He refrained from raising an eyebrow when she mentioned her husband’s brother – the brother as well? He didn’t quite understand it, but of course Jude had been much too young at the time to remember Hanrahan’s turning. But he had trained as a lawyer at the Ministry himself, so he had heard tell about the former department head who’d been turned, abruptly, unfortunately, into a vampire.
Anyway. The point was – “All I mean to say by that, is that he – they – contribute to magical society like any other citizen, and the laws should respect them as much as anyone else.” It would be a different story if they were – feral vampires, the kind who murdered. But that ought to apply to humans and non-humans just alike. And so, Jude supposed, should the marriage laws. “If one strives to live within the law, the law should not force them outside it.”
Anyway. The point was – “All I mean to say by that, is that he – they – contribute to magical society like any other citizen, and the laws should respect them as much as anyone else.” It would be a different story if they were – feral vampires, the kind who murdered. But that ought to apply to humans and non-humans just alike. And so, Jude supposed, should the marriage laws. “If one strives to live within the law, the law should not force them outside it.”
