Title: When she married the teacher
Author: The Scrybe
Email: M
Fandom: Harry Potter
Summary: "The board of governors has already taken great grievances to prevent the Marriage Act from being passed by the Ministry, although, it can no longer be prevented." The marriage law is in affect.
Warnings: None yet.
An excerpt from Case study: 17479
The first squib documented in history, albeit muggle, was a London writer by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. She was not born of non magic ability, yet, she lost all ability to perform magic later in life. The notes to her experiment were found later published in classic muggle fiction. Taking a hybrid, mountain troll giant, she proceeded to document its progress under the Imperious curse. The "monster" as she referred to it, was quite thick, and didn't follow instruction productively, so Shelly, in means of a greater science, began to work with the monster. The experiment went awry, however, when the "monster" began to block the Imperious curse. Soon after, the monster supposedly killed Shelly. After further investigation, the monster severed brain tissue in Shelly's head which was later proven to be linked to magical capability. Shelly, in all haste, fled to the muggle world and began writing literature to earn a living. Thus, she wrote Frankenstein an account, although exaggerated, of her scientific findings. Shelly replaced the names of all magical counterparts, and told the story through a muggle scientist and his assistant. The "monster" as she described it, was born from various appendages from human corpses, and not brewed in a magical creature fertilization clinic like it had originally been. It has been proven that the remaining of her time line succumbed to the squib like behavior, having no magical ability at all.
The second, more widely known squib of the time was Emilio Magellan, son of the muggle who circumnavigated the world. The young inventor was born a half blood to Morgana Wise, mistress to Ferdinand Magellan. From a young age, Emilio presented a scientific calling, first beginning with potion brewing. By the age of ten, Magellan had produced more than twenty potions for many common problems in the magical world. By the age of twenty however, he began dabbling in wandless magic and the dark arts. Magellan sewed his wand into his wrist by the age of twenty-five, attaching it to the nerves in his left arm. With a wave of his hand, he was said to have been able to perform some of the most complex spells and without the aid of spoken incantation. At the age of thirty-two, he bore his first son, Argellus Magellan, who was born a squib. Emilio's experiment with his in-body wand proved the answer to his son's non magical capabilities due to the fact that the magic, which by that time, coursed through his veins, had corrupted his seed. In a fit of rage, Magellan ripped the wand from his wrist thus removing the veins that were attached to it. He was said to have bled to death. His wife and son were said to have lived in a muggle town somewhere in America.
As time progressed, and more pureblood families were established, the families began inbreeding. Some examples of well-known pureblood families today include: The Malfoys, Snapes, Crabbes, Goyles, Parkinsons, Bulstrodes, Weasleys, Blacks, and the Lestranges. Birth betrothals became normal in many of these families. Soon enough, because of marriage to immediate family members or the like, miscarriages and squib like behavior have been evident. Many of the families can no longer produce magical heirs, and those who can are likely to bare a mentally ill or squib child. Within the investigation, the only remaining witches and wizards of the future will be those who were born to muggle born parents. The depletion of the wizarding world has already taken affect. Half bloods show no signs of squib accumulation, however, it is in our best interests to keep the muggleborns and purebloods from mating with the halfblood population as it may result in more squib births from ancestor relations.
End of excerpt
MoM
Ministry of Magic official documentation
The board of governors has already taken great grievances to prevent the Marriage Act from being passed by the Ministry, although, it can no longer be forestalled. If no actions are taken against the failure to conceive magical children, the Wizarding world will cease to exist. The terms of the Marriage Act are as follows:
1. Muggleborn males and females have an obligation to the wizarding community to marry on, or following their seventeenth birthday.
2. Pureblood families may petition any muggleborn individual, and must receive an answer in two weeks following the petition.
3. A muggleborn may only deny a petition if he or she accepts another from a different Pureblood family.
4. Due to the onslaught of the law, Purebloods may be petitioned, but may decline any petition, even if they do not have another that follows.
5. All pureblood families with eligible children must participate as well as all muggleborn witches and wizards.
6. The cut off age to pureblood males and females is unlimited, however, the cut off age for muggleborn men and women is fifty. All starting ages for pureblood and muggleborn children is still seventeen.
7. If needed, the muggleborn female of the marriage may be forced by their pureblood partner to desist from all strenuous activity, i.e., schooling, work, in order to rear the children.
8. Each partnership must produce both a female and male heir. If the male counterpart cannot conceive either of the two, he may settle for two of the same sex.
9. All those who cannot conceive are exempt from the act.
10. None of the produced children may be given up for adoption. Failure to adhere to this will result in imprisonment. If by any chance, a family cannot care for the children financially, the Ministry will support all income and necessities. If the problem be not of sane mind, children will be moved to the family's closest living relative for rearing.
