"I am sure he'll be all over it. Michael'll be so annoyed if I can afford a house before he can."

Giggle. "What's the baseline for 'a house', here, I'm sure either of you could buy a house right now -"

"The expensive part's the wards. And the land a little bit, I guess, if you want to live in a city, but mostly the wards."

"Does Michael want to live in a city?"

"I don't think so. Do you, you think?"

"I don't know, I'm used to it but I'm not attached as long as it's not a hundred miles from everything."

"It seems like living in a city'd have a lot of advantages once the Statute's repealed but Timothy did not seem to think that was right around the corner or anything."

"I know how to conduct myself around Muggles even with it but the benefit is less marked, yeah."

A week later Aaron has long questionnaires, would they like to review them and see if they capture most unrelated-to-attraction qualities important in a spouse?

It is absolutely essential that my partner have at least _______ magical great-grandparents.

It is absolutely essential that my partner speak at least _____ languages. 

Things I look for in a partner's family history include: 

Occupations that I would find particularly appealing in a partner include:

Occupations that to my mind disqualify a partner include:

Past conduct that I would find particularly appealing in a partner includes:

Past conduct that to my mind would disqualify a partner includes: 

If my spouse fell in love with someone else, I would want them to:

If one of my children were a Squib, I would want my spouse and I to:

If one of my children wanted to marry a Muggle, I would want my spouse and I to:

If one of my children got someone with a child outside marriage, I would want my spouse and I to:

And so on and so forth.

"Do people know how many magical great-grandparents they have," Stoller asks Miranda, "I don't even know my great-grandparents -"

"People get really into it and have elaborately annotated pedigrees and family trees. I personally invented the Igbo alphabet and don't have one of my own to show you, though."

"You could see ours, if you're curious what they look like, they're not really that elaborate - it's a clever phrasing by Aaron, though, even if you answer 'eight' you're drawing the classification in a way that lets people with halfblood grandparents count as pureblood -"

"Why's that clever?"

"If it caught on it'd mean blood purity only follows you a little ways back, which is better than lasting forever."

"It can't literally last forever, but it can last centuries," Miranda clarifies.

Stoller rolls her eyes.

The rest of the questions inspire quite a lot of discussion in the Slytherin common room!

"I think if you don't disown a child for marrying a Muggle you're wronging all your other children," someone says, "since their prospects will be damaged."

"And if they know you'll disown them for it they're less liable to do it in the first place -"

"And that."

"Has anybody got statistics on that?" wonders Miranda.

"I don't know that there are enough cases to have statistics on but it just seems obvious."

"It doesn't seem obvious to me. If your kid is the sort of person who might want to marry a Muggle, they probably think that's a reasonable thing to do, and I know if my mum were in the habit of threatening to disown me for things that seemed reasonable to me I'd probably figure it was going to happen eventually anyway and not listen to her at all."

"- I guess that could be an argument for not disowning children for marrying Muggleborns? So you don't have a rebellious child conclude it's inevitable and then do even worse? But there isn't worse than marrying a Muggle -"

"Sure there is, your daughter could come home pregnant and not married at all, or your son could run off with a veela."

"And I suppose you think one shouldn't deter those either?"

"I didn't say they were fine, I just think disowning people isn't going to help. You have to explain why you think they should marry whoever you think they should marry."

"Sure. But if you explain and they don't care about the wellbeing of their children or their siblings -"

"- then why would they care about being disowned?"