PROLOGUE

To ensure the survival of the wizarding community it had been decreed that all Witches were to be married by the age of 21 and all Wizards by the age of 23. If the said witch or wizard had not found a partner by their birthday, the ministry would do it for them. The 'happy couples' were to immediately set about reproducing. If the witch did not fall pregnant within the first two years of their marriage, the couple must have it done magically. It was not a present process so most couples tended to avoid it.

To Hermione this was a curse. She was an intellectual, a workaholic. She had always intended to get married and have children eventually, but not before 25. True love would be involved of course. But first she must achieve something great, something worth remembering, like setting free all the house elves. She had not done this yet.

Hermione mentally cursed the day she had entered into the wizarding community.

It would not have been such a problem if Harry or Ron was alive, but they weren't. They had both died, along with many others in the last battle, a battle that had left the Wizarding community in despair. With so little magical people left, the ministry had felt the need to introduce this new law.

It was not really a problem for most people. Lavender had married Seamus at 18. Ginny had just got engaged to Dean. But there was no one for Hermione, and with only a month till her 21st birthday, she was searching desperately for someone to marry in hope she wouldn't be paired up by the ministry to a complete loser. However with the little luck she was having, she was beginning to feel resigned to her fate.

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The line thing is not working...

Anyway that was just a short prologue, the chapters will be longer. Tell me what you think. It's a pretty cliche story line but ah well.

Also I will most probably need a beta, so if anyone wants to be it, send me a message and you will be my new bestest friend. Otherwise I will just try spell/grammer check it all myself. (It's not my strong point).

It's funny I can always spot what is wrong in other people's stories but not in mine. So be as hard as you want when it comes to reviews, I appriciate that you are taking to time to help me become a better writer.

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