Magic-Muggle Marriages was Spinner's End as home (wasRe:

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 142176

lealess:
> > I am wondering if witch-Muggle marriages *DO* work.  The 
> > examples we have show no signs of happiness.   As for wizard-
> > Muggle marriages, are there examples of that in the books?
 
Potioncat wrote:
> The one that comes to mind is the Finnegan family. However, we 
> don't know anything about it. We know Seamus's dad didn't know his 
> mum was a witch at first. We know his mum follows wizarding news 
> and we know he has a magical cousin who can apparate. (We don't 
> know if that cousin is now or recently was a student at Hogwarts.)
> 
> Are there any Wizard-Husband/Muggle-Wife couples? Dean's father 
> was a wizard, but I don't think anyone knew.

Lyra now:
For actual, seen-in-canon couples, I'm pretty sure it's limited to 
the Finnegans, the happy Riddle couple, and the Prince-Snape 
marriage. As Potioncat says, even Dean doesn't know his father was a 
wizard (but that's from JKR's website, not the books).
But at the same time, in CoS Ron says "If we [wizards] hadn't 
married muggles, we'd have died out" [Chapter 7], which makes it 
sound a lot more prevalent than is reflected by what we've seen in 
the books. Unless Ron is talking vaguely about "the olden days" and 
it's just not done anymore, you'd think there'd be more Hogwarts 
students from mixed backgrounds.

I'd always assumed the Finnegans were still together, but then 
someone pointed out to me we never see Mr. Finnegan, just Mrs. 
Finnegan. But the places we see her, such as the QWC and in 
Hogsmeade for the funeral, aren't places a muggle would likely go 
anyway, so I'll let you decide if Seamus' parents are still together 
for yourself.


Lealess wrote:
> > Perhaps witches are even forbidden to disclose their magic to 
> > their purely-Muggle intendeds until after marriage because of the 
> > Secrecy Act.  And Muggles being what they are (Dursleys), there 
> > may not be a lot of tolerance for magic after marriage.

Lyra again:
I've wondered, too, if there might be some stipulation against 
revealing magic before you're married. [somehow, I wouldn't put such 
a stupid rule above the MoM.] If that's the case, well there's 
nothing like a little disception to get a marriage off on the wrong 
foot, is there?  

But the fact that some witches/wizards can (apparenly) disguise 
their magic enough to fall in love with, get engaged and marry 
someone before they reveal they are magical (to their spouses' 
astonishment) suggests wizards are much better at moving in muggle 
society than most of the pureblood wizards we've seen seem to be. 

Lyra.