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: 638

Marriage Law Rejection Letters
Letter #274
Submitted By: Architeuthis
Sequel to: Letters #149, #209, #220, and #257
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To the Ministry of Asinine Sorcerers,

Thank you so much for matching me with Angelina Johnson! We'd only been dating for two years. I am very glad that you didn't match me with Rita Skeeter or something.

Your schedule is a problem. Your letter says that all couples have to meet within a week of getting their letters. That's actually all right – especially since Angelina and I met years ago at Hogwarts anyway.

While I understand that you don't want people having squibs, since the purpose of this ridiculous law is to increase the magical population, the medical tests at St. Mungo's were extremely intrusive. About the only thing those gits didn't do was us a Probity Probe on us!

The big problem, though, is your demand that people get married within a month of meeting each other. ARE YOU PEOPLE MENTAL?! Don't any of you have Mums?! I do, of course, and I still have nightmares about all of the preparations Mum had us make for Bill's wedding.

We held it at the Burrow, and Mum insisted that everything had to be just so. Part of the problem, of course, was that we Weasleys are probably the biggest magical family in Britain; Dad has several brothers, and they all have kids. We also had to consider people like Aunt Muriel, even if many of us would have preferred not to.

A Weasley wedding is always going to be a big wedding, and you can't make preparations for a big wedding in just a month. It took Mum and the rest about six months to prepare for Bill's wedding. Granted, we won't have to use the security measures we did for Bill's wedding since the wars over – but that probably shaves off only a month's worth of preparations.

Said preparations will include deciding where to hold the wedding, hiring somebody to preside over the ceremony, choosing dress robes for the wedding party, deciding who will be in the wedding party, planning a meal for the reception, etc., etc. I repeat: YOU CAN'T DO ALL THAT IN A MONTH! Especially not if my Mum and Angelina's Mum end up disagreeing about something.

In addition, you idiots chased off a number of our friends and even family with your stupid law. Even though Bill, Charlie, Harry, Hermione, Luna, and some others have all left England, we still have to send them invitations. They probably won't attend, of course, but we still need let them know the good news and give them a decent chance to respond.

Given that, we actually need more time than a month just to send out all the bloody invitations and wait for the responses so we can have some idea how many people will be at the wedding.

I agree with everybody else: How much firewhiskey did you people drink when you came up with the marriage law?

George Weasley

Author's Notes:
This latest Marriage Law Rejection Letter update was recently submitted to my review box by Architeuthis. Thanks for the submission. If anyone else has any letters they want to submit, feel free to send them in. lol

Notes from Architeuthis: Sequel to Bill, Arthur, Charlie, and Molly's letters.