Hi everyone! This is my first story so no flames please! It is basically a Marriage Law Fic but I wanted to write it in more detail with other stuff that people don't write about! Please enjoy! R and R!

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Today was a fairly normal day for Hermione Granger, Double Potions, Defence against the dark arts, Herbology, 3 hours of homework and then patrolling the corridors with Malfoy. Come to think of it, did she just consider spending hours in lonely corridors at night with Malfoy normal?

After she had changed she made her way down to the Great Hall. Apparently Dumbledore was to make a 'special announcement' today for the 6th and 7th years, and that either meant that some stupid second years had blown something up or some serious news was about to be revealed.

As she was walking down she bumped into someone. She saw a flash of green before she fell to the floor. After waiting a while she realised that the other person wasn't going to be courteous and offer her a hand to get up so she stood up rather aggravated at this person's incompetence.

"Watch where you're going Mudblood!" He snarled and the familiarity of his voice sent shudders up her spine.

'Great, out of all the Slytherins that I could have possibly collided with it HAD to be Malfoy.' She thought.

"Oh I am so sorry Malfoy. I didn't realise that you were there. I guess your irrelevance in life is really starting to shine through." She quickly added and pleased with her witty comeback she sidestepped him and entered the great hall.

"Whatever Mudblood." He responded and followed her into the great hall.

Hermione sat down at her usual spot 2/3 of the way down the Gryffindor table.

"Morning Hermione." Harry said whilst fussing over whether to have brown or white bread with his breakfast.

"Gootd Morgnig Hamine," Ron managed to splutter out while his mouth was filled with eggs cooked in about three different ways.

"Morning," Hermione cheerfully responded whilst sending looks of disgust at Ron's awfully bad table manners.

Breakfast had almost finished and now only the 6th and 7th years were remaining in the hall, most students were eagerly waiting for Dumbledore's big speech that was probably filled with 80% irrelevance and 20% importance. Dumbledore rose from his seat and tapped his spoon onto his goblet which diverted everyone's attention.

"Good Morning 6th and 7th years, now I have an important announcement to make. I do not want to bore you with random chit-chat so I shall cut straight to it." Waves of relief spread through the crowd. "Now, the ministry has decided on a new law… it is a marriage law of sorts…" At this remark the whole hall filled with confused and anxious chat. "SILENCE! Now as I was saying, it is a marriage law but the ministry kindly allowed us to only pair Hogwarts students with other Hogwarts students, that way it will be less stressful as you will know your assigned partner. Now the partners are assigned through this compatibility test of sorts. A piece of parchment will be sent to each of you tonight and you will fill it in. Hopefully by tomorrow we will give you the results. Now any further questions?"

The majority of the hall was too busy fretting over this huge outburst of news to really respond but soon enough some hands were raised. It was Draco Malfoy none the less who had an unanswered question.

"Yes Mister Malfoy." Dumbledore said.

"Is this to do with the whole house unity thing?" He desperately wanted to say 'house unity crap that you all keep banging on about' but felt the need to hold back on the cussing. "Because if it is. Then will we be paired with Gryffindors?" he asked as if the G word had burned his tongue.

"Excellent question. Well we will be trying to tie in the house unity scheme in with this. So essentially the Gryffindors and Slytherins will be paired, likewise with the Huffelpuffs and Ravenclaws but if we see that there is a better match elsewhere the house unity scheme will not apply. Now anybody else?"

Ginny Weasley was the next person to raise her hand, after receiving a nod of consent from Dumbledore she proceeded.

"What about if you are already in a relationship?" she asked, her and Harry had been dating for a few months now and she was looking rather pale at the prospect of her being split from 'the love of her life.'

"Well we have taken that into account. However we feel that this compatability test is a real test to see whether couples are destined to be together. So nothing to fret about Miss Weasley."

The questioning session finished shortly after some Huffelpuffs had asked silly things such as 'will we lose marks if we complete the test wrong' and 'is there a way out of this?' Obviously not because otherwise Dumbledore wouldn't be proposing the idea if it was only optional would he?

~ Later on in the day after classes ~

"Can you believe this stupid new marriage law?" Lavender practically yelled across the common room.

"Calm down Lav, it really isn't that bad you know." Pavarti calmly tried to reassure her friend, however Lavender was still pacing around the room so her efforts failed.

"Yeah, I mean we could get paired up with our soul mates so really it's like a blessing in disguise." Ginny replied grinning, she was secretly hoping that her and Harry would be paired up together.

"However Ginny, we could also be paired up with one of our mortal enemies." Hermione said, putting a total bombshell on the conversation.

"True, well we'll have to wait and see! I'm going to fill out my test now." Ginny responded and made her way over to her parchment.

"We all better fill out our tests; I want to get it over with." Hermione stated and soon after Lavender and Pavarti made a start on their compatibility tests.

~ Meanwhile in the Slytherin Common Room ~

"Oi, Blaise, hand me that quill will you?" Draco asked whilst holding his hand out impatiently in the hope that his friend would respond.

"Get it yourself!" Blaise quickly added and continued to fill out his test.

"Git." Draco muttered under his breath and grabbed the quill himself.

"So are you going to fill out your test?" Blaise asked.

"Yeah, we may as well. Sooner of later I'm going to have to."

"You know, I'm really warming to this marriage law thing. It could hook me up with some hot Gryffindor."

Draco almost did a spit take while drinking his water. "You what mate?"

"I'm just saying that maybe it's a good thing."

"Yeah when pigs fly Blaise."

"Come on man, we all know that you've got a crush on that Gryffindor Mudblood." Blaise replied nonchalantly and continued with his test.

"What are you on Blaise?"

"Ahh the first stage, denial, well you'll get there eventually." Blaise added and tapped him on the back but then left the room so that his friend could ponder. "And I'm not on anything! Well not anymore!"

Before Draco could respond, Blaise had left the room so just said to himself, "Merlin I need to get some sane friends."

~ End ~

Well I hope you enjoyed that! Chapter 2 is about the tests. The Review button is waiting to be pressed…. xxxx