Bitter Sweet Love

Summary: Marriage Law Fic: The War is over! The Golden Trio all return for their seventh year, but there's a surprise in store! They have to get married before the year ends!!! Will Hermione and Draco end up killing each other as they are forced into an unwanted marriage?

Starring: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Lavender Brown, Luna Lovegood, Blaise Zabini and others as they come along!

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A/N: Sorry guys I wrote Ginny Potter in the last chapter! Total accident! Anyways thanks for those of you who reviewed:D Enjoy! xxx

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Chapter 2:

Partners and Dorm Rooms

The week had been too fast for many people. Dumbledore a week later made the six and seventh years stay back once again. This time the house tables were not moved, they were asked to remain seated and wait for the post.

"So Harry, did you get the Veritaserum yesterday?" Ron asked.

"Yea and I told the truth, just have to wait for the letter to confirm mine and Ginny's engagement," Harry smiled holding Ginny's hand.

"What if they don't allow the marriage?" Ginny asked.

"I'll give up my magic," Harry said.

Everyone on the Gryffindor table looked at him.

"So would I," Ginny kissed him lightly.

"No they won't allow the boy who lived to do that, so they'll let you two get married," Hermione said.

"Fingers crossed," Harry said as the mail came.

The owls once again dropped the letters in front of the students. Everyone was frozen. Harry picked up his letter first.

Everyone in the hall watched him.

"Ginny," Harry smiled.

Ginny laughed and kissed him and then opened her letter, "Harry!"

Everyone else slowly opened theirs.

Hermione recalled her answers for the last part of the form:

Flashback

"Describe your perfect man, no more then hundred words," Hermione read to herself before starting to read,

My perfect man would have to be able to compete with me intellectually or at least keep up. I'd like a guy who's sweet even if he has a tough exterior. I want someone I can talk to, someone reliable. Looks to me isn't important but I don't want to be with a monster. I guess I want a soulmate, I don't know if you can find it through the marriage law but like I have a choice.

Hermione sighed, she knew she would never find her soulmate through this.

END OF FLASHBACK

Hermione opened her letter carefully:

Dear Miss Granger,

Your test results were very high, close to 100 . It has not been easy to pick your partner but we have chosen someone who fits your description of your 'ideal partner' and someone who can measure up to intellectually.

Your partner is also a Hogwarts student: Draco Lucius Malfoy.

You have no choice but to marry your partner. You must be engaged by the end of December and married by Easter, you must be pregnant latest by August 15th. If you fail to meet any of the deadlines there will be severe consequences.

Thank you for your time and have a good married life.

Diana MacNewton

Deputy Minister of Magic

"NO!" Hermione gasped.

"Hermione what's wrong?" lavender asked. "Who did you get?"

"Malfoy!" Hermione said angrily looking over to the Slytherin table.

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At the Slytherin table Draco was thinking about his answers:

FLASHBACK

"Hundred words," Draco noted before he began to write.

A perfect woman for me would be someone who could challenge me, stand up to me. Not many women challenge me, they fall at my feet, I don't want that. I want someone who can think for herself but thinks about me as well.

This Marriage Law will never find her, so what is the point.

END OF FLASHBACK

Draco half expected a letter which would be a response to the last line of his answer but instead there was no mention of it in the letter.

Dear Mr Malfoy.

Your test results were very high, close to 100. It has not been easy to pick your partner but we have chosen someone who fits your description of your 'ideal partner' and someone who can measure up to intellectually.

Your partner is also a Hogwarts student: Hermione Jane Granger.

You have no choice but to marry your partner. You must be engaged by the end of December and married by Easter, you must be pregnant latest by August 15th. If you fail to meet any of the deadlines there will be severe consequences.

Thank you for your time and have a good married life.

Diana MacNewton

Deputy Minister of Magic

"No fucking way!" Draco spat looking over to the Gryffindor table, his eyes met with Hermione's who glared at him with hate in her eyes. I can't marry her! My father, if he was alive, would never allow it! My mother might but no! Her! Out of all the people in the world! What are the fucking chances!"

"Who'd you get?" Pansy asked.

"Don't matter, who you got?" Draco asked.

"Ernie MacMillian," Pansy sighed.

"I got Luna Lovegood!" Blaise said shocked. "Lovegood!"

"I got Parvati Patil," Crabbe smiled.

"Padma," Goyle smirked. "Gryfindoor's but hot Gryfindoor's."

