Every woman is looking for her happily ever after and a perfect marriage – but for a perfect marriage, one needs to find their perfect match! No need to waste one’s time dithering over dance cards or wondering what to do to get a gentleman to pay calls on you: we have provided you all the details you need to discern your preference in potential husbands, and just how to catch their eye.

The Arrogant Achiever
So what if he believes he’s better than everyone else – maybe he is. You’re hardly about to settle for less than perfection, yourself. You want a man of confidence and ambition – a man who knows what he wants, and excels at what he does. Men like these may be found in the Ministry, often waiting in the wings to advance beyond their position – see Mr. Timoleon Maxime or Mr. Charles Macmillan – or entrepreneurial sorts with prestige positions and an excellent pedigree, like Mr. Thaddeus Flint or Mr. Raphael Malfoy.

How to keep up with someone with impossible expectations? In cases like these, sarcasm can be the most effective secret weapon up a lady’s sleeve. Disarming is your way: show off your most unique attributes to show you are the furthest thing from common, but be sure to challenge him too. He is not used to being bested... find a way to wound him (metaphorically – or physically, if need be) and he’ll be in your thrall forever.

The Eccentric Intellectual
Forget rakish quidditch players, the mind is the only muscle that matters to you. The only way you want to be stimulated is in deep discussion and in giving birth to experimental new ideas. This gentleman might be overlooked by others, but your eye is as sharp as your wit, so you don’t miss a trick – and an independent spirit is of great use here, because you will never be their first love. If you can accept that, and will not be bored to tears by their lectures, then you will be perfect companions-in-oddity. These men might be proper professors – Mr. Mason Skeeter (Herbology), or Mr. Basil Foxwood (Transfiguration), or men who have chosen stranger careers and interests, like Mr. Xavier Davies or Mr. Henry Berkwood. 

As for how they will notice you... let’s be honest, they probably won’t. This means you will need to be bold and make the first move. Study for your meetings in advance by writing a list of obscure facts in their favoured field with which you might awe and delight them, showing off your equal erudition. Otherwise, ‘lose’ a unique artifact – or an item of clothing – somewhere in their vicinity and make them honour-bound to return it to you. When they come to call, make sure they visit your special newly-installed potions laboratory/greenhouse/library. (Indeed, they will have to marry you then, for you may never get them to leave your house again.)

The Cheerful Charmer
Wait a minute. If you are to marry, you want to be swept off your feet, not bored or bickered with! Then you are looking for someone with charisma and a chivalrous manner, a truly sociable sort. He will be dazzling in society, to be sure, but may also have an exciting air of adventure about him – look for cursebreakers like Mr. Jules Wright or Mr. Endymion Dempsey, or seek out the charms and charisma of Mr. Alasdair Greyback or Mr. Desiderius Morgan. Money matters less to you than fun – but do beware that the most carefree gentlemen might err on the side of careless.

But if you want your marriage to be nothing less than a perfect adventure, you must be perfectly carefree too. That means no fretting about anything: do nothing that will ruin the fun. Plan to be unaffectedly spontaneous – wear some unconventional outfit or do something quirky and impromptu – and be sure not to take yourself too seriously. Stand out from the crowd to show him life with you would be an wonderful riot. Offer him compliments and keep him surprised, and absolutely never be mundane.

Mr. Moody & Mysterious
The life of the party isn’t the one for you: you like the man you can’t pin down, and just adore someone who is impossible to read. (At least that will keep the marriage interesting?) He is a man of layers and depths and changeable moods, with a soul-piercing gaze and perhaps a shadow of tragedy, like Mr. Elliot Carmichael or Mr. Caltheus Rookwood. That’s their past; but you’ll gladly be their future. As with Mr. Cassian Valenduris or Mr. Benedict Sterling, there is something unknowable beneath the handsome exterior...but be warned: the dark burden they seemingly carry might be that they’re actually just boring.

But how best to get their attention? Well, you could try disappearing. A man like this will be seduced by nothing more so than a good mystery, and will make it their mission to bring you back no matter the danger. Hide in plain sight, make yourself the illusion, and dream up a trail of strange but subtle clues only they will follow to you. Beyond that, a fraught near-death experience is sure to catch their eye?

The Sensitive Soul
Who has the patience for all that brooding? You’d rather marry a man who wears his heart on his sleeve. That means you’re on the hunt for those men with a softer side – you might find him in the hospital, like the has-loved-and-lost Mr. Richard Gladstone, or the healer with an artistic side, Mr. Gideon Browne. Soft-spoken and quiet, he may shy away from society’s glare by hiding in the library, like Mr. Aurelian Bell, or in the kitchen like Mr. Philip Aymslowe.

A healer, an artist, a compassionate man with a pathetically bleeding heart... you must approach him with care, like a gentle breeze on a calm evening or as a magizoologist approaches a scared unicorn. A look will do as well as a word here: their poetic imagination will practically invent the rest of your personality for you. Slow and steady wins the race here – you must present yourself before them countless times before they realise they are not likely to lose you, and by then they will be quite under your spell. Favour him with a skilful profile sketch or a romantic love letter to make your feelings known, and he may even be the one to swoon.

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Still unsure which gentleman is most suited to you? Never fear! Turn to page 2 and take our quiz: What’s My Type? to reveal all!