| Printed on the Front page of Monday Morning's Prophet (4 Feb 2001) |
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Putus Matrimonium Decree
In order to preserve the sanctity of wizarding blood, the following decrees is hereby enacted 4 February 2001.
There will now be four recognized classifications of wizard kind accepted :
1. Plenus Putus: those pureblood wizards who can prove their linage for four generations and more have been nothing but witches and wizards
2. Minor Putus: those those pureblood wizards who can prove their linage for at least two generations but not more than four generations and more have been nothing but witches and wizards
3. Halfblood: those those pureblood wizards who can prove their linage less than two generations have been nothing but witches and wizards, or witches and wizards with one muggle parent or grandparent.
4. Muggleborns: witches and wizards born of muggles.
Muggleborns:
1. may not marry under any circumstances
2. may not procreate under any circumstances
3. muggleborns conceived prior to the issuing of this decree will be taken as property of the Ministry of Magic upon birth
Halfboods:
1. All individuals, lacking at least one parent with a pureblood lineage of at least 4 generations, conceived prior to the issuing of this decree will be taken as property of the Ministry upon their birth. Said individuals will be forbidden to reproduce.
2. All current half-bloods that have not conceived prior to the issuing of this decree will only be allowed to marry a pureblood of at least 2 generations.
3. Any half-blood who chooses to marry another half-blood or refuses to comply with marriage recommendations made by the Office of Pureblood Sanctity shall be fined the sum of 500 Galleons.
Purebloods:
1.Purebloods that do not marry another pureblood will be fined and lowered in status.
Preferred marriage pairings will be sent out via Owl post. A sufferance fee of 500 Galleons will be charged to individuals who choose to go against the Ministry's recommendations. To monitor this decree, the Office of Pureblood Sanctity will be working within the Blood Purity Office. There will be owls going out within the fortnight.
Secretary Bellatrix Lestrange,
Department of Magical Law Enforcement
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