AN: This is the second of three letters from different characters from the HP books, each exploring the effects of a Marriage Law (I'm assuming by now you all know the constraints of the Marriage Law, if not, where the hell have you been?). The letters are each from one of a couple to the other, I had specific ones in mind but I haven't named them, just apply them to whoever seems right to you.

Disclaimer: Tragically I don't own Harry Potter. More tragically, I don't own Professor Snape either =[

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Part Two.

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"This single scrap of paper, my love, could hold the answer to all our anguish. We must tread carefully, but if we succeed - and why should we not, we tick all the boxes - we might just pull it off.
"We'd be the couple on the Ministry's posters - brought together by the forge of this law and finding 'unexpected' happiness. Our reputations are known by all - our history by none. All those years we dreamed of a place to run away to, where we could love. Maybe we don't have to. "Even They'd never dare stop us with the Ministry behind us.
"Will you marry me?"