One: Civil Unrest
Five years have passed since Harry Potter made the ultimate sacrifice and became a martyr to the cause of the light side in the last wizarding war. Five years is a long time to recover from any war or natural disaster. But being that most of the wizarding population around the world was so devastated by this war, the Ministry of Magic offices all over the world have issued Marriage Laws. Each country had different rules, but all of them were clear on one thing: any witch or wizard of breedable age was forced to comply. Anyone who did not comply was imprisoned, or given The Kiss by dementors.
The riots and protests began small, as any revolution does. But they soon became very large, and was even backed by some pureblood families, because it was, in a word, oppressive. Freedom of choice had been the privilege of wizardkind for over a hundred years. Why in Merlin's name would any sane witch or wizard want to go back to those times?
So it was, that the auror massacres began where aurors were given the license by the Ministry to use the Killing Curse to show that dissension would not be tolerated within the ranks of society. Hogwarts was no different in their dislike of this new Marriage Law, but then again, they showed off their rebellion in other ways by throwing out the rules for these older students, and the teachers taught what they pleased without approval from the Ministry of Magic first.
We begin our tale on Platform 9 3/4, and a famous war heroine boards the famous Hogwarts Express to learn her destined fate lies in a most unlikely source, and with a wizard she never would have dreamed of having in a million years...
