Chapter 14-New rules and regulations
It is now a week after the Gryffindor/Slytherin match and Umbridge was in her office 'quilling' out a request for an educational decree that would allow her to begin the campaign of reforming the schools educational systems to suit the needs of her lord and master: Cornelius Fudge, the minister of magic. While in the Gryffindor commonroom, Harry is seen working on his homework for his mother's potion class, with him was the always studious Hermione Granger and his loving Girlfriend Ginny Weasley, both of which had their own work to deal with, well the whole of Gryffindor house had a lot of work from the professors and the only one not doing his work was Ron, as he thinks that he could just copy off someone and then hand that work instead.
In London within the Ministry of Magic, the Minister: Cornelius Fudge was busy looking over a new law that had been just handed to him, by the man in front of him: Lucius Malfoy, the law in question was titled: Family Restoration Act, which Malfoy had thought of when several of his Death Eater allies had told him, that they could not have anymore children and with nothing but: Daughters, their family line is die out. With that in mind, Lucius made this law/Act as a way of making it so an Heiress of a family can web a Lord or Heir of another family, allowing that Lord to gain the title of lord of the Heiresses family and still marry another women to sire an heir for his family.
After Fudge finished looking over the law, he believed it was acceptable and with the power he took from the Wizengamot, the ability to pass any law without consultation, due to them passing laws that his friend and advisor had not wanted passed, and stamped passed on to the bill, before summoning the Ministries Public Relations office to 'quill out' the announcement of the new bill. Seeing the law passed, Lucius hid a smile and excused himself to let his pawn finish his job.
Once Lucius left the Ministry, he headed home and had a house elf write to his son, informing him to start collecting the girls of who their parents owed debts to him and then post off the betrothal contracts, explaining their new payment. Many days later, with the word spreading around about the F.R.A. and the educational decree Umbridge had put in place, which now restricted the Hogsmeade village visits to all year Slytherins and the 7th years for other houses, forcing the 1st threw 6th years students of: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw to stay at the school, not that the school pranksters followed that decree.
But the reaction to the F.R.A. was different and manly had Harry, James and Lily swamped with requests to have their daughter marital hand given to Harry and due to holding the: Zhang, Potter, Flamel (which Harry was awarded with), Black (until Sirius was a kid) and Peverelle title, Harry is forced under the new laws to take a wife for each name and at least 3 wives for each of their family names too. After sending rejection letters back to the parents of girls who are too old for harry, the Potters were able to narrow down the list to have: Ginny as Lady Potter, Kira Kang as Lady Zhang, Hermione as Lady Flamel, Pavarti Patil as Lady Black, Daphne Greengrass as Lady Peverelle, while Luna Lovegood was chosen to take Lady Lovegood, Padma Patil took Lady Patil, Tracey Davis get Lady Davis and Susan Bones had taken Lady Bones.
(A.N. Harry's relationship with Ron is gone and Hermione hates his unmotivated outlook and tactlessness.)
After the decisions were made, the Potters then sent off the signed contracts and they then retire for the rest of the day. While Draco was reading over his fathers' letter and smiled evilly, 'I can finally get my hands on Greengrass,' thinking of Daphne Greengrass, whom was on the otherside of the Slytherin commonroom with her homework sprawled out on the table she had been at, seeing this Draco felt it would be wise to leave it for another time, remembering watching the last time she was interrupted during her studies: It was not pretty and Pansy still was having nightmares over it.
Leaving Daphne alone for now, Draco decides to pursue another Slytherin Girl target of his: Millicent Bulstrode, and get her to agree to the marriage contract with him.
Over the next couple of days, the futures wives of Harry Potter had met with their parents and the Potters, where they were bought up to date with the effect of the new law and why they were being betrothed to Harry Potter – of course Ginny had no problem with the arrangement, as long as Harry loved them equally and voiced it to Harry, whom promptly asked all the girls on a date, Hermione was okay with it. But the other girls were a bit different, but accepted that their parents were trying to protect them from people like Draco Malfoy, who has yet to approach Daphne as he is still trying to court Millicent.
In the end, after the offer of a date with Harry, the Girls all accepted the contracts and signed them, before their parents sent them to the Ministry for processing and the with the last meeting was on a Friday; which was with Daphne parents, they then decided to meet up with the others and plan their dates with Harry, which they would spent the next day in Hogsmeade. Later that Friday night, the evening edition of the Daily Prophet with the contract notifications of the F.R.A. participants came, during Dinner and the results were: pandemonium, with the start of it coming from Ron Weasley, who had yelled, "POTTER STAY AWAY FROM MY SISTER, YOU BASTARD," and then after he notice Hermione name and screamed again, "AND STAY AWAY FROM MY GIRL," which broke the flood gates, for other people had their eyes on the various girls on Harry Potters Lists, with only Draco being silent but fuming at a chance lost and the belief of a traitors in his house.
The pandemonium continued on, until Headmistress McGonagall stood up and with that mere movement the entire school froze in place, with various wands aimed at Harry head, while all of Harrys' girls had their wands pointed towards various boys, while some of the girls were looking jealously at the girls wishing to join them. Elsewhere down the table, Umbridge was looking on with contempt, 'Potter was not suppose to be apart of F.R.A. and what is he doing when he had accepted it?' was her thought, before she was about to call for the punishment of Potter and the Girls he has, but missed her chance as Minevra had already done so for the girls and the boy who started it, the latter get the harsher punishment.
Meanwhile in the ruined remains of Dumbledore castle, the sat waiting for the signal of his beacon to alert him of the location of his minions and weapons.