"Who'd you get Draco?" Blaise looked at Draco's letter. "Granger!"

Draco's head fell to the table. Why me?

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"Who did you get Lavender?" Parvati asked. "I got Crabbe! Crabbe!"

"I got Ron," Lavender sighed, "This is going to be awkward."

"Hermione who'd you get?" Ginny asked, now sitting beside Harry.

"Malfoy," Hermione whispered.

"WHAT?" Ron and Harry asked.

"No!" Ron said. "You can't! Malfoy!"

"I'm not happy about it either," Hermione sighed.

"On the plus side he is hot!" Parvati said.

"But he's Malfoy!" Hermione argued.

"Yea that's the down side," Lavender sighed.

"Neville who did you get?" Harry asked.

"Hannah Abbott," Neville smiled. "Dean got Claire Tisa."

"Who's that?" Harry asked.

"She's in my year," Ginny said. "Ravenclaw."

"Oh," Harry kissed Ginny.

"Silence everyone," Dumbledore said. "Now because of this law, there will be changes made. The first change, for breakfast there will no longer be house tables, for a few weeks there will be round tables, you are expected to eat with your partner, so you can get to know each other."

Everyone listened carefully.

"This does not mean houses will change, house points and Quidditch teams will not change. However this law is the reason there are no heads. There is no need for them this year. The third and most important change is living quarters. The ministry has stated that all students who are set to marry must live together."

Babble broke out as every student was confused.

"Silence," Dumbledore said. "There have been arrangements made. You will all head to your towers after I finish. You will pack up your things in trunks. During this time we will decide who will live with who. You see Professor McGonagall has added flats to Hogwarts. Each flat has four bedrooms and bathrooms as well as a common room. This means four couples to a flat. The list on which common room you each will head to will be sent to you when you pack. Once you are packed take your trunk and you things with you to your new flat. Any questions?"

There were none, they all knew they couldn't do anything about this.

Hermione sighed as she headed to the Gryffindor tower with the others ready to pack. Ginny was the only one who wasn't down.

"It can't be too bad!" Lavender said after a while.

"We have to share a bedroom with them and a bathroom as well as a common room with people we probably have never talked to!" Hermione said.

"Ok its bad," Lavender sighed. "I can't do this."

Hermione looked at Lavender, "At least its Ron."

"Yea that's a good and bad thing. I dated him. I don't think this will work," Lavender sighed.

Ginny and Hermione walked over to the other girl.

"We'll all be fine," Hermione said, lying to everyone and herself.

"Be grateful you haven't got Goyle," Parvati said.

"You have Crabbe," Lavender chuckled.

"Even worse!" Parvati moaned.

Within a few minutes everyone was ready. Hermione shrunk everyone's trunks and belongings and they all put it in their pockets and waited in the Gryffindor common room when Professor McGonagall came in.

"Is this everyone?" McGonagall asked.

"Yea," they all said.

"Ok, I've tried to put as many Gryfindoor's in one place as I can, of course Professor Dumbledore wanted to mix everyone up so here you go here are your groups," McGonagall handed them all a list.

Hermione read hers:

Common Room 35, behind the painting of the Ophelia (From Hamlet): Seventh Floor, third painting on the right, Password will be given when you arrive there.

Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger

Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley

Ron Weasley, Lavender Brown

Blaise Zabini, Luna Lovegood.

"Hold on Zabini and Luna?" Ron grinned.

"Be nice to her Ron!" Hermione warned.

Ron continued to smirk.

"Hey we have each other," Lavender hugged Hermione and Ginny, "And Luna's not so bad."

"Parvati who you with?" Ginny asked.

"I've got Padma and Goyle, Pansy Parkinson and Ernie and Neville and Hannah. Not bad!" Parvati smiled. "Two Gryfindoor's and my sister. Ernie's ok too. Downside three Slytherins!"

"You should all start making your way up to the rooms," Professor McGonagall said. "Good luck."

Harry, Ron, Ginny, Lavender and Hermione all got up and headed to the seventh floor. When they found the portrait of Ophelia they stood there.

"The others have yet to arrive, only when they arrive will you be given the password," Ophelia spoke.

"Ok," Hermione replied.

They waited, Luna arrived first and then Draco and Blaise.

"We're all here," Harry said to Ophelia.

"Very well you may decide on a password now," Ophelia said.

"How about Slytherin?" Blaise smirked.

"No!" Everyone else except Draco replied.

"What about Garden Tiny Itching Nympholas?" Luna said.

