The Marriage Law

Talk

"Stop right there witch!"

Hermione was shocked to see Malfoy stand up to pace in front of the fireplace. Harry looked troubled as well.

"Uhm...? "

"Don't insinuate at a divorce Granger. I can only get married once and so can you, if you wed me. Our traditional marriage vows negate infidelity as well, so you see-"

"We don't need to use your traditional vows then. "

Hermione cut him off by standing in front of him.

"I won't agree and I can't either. I will not give up centuries old tradition. Malfoy's only marry once in life and-"

He still took two steps towards her and abruptly stopped.

"Stop being stubborn Malfoy. I'm sure Malfoy's don't marry two people either. You can get married again to the woman you want with whatever rituals you-"

"But I can't. Only my first wife can give me an heir. And even if we don't use traditional ritual, you'd still be my wife. So, there's no need to break generations old tradition. And there have been documented cases of triads in Malfoy family, more times than you could guess. "

He took two steps back and turned to sit on the armchair as she contemplated what he'd just said.

"Oh."

"Oh"

Harry followed her sentiment and looked between the two of them.

"Yes."

Malfoy sighed when he saw she was about to give a silly excuse to keep the argument going.

"But-"

" Please don't Granger. I'll make it clear. The three of us, if we get married, will be so for life. We can get separated, we can live separately, but we won't be able to get a divorce legally or magically. You won't be able to get pregnant by anyone but the two of us and we can't make any witch other than you conceive. We won't be able to be with anyone but each other. If for instance, I'm drunk and getting it high with a woman or a man, your wedding bands will heat up, act as a portkey and both of you will be there at my side to haul me back home."

"Oh."

Harry made a face at the image that popped up in his head while his best friend, now fiancée sat next to him again.

"So this is it then? "

"Yes."

"Okay But you don't love me or even like me like that-"

" Well, it wasn't like I had a choice either way. If not for the law, I would have had to follow through with an arranged marriage anyway. We could always grow to like each other."

Hermione nodded, grasping all the information for now and looked at Harry.

" But Harry? "

" mm, I guess he's right. Do you think any woman would have gotten to know me for me before professing their love. I don't want to marry someone who see's me as a hero ignoring all my flaws. And you, well you know me so well, we could spend our lives amicably atleast and well, Malfoy's never seen the appeal of the chosen one. We could start at zero. "

"Okay."

Hermione sighed and closed her book that was lying between her and Harry.

"Then we need some terms to start this truce. Better to write them down."