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To whom it may concern,

My name is Merlin Galahad Stebbins. I'm twenty-four and currently managing White Witch Weddings in Diagon Alley. This occupation allows me to see all the brides to be and their grooms on a daily basis. While there are occasionally a few matched couples who take their marriage in a positive way, this is not always the case.

A marriage is a delicate thing. I've seen brides before who are getting married for their second, third, and fourth time. Their children is what concerns me, as they're growing up in a shattered and unhappy family, which can't be good for their self esteem to see their parents splitting up constantly. Have you thought of those children? What about the children who grow up in a family that's a sham. Children that were required to be made just so your plan for mixed bloods would come to fruition. I find it sick that these future children's mental health is thrown out and not even considered when you made these laws.

Not only are you forcing people to marry, you're forcing them to build families that will not build up their children for a bright future. These children will dread the day when they have to marry their match, which is not what marriage should be about. Marriage is about love and when you have no love in the family you have a broken family and when there is numerous broken families what hope do we have for our future?

In particular, I must mention my match. You have matched me with a girl named Orla Quirke. I don't even know the girl, and while she is nice, she isn't the girl I can plan a happy, flourishing family with. The girl I love is Natalie McDonald. She's being married off to a boy she hardly knows and she won't be happy either. She's my best friend and I know for a fact that if you had 'forced' me to marry her I'd have done it instantly. I'd have eagerly done so because I do love her that much. I would go to azkaban a million times over because I refuse to marry a girl I do not love.

I urge you to consider the future of the next generation of magical peoples. You must know you are only fueling immoral behavior among the masses, as many have already told me they won't stop their match from sleeping with their lover if they're allowed to sleep with their own. Is that what you want? Witches and wizards openly cheating on their husband and wives? I think not, I think this legislation must be reviewed.

Sincerely,

Merlin G. Stebbins