11. Magical fertilization cannot be used at any time during the marriage binding. The effects of magical fertilization are unsupported and under documented. Studies have shown the number of squibs were higher than in traditional child making.
12. Marriages are life pending. It cannot be broken, unless by death. Failure to acknowledge this rule will result in immediate imprisonment.
13. To ensure that the couple is copulating on a weekly basis, without contraceptives (both muggle and magical), a binding ritual is stated along with the marriage ceremony. Each couple is then regulated by the Ministry of Magic on a monthly evaluation. The first night of marriage must involve intercourse to seal the magical contract. If this isn't followed, the couple will be fined, and will be forced to engage in sexual activity with an audience. Along with the clauses in the binding contract there is a section (section four article seven) which states: Failure to conform to fidelity will result in painful blisters in the genital area. Infidelity is now a crime. Those married will be fined and imprisoned.
14. If any witch or wizard flees the country while the law is in affect, (pureblood or muggleborn) they will automatically suffer the symptoms of one of the documented unforgivable curses. Failure to comply will result in the immediate imprisonment of all relatives known to the escapee.
15. All sexual intercourse habits will be frozen for anyone during the time of petitioning. If a witch or wizard is found to have had sexual intercourse, they will be fined and imprisoned until a petitioner is found and selected for them.
16. Parents of all petitioners and those being petitioned cannot accept nor decline for their children. Thus, they can neither petition for their children.
17. If by any chance a squib is conceived by those in affect by this law, the marriage can be appealed, and the squib will be sent to live with a muggle family. Both parties of the marriage will then be reassigned new partners.
18. Magical spells and potions may not be used on a child at any time. This includes potions for twins, triplets, boys or girls and the like. Magic used on children during their time in the womb may have dire consequences.
We must regretfully say that the Ministry of Magic is somewhat biased in the favor of Pureblood families. This is because without their consent and help to the ministry, we too would cease to exist. This is not an act of foul play, however please acknowledge the strain we have been put under to ensure the posterity of the wizarding community. Hopefully, the new generation of magical children will prosper, due to the passing of this law, and that we may never have to propose such an Act in the future of wizarding kind.
Professor Severus Snape looked to the document he clutched vehemently in his hand. "How dare they!" he thought as he stood from his desk. Biased, yea they were, due to the fact that many of the Pureblood families mentioned in the study are on the board of governors. He should have been exempt, but he wasn't, he had to find a way to appeal. He sat down, opening the package that came along with the official documents. There were no less than forty blank petition notices. He sat back in his chair, this was going to be harder than he thought. He had to speak with the Headmaster.
At the opposite end of the school, Hermione Granger sat on her bed shocked into silence. She had learned only weeks before of her adult status. Do to the use of her timeturner, she had aged dramatically. She had turned seventeen at the beginning of the school term, which made her apart of the marriage act. She sat for quite some time, wondering who she could petition. She wish she had a way to appeal the law, it was the only time she wished she were barren. She sat, on the verge of tears, thinking that the word pureblood was synonymous with evil. She finally came to her senses and walked swiftly from her room and to the Headmaster's office.
They came to the gargoyle at precisely the same time. Hermione went to say the password, but Professor Snape stopped her.
"Miss Granger, I believe your prefect duties will have to wait, I need to speak with the Headmaster. Do reschedule."
"I beg your pardon, but this issue cannot wait."
"You may beg for my pardon all you wish, you will not receive it. But I must insist that your petty matters with Potter and Weasley can wait, I have pressing matters to attend to."
"As do I Professor."
Neither of them noticed in their bickering the headmaster coming down from his office.
"I do believe both of your matters are important. Severus, Hermione, do come with me."
They followed him up the spiraling staircase and into his office, Hermione sitting in the seat directly in front of the headmaster's desk. Severus, on the other hand, chose to stand.
"I understand that you have both come to me in regard to the Marriage Act that was passed some two days ago. I must inform you that I myself agree with the act."
"What?" they said in unison.
"The past few years the number of magical children attending Hogwarts has indeed lowered. I can only tell you that the information you read in the official document are true, and that there is a decline in the number of magical children being conceived. I apologize, but you two are not exempt from this law, and neither are the other children here who are of age. That is all I will say. I hope you take your choices into consideration, and I wish you the best of luck."
A/N: Ah, my take on this Wiktt challenge. Yes, I too have fallen in step with the rest, I thought I'd give it a try. I am trying to keep the characters in character, so please, inform me if I am not. I take suggestions and correction (and of course I also accept praise and flames--flames are only welcome in the form of constructive criticism). Please, don't forget to R & R.