The Marriage Law

Title: The Marriage Law
Rating: R
Summerhe Mhe 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 Fifteen: The Rescue and Godric’s Visit.
;As ;As the month of March came to an end Hermione wondered what Ivy was doing and if she was all right. She watched the Aurors leaving along with Snape and Bill Weasley. They were going to get her back from Voldemort and she prayed that they would be all right. Ivy meanwhile was scared that she was going to die. She knew that Voldemort didn’t care about her life or the life of her child. He wanted to make sure that Lucius got his revenge.

The door opened and a short wizard entered. She knew whom he was and she was going to tell Fudge when she got out that she had seen Peter.
“ My Master will see you shortly,” he told her, putting some food on the table. When he had left she ate as much as she could. She didn’t have time to test and see if it might be poison, she would just have to trust him. She laughed at herself for thinking that she could trust a man that lied about his heritage.

The group appeared outside where they knew that she would be. Bill was worried that Ivy was already dead and that her body would appear someplace.
“ We must get in and get out,” Snape told them.” If we waste time we could die.” They all nodded that they understood and then they headed inside. At the same time Ivy was brought in to face Lord Voldemort. He got up and looked at her.
“ Well Mrs. Malfoy I have finally caught you, of course you knew that Voldemort would always find you in the end.” She glared at him.
“ You need to get over yourself Tom Riddle.” Voldemort stepped back glaring at her. Suddenly he slapped her across the face.
“ Never call me that again.”

She smiled at him while a trickle of blood escaped the side of her mouth. He looked mad at her and that’s when she noticed Lucius Malfoy looking at him oddly. She knew that he was working out why his master would slap her for using a name. She looked at him.
“ Don’t you know that before he was Voldemort he was Tom Riddle? His muggle father abandoned him before he was born. He’s been wanting revenge for that since he could remember.”
“ Don’t listen to her, I’m a Pureblood, and I don’t care about a bunch of lies.” She sneered at him.
“ Oh ya I would lie, does a Gryffindor lie to someone Lucius. I never lied to you, and I’m not lying now.”

Voldemort raised his wand again and pointed it at her. Suddenly Lucius sprang forward and came between her and Voldemort.
“ Leave her alone,” he yelled. “ I never thought that I would do this, but your not a Pureblood, I don’t know why I didn’t listen to Harry when he tried to tell us the truth.” Voldemort looked at him with those cold eyes.
“ Your like them all,” he yelled. “ I am going to give you revenge, and you question me.”
“ Please just leave her alone, she has done nothing to you.” Ivy was shocked that her husband was defending her. He pointed his wand at him and suddenly he was on the ground withering in pain.
“ Leave him alone,” she shouted. She was just about to launch herself at him when there was a sudden popping sound. Several Aurors appeared and as they launched their spells at Voldemort he disappeared.

Lucius gasped as the curse was lifted and just as she kissed him on the forhead he fainted.
“ Don’t leave me,” she cried. Snape checked for a pulse and finding one they headed back to Hogwarts.
“ What happened to him?” Madam Pomfrey asked when they arrived. Snape told her about Voldemort placing the curse on him for defending his wife. Madam Pomfrey tended to his wounds and when he was stable she closed the curtains.

“ Will he be alright?” Moody asked. The nurse shot him a look that would make a dragon run. “ Look we need to take him back to Azkaban.”
“ That would be unwise right now,” came the voice of Professor Dumbledore. Moody looked at him and then the Headmaster continued. “ He has defended a Muggleborn witch, in the eyes of Tom Riddle he is a trader. His life is in just as much danger as is Ivy.”

“ So you would allow him to remain here at the school, when he should be locked away.” The Headmaster nodded. Moody stormed out and disappeared. Dumbledore didn’t know if he would see his old friend, but he hoped that he would understand that he had his reasons.
“ How long will he be here?”
“ I don’t know,” the nurse told him. “ I don’t know if he’s ever been subjected to the curse before.” Dumbledore thought about this, and decided to ask Snape himself. He said goodbye to the nurse and headed down to the dungeons.

Professor Snape was sipping his tea when the door opened. He knew it was Dumbledore because of how he walked.
“ Hello Headmaster,” Snape called setting down his cup.
“ Severus,” Dumbledore said shortly. “ I’ve come here to ask you if your friend has ever been subjected to the Curciaus Curse?”
“ No, that was the first time.” Dumbledore nodded and then with a sweep of his robes he left, leaving Snape to his confused thoughts.

