Mr Malfoy.
Your test results were very high, close to 100. It has not been easy to pick your partner but we have chosen someone who fits your description of your 'ideal partner' and someone who can measure up to intellectually.
Your partner is also a Hogwarts student: Hermione Jane Granger.
You have no choice but to marry your partner. You must be engaged by the end of December and married by Easter, you must be pregnant latest by August 15. If you fail to meet any of the deadlines there will be severe consequences.
Thank you for your time and have a good married life.
Diana MacNewton
Deputy Minister of Magic
"No fucking way!" Draco spat looking over to the Gryffindor table, his eyes met with Hermione's who glared at him with hate in her eyes. I can't marry her! My father, if he was alive, would never allow it! My mother might but no! Her! Out of all the people in the world! What are the fucking chances!"
"Who'd you get?" Pansy asked.
"Don't matter, who you got?" Draco asked.
"Ernie MacMillian," Pansy sighed.
"I got Luna Lovegood!" Blaise said shocked. "Lovegood!"
"I got Parvati Patil," Crabbe smiled.
"Padma," Goyle smirked. "Gryfindoor's but hot Gryfindoor's."
"Who'd you get Draco?" Blaise looked at Draco's letter. "Granger!"
Draco's head fell to the table. Why me?
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"Who did you get Lavender?" Parvati asked. "I got Crabbe! Crabbe!"
"I got Ron," Lavender sighed, "This is going to be awkward."
"Hermione who'd you get?" Ginny asked, now sitting beside Harry.
"Malfoy," Hermione whispered.
"WHAT?" Ron and Harry asked.
"No!" Ron said. "You can't! Malfoy!"
"I'm not happy about it either," Hermione sighed.
"On the plus side he is hot!" Parvati said.
"But he's Malfoy!" Hermione argued.
"Yea that's the down side," Lavender sighed.
"Neville who did you get?" Harry asked.
"Hannah Abbott," Neville smiled. "Dean got Claire Tisa."
"Who's that?" Harry asked.
"She's in my year," Ginny said. "Ravenclaw."
"Oh," Harry kissed Ginny.
"Silence everyone," Dumbledore said. "Now because of this law, there will be changes made. The first change, for breakfast there will no longer be house tables, for a few weeks there will be round tables, you are expected to eat with your partner, so you can get to know each other."
Everyone listened carefully.
"This does not mean houses will change, house points and Quidditch teams will not change. However this law is the reason there are no heads. There is no need for them this year. The third and most important change is living quarters. The ministry has stated that all students who are set to marry must live together."
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