Rest in Pieces

By JennyRice07

Summary: Hermione is fed up with Severus’s treatment of Neville in class. She decides to take action against him. Detention! This is also my response to the WIKTT Marriage Challenge. I’m kind of combining two different plots here!

Author’s Note: This is my first attempt at fan fiction, so please be nice and review. Flames are welcome!

Disclaimer: I only own Severus Snape when I’m asleep…Well until dream Hermione steals him back again!!!!!

Chapter One

The New Law

To whom this may concern:

The ministry of magic would like to inform you of a recent law that has been passed. The law has three sections. Please read the attached letter and return the enclosed application to the ministry by no later than Thursday, September 8th

Joyce Landon

Department of Magical Reproduction

Hermione dropped her fork onto her plate. She was already having trouble eating after Ron’s latest insult. Add that with the letter she just received and you could bet that anything she ate would just end up in some toilet somewhere.

She wiped her mouth with her napkin and walked to the Head Girl Dormitory on the 5th floor. Thankfully this year she had her own bathroom with full size tub made of black marble, common room with black and red furniture, and a private bedroom with a 4-poster bed. All the rooms had a beautiful marble fireplace.

Hermione walked into her bedroom and sat on the bed. I have to read the other part of the letter soon! She thought to herself. Slowly she pulled out the envelope from her pocket. She stared at it through tear filled eyes. Yes she knew about the new law. She’d been following it since the ministry proposed it this past summer. She like everyone else thought that it was just barbaric and that it would never be passed. She never expected it to affect her during her last year of school until Professor McGonagall informed her that because of her use with the time turner her third year that she was now considered 18.

She unfolded the second folded paper in the envelope and read:

Ministry Degree # 643

The Ministry Degree 643 states the following:

Any unmarried witch or wizard 18 or older must marry. Purebloods must marry half-bloods or muggleborns. The ministry will decide a suitable match for each eligible witch or wizard. Everyone must complete the following survey and return it to the ministry by the set date. You may petition for a certain witch or wizard. The ministry will consider all petitions and choose what we think is the best one. If you would like for your husband or wife to be changed you have one week (7 consecutive days) in which to notify the ministry in which we will for a fee switch to the second best suitor.

You will be given exactly 30 days after you are notified of your suitors to marry. Failure to do so will result in 60 days in Azkaban. A two week honeymoon is mandatory. Marriages are permanent and divorce will not be allowed. All couples are required to have sexual intercourse withtheir spouses once a week until the terms of part 3 have been fulfilled.

A child should be conceived during the first 90 days of your marriage. Abortions are not allowed. You must then produce a second child within three years and a third within seven years. All infertility potions and contraceptives are illegal! If caught using one you will be sentenced to Azkaban. Your sentence will be determined by what you used. Minimum of 90 days to a lifetime.

Please fill out the attached survey and send it in.

What is your most attractive quality?

What do you think is most attractive in others?

What is your blood status?

When did you graduate school?

What is your profession?

What are some hobbies?

What is the money range you are looking for?

What would you not want in a husband/wife?

Name some people you would want to marry.

Do you have any pets?

What job do you want your spouse to have?

What interest would you prefer your husband have?

What age range are you looking for?

What do you look for in looks?

Please write your full name below on the line.

Hermione sighed as she looked over the survey. I might as well get this filled out and turned in maybe I’ll get lucky and someone nice will petition for me. She thought to herself as she dug out her quill.

My brains (at least that’s what my ex told me!)

Their personality

Muggleborn

I’m in my 7th year at Hogwarts

Student

Reading, Walks on the beach, picnics, bubble baths, and potions

Doesn’t matter

Someone who’s stuck up with money, someone violent, someone with no sense of humor, someone who would isolate me.

I don’t know

Yes I have a cat!

I don’t know maybe a Teacher or Librarian.

Same as mine. I want him to read, take walks, etc.

Doesn’t matter as long as there are not OLD.

Doesn’t matter.

Hermione Jane Granger

Hermione sealed the envelope and walked up to the owlery to mail the letter. She didn’t count on running into Ron there.

“Hello Mione. Who are you sending a letter to huh? Do you have someone you’re talking to? Someone besides me. Your talking to Victor again aren’t you. What’s going on Mione? Tell me!” Ron was near shouting when he finished. Hermione could tell that he had been drinking. Where had he got the alcohol from this time! Dean promised to quit giving it to him after the last time he beat her.

“Ron are you drunk?” She asked as she backed up against the wall. She wasn’t prepared for this. She had broken up with him 3 days ago so why was he here now. She told him it was over after he told her that she was fat and needed to quit eating altogether. She was already 20 pounds underweight!

“What does it matter? I’d love you if you were drunk! Why don’t you love me Mione? There is someone else isn’t there? You’re seeing someone else!” He was almost falling over in the floor. He was also gaining on her and she was backed into a corner. She had to get help and quick.

Just when she was about to yell Harry walked in! He immediately grabbed Ron and wrestled him to the ground telling Hermione to get out of there. Hermione didn’t need to be told twice. She ran as fast as she could back to her dorm.

Hermione collapsed on her couch crying. On her lamp stand was a picture of Harry, Ron, and herself when they were younger. She’d give anything to have the good days before Ron was addicted to alcohol. The sooner she was married and had a husband to protect her from Ron the better. Then she had a though dawn on her. What is her husband was like Ron?

No she wouldn’t think that way. Hermione fell asleep on her couch that night. She forgot to set an alarm. Little did she know that being late for Potions in the morning would be the start of some very interesting events?

Authors note: PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW. I want to know if I should continue this story or not. Flames are welcome to but please don’t be to mean. I cry really easily. Brownies to you all!!!!