The Marriage Law

Title: The Marriage Law
Rating: R
Summery: The Ministry publicly tells the Wizarding world that the pureblooded families are in danger of dying out. To save the Wizarding world they pass the Marriage Law. How will a certain Muggle-born witch take it?
Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter Thirteen: Becoming an Animagus.

On Wednesday’s History of Magic Professor Binns talked about the Werewolf convention of 1845. Hermione almost laughed herself silly thinking about what they had to eat. She was having a hard time these days controlling her laugher.
“ Is there something funny about my words Mrs. Snape?” Professor Binns asked. Hermione shook her head still giggling her head off.
“ What’s wrong with you?” Harry asked when the bell had rung.
“ I don’t know, I just can’t control my laugher sometimes,” she explained.

Harry shook his head at her and they walked toward their next class Double Advance Potions. When they arrived Professor Snape was waiting for them. Harry told him that his wife was having a hard time controlling her fits of giggles.
“ It’s all part of being Pregnant,” she explained. “ I don’t want to think of what else is going to pop up.” Snape had barely time to think about this when his Slytherin students appeared.

When everyone was filed in he waved his wand and his notes appeared. He turned to them and then spoke.
“ This is the Animagus Draught, when brewed it will allow the drinker to transform for a whole hour into what animal that they want. I have feathers, hair from a lot of different animals. Now I must warn you that if you don’t brew this right you will be poisoned.” He motioned for them to start and soon the sounds of chopping and adding was the only noise that the students were making.

Snape watched his wife brew like the master that he knew one day she would become. Snape didn’t know what the future held for them, but he hoped that their childs future would be a lot better then theirs. He kept thinking about this until the hour was up and it broke him from his daydreaming.
“ Clean up,” he snapped. The students cleaned up at once and then he came around and had them add eather hair, or feather to their potion. Hermione added a phoenix feather that Snape had gotten from Fawks and had transformed into a beautiful female phoenix. Snape thought that his wife was now ten times the lovely creature that she already was.

When the bell rang Snape took the assortment of animals somewhere so that the potion could wear off. He took Hermione back to their quarters so that she could change back in privet. He almost hated to think of never seeing her change into this; maybe becoming an Animagus would be in Hermione’s near future.
“ Well how did it feel?” Snape asked when Hermione had transformed back.

“ It felt odd, but nice,” she told him. Snape wanted to tell her that he liked her like that, but he didn’t know how she would take it. “ So what is the next potion that were going to be brewing?” Snape smirked.
“ You’re going to have to wait until Monday’s Advance Potions class to know that.” Hermione laughed at Snape and then they both headed off to dinner.

That night at dinner Ron was telling Harry about his idea to become an Animagus. He had gotten the idea from Sirius, and of course from what Harry had told him about his hour being a swan. Hermione thought about the look that her husband had given her when he had seen her as a phoenix. She knew that he had liked it, maybe becoming one would not be such a bad idea. She went back eating and as she ate the more she wanted to become one. By the end of dinner she had her mind made up, she was going to become an Animagus. She smiled at the thought of his face when she transformed.

That night she told her husband that she wanted to go to bed because she wanted to get a head start on studying.
“ Come on Hermione the finals are not for another three months,” Snape told her.
“ Be as it may dear, I want to get a head start.” Snape looked at her and then deciding that he might get rewarded for being understanding allowed her to get ready for bed and fall asleep. Snape joined her and soon sleep claimed him as well. The next day Hermione left and headed to the Library. She pulled down several books on how to become an Animagus. She checked them out, and Madam Pince gave her an odd look.
“ I’m reading them for some background reading,” she lied. The Librarian just looked at her and then taking the books she left.

Hermione sat down and started to read. The book alone was fasinating, it showed the different kinds of animals that one could turn into, the Unicorn and Phoenix her personal favorites. She looked at an interesting pharagrah.

“ The first step to becoming an Animagus is the desire to become one. There are hundreds of animals that you can choose from. Do you want to have four legs, web feet, or no feet? Once you have the desire to become one and you then decide what animal you want to become, then the hardest part and that is transforming. This area is the one that is controlled by The Ministry of Magic. Since it is, they keep tabs on those that are trying to do it. The smarter you are the faster it will come to you.”

Hermione looked up from the book. True she had the desire to become one, and she knew what she wanted to become. She wondered if she would be smart enough to do it, or mess up. Well stiffing her resolve. She was the heir of Ravenclaw and she never backed from a challenge. She wanted her form to be useful to the side of good, and so she decided to turn into a unicorn, a phoenix, and a dragon. She then looked down at the book and started to read again.

“ The third step in becoming an Animagus is the actual transformation. It’s advisable to start off small, like changing her hand into a claw for example. You must focus on the will and desire to turn your hand into something that is not human. When you are able to do this and change it back then you can move onto your feet, but be for warned, if you can’t change your hand back from a claw to a human hand then you won’t beable to change back fully and that’s where you’ll get into trouble.”

