Title Snakes & Gossips / / / Rating T
Summary Blaise Zabini is resting in his mother's manor when he gets a letter from Gringotts stating that he is to marry somebody…today! What does he do when he finds out that he must marry the Gryffindor gossip named Parvati Patil….and his brother in law is Harry Potter!
Pairings Blaise/Parvati, Harry/Padma
Warnings Contains a small amount of swearing
A/N – Delphini Riddle is in the same year as Blaise and Harry in this, and had took her mother's maiden name for the purposes of this fic!
-Snakes & Gossips-
Zabini Manor, Stradello Giarola, Modena, Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
12th August 1998
Things were starting to look up for Blaise Zabini after the Battle of Hogwarts, the battle against the Dark Lord being one in which claimed several casualties, including his girlfriend, Daphne Greengrass.
He had tried to remain neutral, like his girlfriend at the time, during the war, but in the end, they had to make a decision, one which if they found themselves on the wrong side of, they would be the ones to first suffer the consequences.
Ultimately Blaise and Daphne decide that they would fight on the side of the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter, and Potter's girlfriend of three years, Padma Patil, the girl who Harry Potter had been dating ever since the Yule Ball when Potter had taken her sister, Parvati.
Blaise could not believe how Potter had taken the twin sister of his Yule Ball date, but on the other hand he could tell that Potter had a thing for brainy girls, having spent the last half of their Third-Year dating Delphini Black, a girl who had beaten out Hermione Granger, Daphne, Padma and Susan Bones in classes.
He knew that he would never get over the loss of Daphne, but on the other hand, he knew that he would have to find a partner somehow, especially as he was the last member of the Antica e Grande Casaof Zabini, an Ancient and Grand House, one of the remaining ruling families of the Parlamento Magico Italiano, the Italian Magical Parliament.
Sitting on the sofa, he saw an owl from the Gringotts branch in Rome fly into the room, dropping an envelope on his lap. Blaise opened it and read the letter, his reaction causing him to revert to his native Italian.
"Inferno cazzo! Devo sposare gli avanzi di Potter! Ciò significa che finirà per avere Potter come un cognato!" he shouted, getting annoyed with the letter. "Fucking hell! I have to marry Potter's leftovers! That means that I will end up having Potter as a brother in law!"
"BLAISE ANTONIO ZABINI! Come osi giurare in presenza di tua madre! Non voglio sentire più di quella lingua fallo in mia presenza altrimenti sarò fregare la bocca con il sapone. Capisci?" he heard his mother shout from the other end of the lounge, her playing of the piano being soft and careful as she caressed the keys. "How dare you swear in the presence of your mother! I do not want to hear any more of that foul language in my presence otherwise I will scrub your mouth out with soap. Do you understand?"
"Ma la madre, mi rifiuto di sposare Parvati Patil. Era scorso con Harry Potter e se diventa mio cognato, sto mettendo la mia famiglia in modo efficace con la Luce Alleanza del Wizengamot britannico!" Blaise replied, knowing that despite her having had twelve husbands, she did not know a word of English. "But mother, I refuse to marry Parvati Patil. She was last with Harry Potter and if he becomes my brother in law, I am effectively putting my family with the Light Alliance of the British Wizengamot!"
"Se non sposare la ragazza Patil poi farò la vita un incubo Blaise. Tuo nonno ha accettato questo fidanzamento quando eri un bambino appena nato e farà in modo che si vedrà attraverso. Non importa se Harry Potter è di essere tuo fratello futuro in legge, avrò a completare il vostro parte del contratto!" came the reply from his mother, standing up as her temper was rising. "If you do not marry the Patil girl then I will make your life a living nightmare Blaise. Your grandfather agreed this betrothal when you were a new-born baby and I will make sure that you will see it through. It does not matter if Harry Potter is to be your future brother in law, I will have you complete your part of the contract!"
Blaise knew it would be hard to argue with his mother on those grounds. Grumbling about how his grandfather had effectively screwed him over, he wrote back to Gringotts, the letter he had wrote being one for him to arrange a meeting between him and the Patil elders and his future bride. He just hoped that he could find love with Parvati as much as he was in love with Daphne.
-Snakes & Gossips-
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Type One-Shot / / / Status Complete / / / Distribution FFN, AO3 / / / Story ID 093