the quill shook in drao’s fiips. “what makes you say that?” the blorained voie.
“your father was a veriae. you are a veriae. i am your veriae bo makes me family, doesn’t it?”
“not by blood.”
&er. i an still walk with you, an’t i?”
drao sighed. “yoing to leave me aloil i agree to this, are you?”
“no.”
drao rolled his eyes and muttered, “bloody gryffindor,” under his breath bef up at harry. “fine. you an walk with me.”
abandoning his homework for his own sense eny, harry headed for the library the first mier sses had ehe day. harry quikly realized that he had no idea where oore the kind of subjet material he was looking for in a library setting, and therefore had to turn to madam pine for help. she looked rather surprised when a young teenage boy, harry potter no less, asked for where one would find books oe, but she gave him diretioe orhe library and two hours ter harry found what he was looking for.
many of the books he lh had been about how muggle ulture had bee soiety. but that wasn’t what he’d wah a family like the malfoys, he had to go looki book oe he ould find. he finally found it buried o shelf in the orner, so overed with dust that he sneezed whe off the shelf. ping it oable where he’d thrown his book bag produed yet another loud of dust and another sneeze.
harry began flipping through its see-through-thin pages, bypassiion o the setioiquette. now that he was going to attend luius malfoy’s fuo khat would be expeted of him, evewo in attene would be drao and himself…or maybe more beause the only two in attene would be drao a was not that he did not trust hermios straight, but to be sure he didn’t miss something importahat maybe only drao himself would find important.
after half an h, harry found that his only problem was finding his family’s olors. he didn’t think that they had any, ahe potter family was eveo have family olors or a family rest and plus he had o find out if they did. but the book said that in the absene of family olors, iane of an orphahe m lothes would oh the dark red uffs. of ourse, harry did not own pr m robes, but he figured that hermione ould hahe olor of the uffs on his normal robes easily enough.
harry piked up the book to lose it a bak on the shelf before he headed dow hall for dinner. as he did so, the page he’d just fiurhe heading of the &ion aught his eye.
wizardihe marriage rite
harry bit his lip as he stood there for a seo bak dow es in the wizarding wave younger wizards a status in a way very different from the muggle wal status was based o if there was somethi that harry didn’t k really pressed hermione for aails for fear that she would jump to the onlusion that he was going to propose to drao ihis legal fix that drao—aly himself thanks to rita skeeter—was ied to himself, it ossibility, even if it was very far-fethed. in fat, drao himself robably hinking of it as a remote possibility. no, only he was… and harry didn’t even knoould be gettio.
sitting bak in the hair, harry began to read.
&ion to remember ab etiquette e and marriage was a bit more omplex than that on funerals, whih made harry deide to write it out to make sure he did hing ruial.
the book broke aionship down ihe aretaker of the pair (alled the “maritus”) and the one who was taken are of (alled the “marita”). ih a heterosexuals the aretaker was always male aaken are of was always female. ih homosexual partwo would deide whih would take the traditional “male” role and whih would take the traditional “female” role. this, the book stated expliitly, had no onnotation to what role the partook iiohe two.
first there was a long ourtship proess that by now harry and drao had ompletely skipped over and rendered useless seeing as they had shared sleepihing that was forbidden duriship ritual.
&ion ould only our after the maritus had gained permission from both his own family and the family of the marita. this permissioer proper fulfillmeship rituals, whih he and drao would have to skip aus would thehe marita a, “where i am gaius, there yaia?” (slightly different thaie vows, spoke he maritus had learhe marita aepted, he/she would reply “where i am gaia, there yaius”. the maritus would thehe e ria’s fihe marita would do the same for the maritus.
iion for a traditi wedding, it was the job of the marita to provide the robes for both partraditiohing had to be hahe marita, but over time the ustom had evolved so that the marita only had to pay for the lothes. the maritus would pay the “bride prie” of the marita to th