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Written for the February Event (Teamwork) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Teamwork Prompts: (Object) Heart Shaped Glasses, (Word) Betrothed

1000 Word Challenge: Wish

Word Count: 430

Engagement Party

"And now we would like to present the newly betrothed Bellatrix and Rudolphus," Druella announced excitedly, raising her glass in a toast to the happy couple as they made their entrance down the grand staircase in the high class pure blood boutique hotel. "We wish you all the happiness in the world my daughter and I look forward to welcoming a new son into our family."

Druella kissed her daughter and future son-in-law on the cheek as they came to stand by her side, and then raised her glass high, "To Bellatrix and Rudolphus. May your marriage be as happy mine and your fathers."

"To Bellatrix and Rudolphus," the crowd echoed.

The guests at the party quickly spread out across the ballroom after the toast, and at various intervals throughout the evening offered their congratulations to the happy couple, much to the dismay of the couple.

Rudolphus eventually grabbed hold of his girlfriend and dragged her onto the dance floor, effectively whisking her away from all the false smiles of their parents' friends.

As he moved her across the dance floor the Blacks and Lestranges observed them from the corner of the room.

"It's a good thing that Bella and Rudolphus fell in love by themselves," Druella said quietly to her husband and the Lestranges. "Who knows how Bella would have reacted if we'd had to tell her she had been betrothed since birth?"

"Oh gosh that doesn't even bear thinking about love," her husband agreed with a shudder. "I think the entire house would have been little more than a cinder by the time she was done going on the rampage about not being able to choose who she marries."

"I had no idea your Bella was so – unpredictable," Mr Lestrange chuckled quietly, before taking a sip from one of the custom made heart shaped champagne glasses. "Our Rudolphus is much the same. They truly are a match made in heaven."

"They really are," Mrs Lestrange agreed nodding her head as they turned to observe their respective children dancing. "Whoever said that arranged marriages are a thing of the past clearly needs to come and see this match and then re-evaluate their thoughts on the matter."

The trio of adults nodded their heads in agreement, each one of them secretly glad to have avoided what happened with Cygnus' cousin who had rebelled against her family's wishes and married a blood traitor.

The two sets of parents continued to observe their children as they danced, all of them well aware of just how drastically different this could have turned out.

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