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[a.n: as some people will notice, this story was previously called Harry Potter and the Muggleborn Marriage Act. Drop on by my profile and answer in the poll which title you like more!]
[The first parts of this are articles from the front page of the Daily Prophet. Well, I hope that you will enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing this…]
Prologue:
Harry, Ron, and Hermione decided to return for their last year of school after the Great War.
A stack of newspaper clippings were neatly piled in the corner of Hermione's dormitory in Gryffindor Towers on one particular Sunday. The now nineteen year old Head Girl, twenty if you count her third year, walked over to the stack and started to pick through them. It appeared that she was looking for something in particular as she began to rifle through. Finally, she pulled out a small bag at the bottom of the stack. It was filled with newspaper articles, obviously important. She pulled out the first one, the oldest one.
A dark looking picture of Voldemort was shown. Beneath was:
Evening Prophet
He's Gone. Wizarding World At Peace
Saturday, May 2nd
At about 8:00 a.m. May 2nd, the many eyewitnesses report that Lord Voldemort was vanquished by none other than Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived.
Harry Potter reportedly 'vanished' early last summer with his friends, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, in search of Lord Voldemort's hidden Horcuxes (soul holders/dividers) as to destroy them. Potter is quite modest on this subject.
"I never could have done any of this without my friends-," Potter said as he walked away from the reporters…
Here the article was cut off. She set this aside and moved through to another one.
A sneering picture of the Potions Master shadowed the top of the article, although looking slightly paler than he usually did...
Snape Found…ALIVE!
Tuesday, May 5th
Early yesterday morning, Monday, May 4th, Harry Potter and a crew of Healers, Aurors, and, of course, his friends went in search of the body of Severus Snape, the under cover spy for the Order of the Phoenix as a Death Eater.
All charges against him had been lifted. They went to the last place he was seen alive, and where he supposedly died, the Shrieking Shack.
When they arrived, they found Mr. Snape propped up in a chair, awake and very clearly alive. He was quickly healed and sent to St. Mungo's and has fully recovered.
He will begin teaching again when Hogwarts reopens again in the fall…
She set the clipping aside, still quite perturbed as to the exacts of her professor's survival as she picked up a final piece of paper, the ink still dark on the article print of the rather recent clipping.
Heroes Have to Go to School Too
Sunday, July 19th
Our three heroes, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, are returning for their last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and said they felt that they needed to go for 'personal reasons'…
She smiled and put the final clipping down, straightening the stack a bit as she heard her friends call for her.
"Mione! Get down here! We're starving!" called Ron.
"I'm coming! Patience is a virtue you know," she replied as she started down the stairs, grabbing her bag on the way out.
New Author's note[6/19/11]: I wrote this first chapter when I was 11 and I am now 16. I must admit that my writing it a bit lacking in these beginning chapters in comparison to what it is now. I implore you to bear through it until I have the chance to rewrite those chapters.
NEW New Author's Note [10/15/12]: So I'm seventeen now and I have still yet to completely rewrite this story but you know what? I love this story! I've been working on it on and off for almost eight years now. EIGHT YEARS! And I know you'd expect it'd be done but obviously it's not but please, give my story a chance. Yes, admittedly it's kind of boggy getting through the first several thousand words. Yes, it's a quick read. But I hope to show you just how much I love this story and this couple as you read this story.
Cheer's to whatever you choose,
NEW NEW New Author's Note [4/4/13]: Wow, sooooo, I have a lot to edit on this story... :/ I hope you all see enough potential to stick through this story. It honestly gets better the further in you get :) lol