Part 9 - Explosive Order Meeting
As soon they arrived in the room, only Kingsley, Minerva and Severus were in the room so far, and Hermione gave a tight smile, while Paul looked unsure and not comfortable with the whole thing, but he held her waist, while she smiled and kissed his cheek, and said
"You ok, babe?" At that the others had wide eyes at what she said and called this tall Native american boy next to her, and the boy himself said
"I am ok now, just hate that travel, baby." Hermione just smiled and stroke his cheek, as Kingsley said after surprising them with clearing his throat, then said
"And who is this with you, Hermione?" Hermione rolled her eyes before she said
"This is my fiancée, Paul Lahote. Paul, meet the minister of Magic in England, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and the two with her is my former professors of Hogwarts; Minerva McGonagell and Severus Snape. Severus taught Potions and DADA, and Minerva was my Transfigurations professor aswell the head of my house at Hogwarts, Gryffindor."
Paul nodded and said polite hellos' while they stared and were in shock to hear that Hermione was engaged so soon after leaving in first place. The door to the room they all were in, opened and in came first Sirius and Remus and behind him was Harry himself.
Paul wanted to glare at this boy who seems to think that Hermione would go for this redhaired Ronald Weasley who had not only bullied her for being smart but made her cry multiple times, and to think that is ok to do, was not ok at all in his head and eyes. So he just held her closer and Hermione knew that he did it for make sure she was ok with being back here in first place.
Harry had shocked, wide eyes, while Remus and Sirius were indifferent but somewhat shocked to see her in first place here and not alone either. It made the two wonder who was with her, as they had not heard her present this boy to the professors and Kingsley. But it was Severus that said
"Well it is nice to meet you, Mr Lahote." Hermione just smiled as Paul said
"Nice to meet you too, Severus was it and it is Paul please."
Harry just stared at this scene with shock and wonder, while Severus nodded and said
"Alright Paul. I am glad that you found the one for you, Hermione."
Hermione smiled at him warmly, as he was the one who she wrote since leaving most with as he had always been supportive and open with her, and that relationship the two had was a father/daugther type of relationship. The others stood wondering what was that all about, but Harry said now tired of being ignored or something like it;
"What the bloody hell is going on here, why are you so kind to Snape of all people, Hermione?!"
Hermione rolled her eyes while Severus just glared and sighed as his energy from the war was not still the same as before it all happened, and he sat down soon after that, and Hermione said to Harry in scating voice
"It is none of your business to know a thing, Harry, but since you more or less asked, I will say this, Paul here is my fiancée, and I let him and Severus to talk as Severus and I have a very close relationship, as in father and daugther kind of relationship with each other since long time ago.
All of them were shocked of this, but before any of them could react or say anything more, the fireplace lit up, and Hermione sat down with Paul, as he pulled down onto his lap, she had a soft smile while he did this, and Harry stared at the two while all of this, and out of the fireplace came the two youngest Weasley's and the two were forced by unseen force to stay 10 feet from both Hermione and Harry, and it shocked Hermione, but Harry stared at Ginny longingly, while Ronald now saw Hermione, and did the same thing with her, while Hermione ignored the two for now.
Soon others including the rest of the Weasley's no Molly though. As soon all of them had sat down, Kingsley stood up and said
"Alright then, despite that the war is over, we still have something to do with the remaining Death Eaters, that didn't get caught at Hogwarts, only 4 left to deal with though. Now to the topic that is about today, and that is that we as in the Ministry came up with a new law, and that was the Marriage Law earlier, this is still in the works at the time we announced about it, but now its been finished with the last details, and today I am able to tell you about it."
At that those longing looks increased, and Paul now noticing Ronald the Idiot himself was looking at Hermione more intensely, and he glared at this, and turned to look at Kingsley, who said
"Everyone between 16-23 are under this law, and we as in the ministry will choose who you are getting married to, but we also have rules that you are obligated and mandotorially to follow, and those are;
1. No pre-marital sex is allowed, nor cheating on your partners of our choices is ALLOWED.
2. 4 children per couple is the max you are to have with your spouse, no more or less is allowed. And it is also 4 years between each children, after the last is born, you will be given a sterile potion to prevent more children or cheating around to get other children in your lives.
