Disclaimer: These characters are not mine nor will I ever own them. I am simply borrowing them for a story. Harry and Co belong to the nice JK Rowling

Summary: A new marriage law is released, involving Pureblood's, Halfblood's and Muggleborn's. Hermione Granger/Severus Snape, Harry Potter/Narcissia Malfoy, Ginny Weasley/Dean Thomas, Ron Weasley /Lavender Brown.

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Teen Spirit- Part 1

Thoughts

'Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore Will you kindly stop teaching those 2nd years how to transform chips of rock into flies.' Shouted an angry Professor Gladstone.

Albus Dumbledore now an old wizard in his late 150's, smiled fondly as he remembered the dream he had just woken from. Professor Gladstone was the past head of Gryffindor and was a great influence on him when he was just a small boy. Such a mischievous nature he had, that Fred and George Weasley looked tame.

'It's a shame' he thought 'that those carefree days as teenagers were beyond reach for the students of Hogwart's school of witchcraft and wizardry'.

In three short days he, Albus Dumbledore, chief warlock of the Wizengamort and Chairman of the International Confederation of Wizards would have to deliver a piece of news, not only to the faculty but also to the pupils of Hogwarts. News that not only dismayed him but also saddened him. A new law had been passed which meant that all wizards and witches over the age of 17 and under the age of 45 would have to be married and have children by four years time. Not satisfied with making the law, the ministry had decided that they would pick the couples and that it would be a legal wizarding marriage. Basically all young witches and wizards would be married to someone they had possibly never met and to spend the rest of there life with them. Let alone the children they must have by the time they have been married 4 years. Young people not that much bigger than children, who should be carefree and reckless, forced into a likely unhappy marriage. Provisions would have to be made for the older students and their partners, as well as prenatal care and childcare.

The ministry were going too far, the marriage law and partners were all to be a Halfblood's or Muggleborn's married to Pureblood's. Something to be wary of; firstly the Halfblood's and Muggleborn's safety. It was common knowledge that some pureblooded families could be very violent and displeasent towards those they considered less important than themselves. Secondly, whether those afore mentioned families would allow their new relatives, to continue their studies and training at Hogwarts. More over if the new relatives were female. A sad fact that some pureblood families would stop the women from completing their education for the sake of gaining an heir.

With these thoughts still swirling around in his mind, Albus settled into an uneasy sleep.