Disclaimers: As much as I may want to claim ownership of this famous series, I can't because Harry Potter belongs to a whole lot of different companies that I can't remember the names of at the moment. Any characters that appear in this fic that is not a part of the original series, belong to me so don't take them without asking first.

Word Count: 1,319

Marriage Law Rejection Letters
Letter #264
By: Sakura Lisel
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Early one morning, Lilith B. Crawford warily made her way towards her office in the Regulation of Magical Marriages Ministry Department, as she openly dreaded what the newest day would bring to what now used to be her favorite job in the Ministry since coming to work there.

But ever since the Ministry of Magic had instituted a mandatory marriage law to the cititzens of Magical Britian just a few short weeks ago that was created to help repopulate the magical world after thde dreaded war with You-Know-Who had wiped out a lot of wizarding families.

Lilith had been tasked with the job of sending the 'congratulatory' letters to the future new brides and grooms about their impending Ministry approved nuptials, her life had been turned into a living hell.

Recently she had to hire a mail redirect service that would send the more dangerous letters she received from disgruntled couples who were angry enough to send hexed letters and Howlers telling her off about the Marriage Law, and she was told quite rudely what she could do with it.

As she reached her department and greeted all of her coworkers, she made her way to her office and unlocked the door. But just as she was about to enter, she froze as she immediately noticed a HUGE bulging envelope placed on the center of her office desk, while on top of that envelope was a smaller envelope that was taped to the top of it.

Quickly pulling out her wand quickly as she entered her office and shut the door behind her, as she pointed it at the two envelopes and did a quick diagnostic spell on both of them, but the diagnostic spell couldn't find any signs of hexes or potions on either item, causing her to let out a small sigh of relief as she made it the rest of the way to her desk and sat down behind the desk, as she eyes the two envelopes warily for a moment.

'I might as well get it over with and open them, instead of stalling invetiable.' Lilith thought warily to herself, as she slowly reached out for the smaller letter and peeled it off of the bigger one, as she opened the letter and starts to read it, 'Seeing how the diagnostic spells show that there are no hexes or curses on either one, it can't be THAT bad could it?'

As Lilith continued to read, she started to pale drastically as she read over the letter, as she glanced over at the huge envelope every few seconds.

Dear Lilith B. Crawford and the rest of the Morons of the Ministry of Magic,

I am writing this letter on the behalf of every single unwed witch and wizard in the British Magical world to tell you that you can forget about ANYBODY who will WILLINGLY 'obey' this absurd Marriage Law of yours that is trying to steal the rights of its citizens away from them when it comes to who they marry and who they chose to love.

We warned you idiots to NOT put this law through, but you CHOSE to disregard the publics wishes and decided that YOU know whats 'best' fro the rest of the magical race. We TRIED to do things PEACEFULLY and to work to come up with a DIFFERENT route than this abusurd marriage law, but for some reason you CHOSE to ignore us, and 'expect' that everyone will just roll over and do what YOU say about their PERSONAL lives just because YOU made a law that makes you think that you can do so? We all say hell no!

Unfortuantly for the Ministry, we have decided to pull out to pull out the big guns (or wands) to ensure that we are not forced into this outlandish law. After a bit of study and research, we have come across a an old law that is still practiced across the world even now, known as the Laws of Arcadia.

For those in the ministry who might know about this particular law, it basically involves drawing up a UNBREAKABLE magical contract, that ensures that whoever signs it is PROTECTED from ANY and ALL attempts to subvert our rights to chose how to run our own lives, and any attempts to put our names on 'contracts' without our permission or personal signature, will make the ILLEGAL contracts null and voided with our names automatically disappearing from the parchment, and the ones who wrote the contract up will be magically punished by the Laws of Arcadia contract.

In the bigger envelope that came with this letter, are copies of every single Laws of Arcadia contract that have been signed, sealed, and legally documented by EVERYONE who wishes to have NOTHING to do with this marriage law. Not even our parents, guardians, etc. can go against the contract to try and force us into obeying the law.

As long as they are in effect, there is absolutely nothing the ministry of magic can possibly hope to do to try and break them, without harsh and severe automatic magical punishment being dealt to the ones who try.

As a precautionary incentive, we have also included our families and friends into the contract, to protect them from any attempts to use them against us to try and force us into complying. Any perpetrator trying to harm our famailes in the name of this law will face the same magical punishment they would if they were trying to force us into obeying the law.

You inbred morons made your own bed the second you came up with this ludicrous idea to not only TRY and make your citizens become nothing more that studs and broodmares against their wills, but to also have the gall to think we'd let you pick WHO we will be married to as well? That last part was the LAST STRAW as far as everyone is concerned.

As far as all of us are concerned, we didn't fight, and nearly die, fighting for our FREEDOM against a homicidal manian TYRANT like Voldemort and WON, just so you jerks can turn around and take it away from us, by trying to make us get married and have children to people we don't know or even love against our wills.

Good luck finding WILLING participants to your 'repopulation law' who haven't signed the contracts yet, because thanks to the contracts we all signed, it will be a cold day in bloody hell before you get any of US to go along with it, especially now that our rights are now protected by the Laws of Arcadia contracts.

Insincerely yours,

Hermione Granger

'All right. I'll admit it. I was completely wrong about what I said about the letter… It DID get a lot worse.' Lilith thought silently to herself bitterly for a few minutes more, as she stared blankly at the letter in her hands, as she reread it a few more times just to make sure her mind wasn't playing tricks on her, before she let the letter fall to the desktop as she cursed loudly, "Bloody hell!"

Author's Notes:
This latest Marriage Law Rejection Letter update was created by me in a fit of inspiration. lol If anyone else has any letters they want to submit, feel free to send them in. lol