Hermione decided to start off small; she decided to try turning her hand into a Phoenix wing. She focused her mind on changing her hand, making it become feathery. Suddenly she felt an odd sensation start and when it had stopped her hand had changed into a large wing. Stunning scarlet and gold feathers were sticking out. It wasn’t as scary as she thought it would be. She again focused and it changed at once. The second hand was a breeze as the first one and changing it back was just as easy. She decided to give her feet a try and then she would take a break.

However by the time she had managed to transform her feet into claws it was lunchtime. She changed them back and then hurried off.
“ So what were you doing in the Library?” Harry asked.
“ Oh doing some research,” she told him. “ I’m doing something for my husband.”
“ That’s great, I hope that it works out.”
“ Thanks.” She hurried up eating and then she left.

For two weeks she worked on her transformation. By the end of the two weeks she could get everything, but the size right. She needed to shrink down to the size of Fawks; a giant bird was something that would be out of place at Hogwarts. Finally as the month of March ended she got it. She could transform into a Phoenix at will. The dragon and unicorn was easier then she thought. She guessed that once her mind was use to being an animal changing into one or more was a walk in the park. She returned her books and left, she had done it. Which proved only one thing, she was smarter then James and Sirius.

When Hermione returned home she saw her husband wearing his Deatheaters garb. The robes scared her, but she knew that he had to go. He turned to see her.
“ Hermione I have to go,” he told her. “ Now I don’t want you to leave the school, okay.” Hermione nodded and then she watched her husband disappear. She nealt down and started to pray, she wanted him back home safe and sound and she asked who ever was up there to protect him.

A few minutes later Snape appeared and bowed down to Voldemort.
“ My lord what is it that you need of me,” he asked. He didn’t say anything and then he pointed his wand.
“ Curico,” he cried. Snape started to scream his head off, after then minutes he removed his wand and Snape got up. “ I just wanted to make sure that you were still loyal to me, I heard that your married to the Mudblood bitch.”
“ It is not my fault, but Fudges.” Voldemort nodded.
“ That’s why were taking care of Fudge, but first I want you to get Lucius Malfoy of Azf Azkban. I need my best Deatheater by my side.”
“ Yes master,” Snape muttered. And he was told that he could leave.

When Snape returned Professor McGonagall brought him to the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey helped him the best that she could, and then she left him to rest it off. Professor Dumbledore was informed and he was worried about his friend, he was worried about everyone. The next day Hermione was informed that her husband was in the Hospital Wing, she rushed to be by his side.
“ Don’t worry he’ll make it,” Professor McGonagall told her. “ He has your love, and that’s what’s helping.” Hermione wanted to cry, but the tears refused to come out. She guessed that abit of Snape had gotten into her.

Two days later Snape was allowed to leave. He headed back to his dungeons and poured himself a large brandy. He needed to think; of course Albus Dumbledore wasn’t going to let him do that. He arrived right after he had po him himself the drink.
“ Severus how are you feeling?” He asked.
“ Well.” He replied shortly.
“ So what did Voldemort want?”
“ He told me that he knows that I’m married to Hermione, and he wants to kill Fudge. He also wants to bring Lucius back from Azkaban.” Dumbledore looked at him thoughtfully for a moment and then pulled out a piece of r. “r. “ What’s this?”

He handed Snape the paper, he read it and noticed that Lucius new wife was pregnant. He knew that this put her life in danger. He remembered her when he had been in school and knew how much Lucius had hated her. This baby was the result of a Lust Potion and not love. Voldemort would use this to kill her, so that he would be free to marry for a third time.
“ What do you want me to do?” Snape asked.
“ I already told Fudge that Ivy was in danger, and I need to make sure that she is brought here for safe keeping.”
“ Very well.” Dumbledore turned around to leave, but stop

“ We will defeat him,” he told the Potions Master. He left leaving Snape to his thoughts.

Ivy was very upset when she learned that Voldemort might want to harm her because she was now carrying a half-blooded child. They got her back to Hogwarts without running into any Deatheaters. Snape started to plan Malfoy’s escape, but first he had to know that he was going to be a father again. He wanted to see if his old friend would make the right choice, or if he was distined to make the wrong one. He quickly left Hogwarts and headed to Azkaban. Dumbledore didn’t say anything to him, just let him go.

When he appeared he was directed to Lucius cell. He opened the door and entered.
“ Well isn’t it my old friend,” Lucius spat at him. Snape looked at the man that was setting on the floor. He didn’t look like the person that he had grown up with. He looked like a shell of a man. “ So why are you here?”
“ I want to let you know that your wife is expecting,” he told him. He bent down and whispered in his ear that Voldemort was going to get him out. This seemed to make him happy. “ Voldemort wants to kill you wife, I just want to let you know that.” He didn’t say anything, and with a swish of his black cloak he was gone. It was now up to him.