Legally Binding

Disclaimer: I own nothing; Rawlings owns all characters. I’m just playing with them for a while and having a little fun. No money is being made. And I thought I’d add my own little twist to the marriage law challenge.


Chapter 1


The crowd had been gathering for some time before Gringotts. Cornelius Fudge, ‘Minister of Magic’, stood on the steps. Every wizarding paper from around Europe was now ensconced in front of him, taking pictures. The crowd was growing restless wanting to know what was taking place now.

Harry Potter, ‘The-Boy-Who-Lived’, had defeated Voldemort at the end of his sixth year at Hogwarts, along with several of his friends. Ron Weasley was standing beside him, along with a brown haired young lady, Hermione Granger. The three of them were seated at a table watching with amusement at the crowd. Today they had made a trip to Diagon Alley to get their school supplies for their up coming last year of school.

Fudge raised his hand, and a silent hush fell across the crowd. “I have called this press conference to announce a new law.”

Whispers could be heard going through the crowd, a new law. This had set precedence because every witch and wizard had been allowed to vote whether their world accepted new laws or not.

“This new law concerns our survival. It has been brought to my attention some time ago that our world will diminish if we do not get some new blood into our most noble of wizarding families.”

Harry snorted. “New blood. Fudge needs a whole new brain.”

Ron laughed right along with Harry. Hermione scowled at them. “Hush! I want to hear this.”

Fudge continued going on about how the most noble families are starting to come about with problems. Children are being born with not so much as a good brain now, and how flaws in family lines are now starting to spring up. Fudge started pointing out how different families had interbred so much so that now the children that are being born in this new generation are not being born with fully functioning organs. The longer he continued the more the crowd began to understand that their had to be something done in order to save them from their fatal error in judgment.

Hermione sat appalled at hearing these things, that children being born into these families had flaws, so much so that it was affecting the whole wizarding community. What Fudge said next brought about a new horror to Hermione that she never would have dreamed to ever consider what the fix of this problem could mean, and to her it made sense but it left a bitter taste in her mouth.

“The new law is known as: The Marriage Law. This law now is enacted as of today. Any female Muggleborn witch and any male Muggleborn wizard are hereby decreed to wed into a pureblood family. Also any half-Muggleborn with one parent being that of a Muggle will be under this law also. And anyone who was born from a Muggleborn witch or wizard. This will insure that new blood will be brought into our society. This law will remain in effect until the problem has righted itself.”

Hermione sat still; her heart was pounding in her chest. She looked over to Harry, Harry had dropped the juice he was drinking and it clattered to stone pavement beneath the table. Both of them locked eyes. This law not only included Muggleborns, it included up to Harry’s birth percentage as well, even though he wasn’t but also maybe a quarter Muggleborn.

“Bloody Hell!” Ron stated looking back and forth to his two best friends.

“They can’t do this!” Harry growled, “I just now got my life free from Voldemort.”

Harry jumped up impulsively and stormed over to Fudge as questions from the crowd kept roaring up to Fudge. Camaras kept clicking away. Ron and Hermione ran right after him, knowing this was not going to be good.

Harry had a set snarl on his face as he rounded up the steps flanked on either side by Ron and Hermione trying to hold him back as they caught up to him. Harry roared over the crowd. “What the bloody hell do you think you are doing Fudge?”

Fudge turned and looked at the wizarding world’s savior and the wrath that was in his eyes. “This doesn’t concern you Mr. Potter. It is rather touching you want to help your young female friend but the law has been passed.”

“Doesn’t concern me?” Harry roared. “But it does concern me. My mother was Muggleborn you blithering idiot.”

A hush fell over the crowd and pictures were snapped as quickly as they could be. Hermione palled at the implication Harry just stated a fact that even the Minister of Magic had failed to grasp about Harry. She could see in his eyes that he had no clue that Harry had been born from a Muggleborn.

“Oh bloody hell!” Fudge went ashen at what had just been made public knowledge.

Harry glared as picture after picture was taken of him along with Hermione and Ron. Hermione desperately pulled at Harry and hissed in his ear.

“You just put yourself on the auction block Harry. Let’s get out of here.”

To the indignation of Harry, he allowed his friends to drag him away. Questions after questions flooded after him. People started blocking ever means of escape, Harry was going more withdrawn with each passing minute as people kept pressing closer and closer to the three huddled together. Ron and Hermione with both their wands out trying to make an escape route.

Black robes swirled about in the middle of the tight circle. “Of all the…Potter! I can’t believe I’m saving you again.” Severus Snape cast a spell around them that would block anyone from coming closer as he took out a ordinary necklace and thrust it at the trio. “Touch it all of you.”

After doing so Severus pointed his wand at the necklace and said the spell, the trio vanished just as the wall that the crowd was pushing against vanished. The roar of the crowd grew to an angry mob seeing the most prized wizard of the wizarding world was no longer in their clutches and Severus Apparated away.