3. No abuse, potions of the illegal ones are not allowed to be used, nor a preventive methods either. Rape of your spouse will lead you to your death. Same goes if you murder your spouse for you are NOT happy with the choice we make for you.
4. This is FOR LIFE marriage, no outs of it.
So with that said, Hermione you are not part of this law, as you are US resident, and engaged to this Paul Lahote that is with you today."
He said that reculantly though, and Hermione just nodded and took a breath of relief too, and Paul just held her tighter to himself, as he was afraid that she would be forced into this shit law in his ears that he thought of it.
Meanwhile Ronald had stood up and was yelling of how unfair that all was, and to profess his still love for Hermione, and in the end, Hermione had enough, and stood up with her hair sparkling with magic and electricy, and yelled back
"I AM NOT YOURS TO BEGIN WITH, ASSHOLE. BESIDES YOU DON'T LOVE ME, YOU THINK YOU DO, BUT YOU LUST FOR ME, THAT IS NOT LOVE FOR NONE HAS TAUGHT YOU ON LOVE. NOR WERE YOU EVER INTERESTED TO LEARN AS YOU THINK ALL WORK INCLUDING SCHOOL WORK IS BORING AND NOT NEEDED FOR BEING A PUREBLOODED BOY, BUT THAT IS NOT IT WORKS ANYMORE, ASSHOLE. NOR WILL YOU EVER BE ABLE TO WORK AS AN AUROR FOR YOUR TEMPER AND PERSONALITY IS OF A YOUNG SPOILT BRAT OF A BOY, WHO CRIES JUST WHEN THINGS GOES BAD, YOU LEAVE. YOU ARE A COWARD AND ASSHOLE TO ANY WOMEN NOT JUST MYSELF. BUT I DO NOT LOVE OR LIKE YOU, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING AND DESERVES THIS, JUST LIKE YOUR SISTER OVER THERE WHO IS UGLY CRYING FOR SHE WON'T HAVE HER SICK CRUSH HARRY POTTER AS HER HUSBAND, FOR THIS LAW IS WHAT IT SAYS MORE THAT NO PURE AND HALFBLOODS ARE ALLOWED TO BE PAIRED UP, FOR TOO MANY SQUIBS AND DISFORMATIVES HAS TAKEN PLACE BETWEEN RELATED PEOPLES, AND THAT IS WHAT BLACKS, POTTERS, MALFOYS AND WEASLEYS ARE, RELATED BY BLOOD TO EACH OTHER."
And with that she sat down on Paul who was shaking too in anger, but her sitting down cooled that down, while the others were in shock and disbelief on what she had said or rather yelled at the stupid boy. Ginny just glared through her ugly crying, and stared at Harry who stared back at her, not taking in what she had yelled at her brother/his friend.
Hermione rolled her eyes, then Paul said
"So why did you then invite Hermione and I over, Minister Shacklebolt?"
Kingsley frowned but said
"Well to tell you the truth, I thought time away maybe would calm Hermione down and come back to us, but instead she said a vow to be yours only and be part of US citizen."
Hermione rolled her eyes, and said
"If you had asked me you would have found out that I was half US and half English citizen, for my parents', both of them were born and raised in US, but they left for a better work here in England, and shortly after that they with me found out about me being a witch. I went to Hogwarts for when we tried to get back to US, for I felt with my parents we should have gone there instead for schooling as the school fee here was expensive, and while my parents' were successful dentist, they didn't have the money to fee the school all through the 7 years, instead they paid for first 4 years, but then they got money from a relative that had died on my dad's side, and that made sure of me being paid for the full 7 years, but I ended that when we three went onto our hunt for those disgusting items, that Albus never told us about what they were or how they would feel like when we knew how they would be like with us. He withheld alot of stuff from us all, not just me or Harry or Ronald. But after the war was finally over, my plans still at the time was to go over to US, and be with my remaining family, the Camerons', as Maria Cameron was my mother's sister, my aunt. Jared is my cousin, and who is friend of Paul who is with me today. When Paul and I bonded through sacred magic, my resident of England ended for I knew right there and then, that my life is in US, not England anymore, and therefore I said my vows to US MACUSA, and they accepted it and made sure to erase me from your residency list, Kingsley. For my life is with Paul and US now, not England anymore, for it never had been my home in first place. My parents' knew that I wanted to be an US, and accepted it as they knew when the time came for me to be an adult both here in Magical world and No-Maj aka Muggle world, I would go there weither you or themselves wanted me to stay put, for they loved me more than anything else and wanted me to be happy. And they knew I would be happier in US than here when that time came for me to choose really. And the day Paul and I met, and were bonded through our sacred bond, my choice was also made in that. Paul is my true love and soulmate, and I know he loves me the same way as I do with and for him. Our bond is tight and completed, and none else has a shot to break us apart for whatever shitty reasons they think they can, for it won't work at all."