Dumbledore told the nurse what Snape had said. Madam Pomfrey figured that his body was reacting out of shock. Hermione looked at the wizard and shook her head. She remembered the first time that she had ever met him. He had insulted Arthur about his job and family. Now he was just as weak as some of his victims. April started at Hogwarts and the chill that had been around since October disappeared leaving the grounds basked in warmth. Hermione decided to pay her husband a visit. She was now a month along and her morning sickness though not gone had lessened abit. Snape was doing some grading when she entered.

“ I thought that you would be in the Library?” He asked.
“ I couldn’t consentrate,” she admitted. She took her robes off and he knew what she wanted. She walked over and kissed him causing him to drop his quill.
“ I want you,” he told her when he could speak. She smiled at him and then led him to their quarters. Meanwhile Madam Pomfrey was busy wipping Lucius forhead when he woke up. He grabbed her and then seeing that it was only the nurse released his hand.
“ Sorry.” She didn’t say anything just left. He slowly got up and noticed that Harry was standing there. He was wearing scarlet and gold robes and a long sword was hanging by his side.

“ Long time no see Lucius,” he told him. His voice not the same as the last time that he had heard it. The soft clanking noise sounded unlike the shoes that he normally heard. He noticed that they were boots. He walked up to him and sneered at him.
“ What do you want Potter?”
“ Who says that I’m Harry,” he said. “ I came around to see how you feel being lied to by the heir of Slytherin.”
“ And why should you care?” He spat.
“ Harry Potter is my heir and therefore my responsibility.” Lucius looked at him and knew that something was not right about this. And then suddenly it hit him, this boy was telling the truth, he was not Potter but someone else.
“ Who are you?”
“ Godric Gryffindor.” Lucius eyes widened. Godric sat down and studied the man. “ You are very lucky that your alive, of course the fates had their reasons why you live.”
“ What do you mean?” He shot him a look.
“ I’m the Heir of Gryffindor, and the child that is to be born is the Heir of Hufflepuff. Hermione Snape is the Heir of Ravenclaw, a Pureblood.”
“ So my child is going to be the Heir of Hufflepuff.” Godric nodded.
“ The child will be a girl, and she will be the essanse of the house. Make sure that she grows up with those qualities and you will see her reach the glory that she is destined to reach.”

“ But what about all the things that I’ve done. I have done so many things and I don’t think that I’ve earned the right to have such a wonderful gift. My Narissia disappeared and I know that she’s dead.”
“ The single act that you have done will repay all the bad things that you have done in your life. You had not control over your parents, but you did have choices. I believe that it’s time to make the right ones.” He looked at the wizard that had founded Gryffindor house.
“ Then I will do my best.” Godric smiled at him.
“ Then that is all that I can ask of you,” he told him. “ My heir is destined to do great things, he just needs to get over himself and accept it.”

Lucius laughed at those words. Then the wizard left, leaving him to think about what he had said. Ten minutes later Arthur Weasley and Professor Dumbledore appeared.
“ Well I see that you’re awake,” Arthur told him. “ Are you sure that your making the right choice.”
“ Arthur I know that I am. I feel that since he knows that Voldemort is not whom he is made out to be then he will beable to help us. Not to the extent that the person we know can do, but he still will be helpful.” Arthur nodded.
“ If you helps us out, I will allow you to return to Malfoy manor and live with your wife and child. If you don’t then you will head back to Azkaban, do you understand me?” Lucius nodded. Dumbledore smiled at him and then Arthur left.

“ Arthur is the new Minister of Magic,” Dumbledore informed him. Lucius looked confused, what happened to Fudge. Then it hit him, Fudge was dead, thanks to him.
“ When will I beable to help?” Lucius asked.
“ Soon, but not right now,” he told him. “ First spend time with your wife, she needs you.” The young wizard nodded and the Headmaster nodded.

A/N: I’m going back and changing Ivy’s age to the same that it is in the Order of The Phoniex. That way it makes sense. To everyone Lucius first wife is dead, and Lucius is going to find out. I thought that it would be a good idea to have Godric visit him.