esmenet | (no subject)

Here is how to write a Marriage Law that would not immediately be repealed:

First, make it binding only to the so-called 'pureblood' families; those who, in recent years, have styled themselves such.

Second, make it a familial contract: the joining of two houses, perhaps with a change of name. Any children born into those families -- side branches too, if they count themselves as such -- would have citizenship and education in both magical and non-magical Britain.

Third, enforce nothing outside the basic contract. No mandatory sex, no mandatory children. Co-habitation is unnecessary; the couple should see each other reasonably often, but what that is should stay undefined. The custody of children with a different parent may be arranged by the couple in question, though they should carry the name and privileges of one of the new families.

Nice and quick and no dubcon-y sex magic. See? Easy.

Threaded | Flat

I started reading this post assuming you were talking about same sex marriage.

It was very surreal :D

Wouldn't all of those stipulations actually defeat the purpose of the marriage law, though? (If we assume that the law is the ministry's nefarious way of controlling muggle-borns, or of repopulating the wizarding world, which are the two purposes that I've always seen in ML fics.)