"Luna, that's too long," Hermione said slowly.

"And crazy," Ron added under her breath.

"Unity," Harry suggested.

"Unity?" Draco asked. "Yea ok even Weasel can remember that one!"

Blaise laughed.

"Unity is out password," Harry said once the others agreed.

They entered through the portrait hole. It was huge. The common room itself had four three seater sofa's, all white, a neutral colour. The floors were off wood like everywhere else. There were bookshelves, desks, lamps with white lampshades and a huge fluffy white rug in front of the fireplace. When they entered on the left and right of the common room there were doors. The door on the left read: 'THE WEASLEYS'. The door on the right read 'THE ZABINIS.'. After the common room there was a staircase on the left and one on the right. The one on the left lead to a door which had the engraving: 'THE POTTERS' and this meant that the door on top of the right staircase had the engraving: 'THE MALFOYS'.

Each door was brown like all the furniture in the common room. Draco silently walked up the stairs, Hermione followed after a few minutes. She noticed the engraving on the door was silver. Draco opened the door.

The walls were pale and empty as was the carpet. Their were twin beds in the room, mahogany, the duvet and pillowcases colourless. There were mahogany bedside tables on either side of the twin beds and lamps identical to the ones in the common room. There were two wardrobes and one chest of drawers with a vase of white Lillies above them.

There was also a card there.

"We can decorate the room the way we want," Hermione read off the card.

"You choose, I don't care!" Draco said looking at the bathroom.

"What about this," Hermione waved her wand, the room was a purply, blue colour, known as starlit night. It was more blue then purple.

"Fine," Draco nodded he waved his wand, the carpet was white and the duvets became the same colour as the walls.

"Nice," Hermione smiled.

Draco nodded.

"So what bed do you want?" Hermione asked.

Draco didn't ask and sat on the bed closer to the bathroom door rather then the one closer to the window.

"You will have to talk to me!" Hermione's temper was rising.

"No I don't have to! Listen Granger I don't want to marry you, you're a filthy little mudblood!" Draco snarled.

"You think I want to marry you?" Hermione shouted. "The guy who tortured me since day one?"

"You beaver!"

"Man Whore!"

"Bushy haired nerd!"

"Snake!"

"Bookworm!"

"Bastard!"

"Tramp!"

They both took deep breathes sending death glares at each other.

"You know what Malfoy, stay out of my way and I'll stay out of your way!" Hermione sneered.

"Fine!" Draco replied angrily as they both began to unpack.

As soon as Hermione was done she went down to the common room. Ginny, Luna and Lavender were waiting.

"Feel like a walk?" Lavender asked as her and Luna headed outside.

"Sure, come on Hermione," Ginny said noticing the anger in Hermione's eyes.

Hermione followed and once she was out in the hall she spoke, "I hate that ferret!"

"Why? What happened?" Lavender asked.

"We exchanged insults, what else do me and Malfoy do!" Hermione said. "I don't want to talk about this. Luna how's Blaise?"

"Weird, he looks at me weird! Maybe there's a drum troll in his ear," Luna smiled.

"Yea maybe," Ginny smiled.

"So in your rooms, you all got twin beds?" Lavender asked.

"Yea, there's a spell to make it a double bed," Ginny smiled. "But until your married its going to stay twin unless you do something about it."

"How do you know all this?" Hermione asked.

"Harry knows it, don't ask how," Ginny answered.

"This is going to be a difficult year," Hermione said. How am I going to live with Malfoy?

"Is it me or is all this happening so fast," Lavender said. "I mean the letters, the partners, now new dorms, what next?"

"Babies," Hermione sighed.

"I feel like killing who ever came up with this stupid law!" Lavender muttered.

"Its all too fast," Ginny said. "Its not going to be a normal easy year."

The other three nodded.

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Blaise entered Draco's room. Draco was still unpacking.

"Hey," Blaise said.

"Hey, how's Loony Luna?" Draco asked.

"Loony," Blaise sighed. "She thinks I have a drum troll or something in my ear."

Draco laughed.

"How's Granger?"

"Annoying, bossy, know it all beaver," Draco replied. "How am I going to do this?"

"No clue mate, be grateful Granger is sane," Blaise said sitting down on one of the two white sofas in the room.

"Just about sane," Draco sighed. "This year is going to be horrible."

"Definitely!" Blaise agreed.

A/N: THIS IS ONE LONG CHAPTER! LOL!

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