Paul just grinned while she spoke, and held her around her waist, and she smiled when she had stopped talking and snuggled up into his arms for now. Others stared in shock, disbelief and wonder, what she meant with this sacred bond, and before anyone of them could ask; Paul said
"The bond we have is a bond that nothing can ever break, for it is illegal to break, even for normal humans and other magical beings, for it is called Imprint, and it is what my people has with a chosen mate of their lives. When Hermione and I's eyes locked together, the Imprint happened, and it bonded us as friends first, but soon true love for each other grew forward, and here we are months later engaged to marry soon in very small, sacred ceremony of my people."
At that most were in shock that Hermione had been chosen to be this mate thing to this boy, and Hermione saw this and said
"It also was my choice in the matters of this bond, as he asked me what I wanted for each other when it happened, and at the time we didn't know each other at all, and so I decided to let it be a friendship bond for now, and let the feelings we both now have for each other that is also true and our owns for each other, we became eclusive with dating only each other, as none else was of our interest at all. I am Paul's and he is mine for life out. I love Paul Matthew Lahote with everything in me. None else has a chance with me, just none else has a chance to have Paul either, for none else makes us to love another person than each other. I also carry Paul's mark as his with love and joy, and it was also my choice to be marked by him, when we made love on the same evening that he asked my hand in marriage a month ago."
At that they all were in true shock, as she then turned her head and moved her hair and there infront of them all they got see her marked neck of his teeth. Paul had a proud smile on his face, and pulled her hair back down and she snuggled back into his warmth. She too had a giant smile on her lips. Remus growled of the sight of that mark, and Paul said
"I am not like you, whoever you are, I am a shapeshifter, that turns on either Anger or when a vampire aka Leech is nearby, only then I will shapeshift, and Hermione's own wolf is one beauty too."
Hermione grinned and kissed his cheek, and the others were shocked as Minerva said
"You succeded on becoming an Animagus and it is a wolf?!"
Hermione smiled, and said
"Yes, I did, and my wolf is big as Paul and the others of his pack's is, and I have silver, black and brown in my fur, due to my close relationship with my cousin, Paul and their Alpha who is a great man and friend of mine nowadays. I even helped them to keep their clothes on while phasing, as they usually would tear them apart when they phased. Paul has lost too much of clothes at the time we met and mated in the Imprint manner. So now he doesn't have to buy clothes that often as before. And that makes him happy, for he saves alot of money. Only shoes is what he breaks nowadays as his feet do still grow quite abit, but what I get for salary for now, helps that out at least. I am not rich, but comfortable in what I get for my work."
"And that is?" Hermione smiled, and said
"I work in a book store, that I opened up with the money I got from my parents' will to me only, as I am only child of theirs, but some of it also got to my aunt and uncle, Jared my cousin's parents. Even Jared and his fiancée got some of my parents', so we all are pretty much comfortable and stable in that area for now, but as we both do work, we will have the money to manage our lives."
"What do you work as Paul?" Severus said and Paul smiled, then said
"Not only am I part of the pack with my best friends, we also own an construction company with the others' fathers, and it has gone well so far. We earn quite abit from it all. I am the foreman enigneer, as I deal with the stuff that has to do with our material and make sure that things get right and good quality."
"And your parents?" Paul frowned as Hermione said
"They are not around right now. Do not ask about it please. It is very sensitive matter for my Paul."
Paul just kissed her forehead in thanks, and she squeezed his hand for now. Others frowned but said nothing, as the meeting was then ended, and before anyone could ask, Hermione and Paul took off by flooing back home.
