Arranged Marriage: Difference between revisions

** An even more regrettable variant twins this trope with the (equally [[Fandom-Specific Plot|popular]] and equally [[Unfortunate Implications|unfortunate]]) "Hermione is adopted and really a pureblood" fanfic trope.

** If a time limit is given for Hermione to find a pureblood husband, there is often a [[Hand Wave]] about why she can't just [[Official Couple|marry Ron]], but very rarely will the possibility of her [[Citizenship Marriage|marrying Neville, Seamus, Ernie, etc.]] even be considered.

** Some fans tend to believe that the higher class Hobbit families (mainly Brandybuck and Took) marry through arrangements, which is a good way of adding fanfic drama. This belief seems to come from the fact that Merry is an only child, Pippin has three older sisters and no brothers, and only one child of his own (a son), which could suggest that the parents simply get separate bedrooms once an heir has been born. There is, however, no indication in Tolkien's work that this is actually the case.

* In ''Sweeney Todd'' fanfiction (yes, it exists), Benjamin and Lucy Barker are sometimes said to have had an arranged marriage, which is odd as (a) arranged marriages were nearly kaput by the nineteenth century, (b) it seems unlikely that Lucy's parents would aim no higher than a barber, and (c) the way the man who used to be Benjamin remembers Lucy gives every indication of it having been a love match. Of course, the arranged marriage is often used to undermine their marriage in a case of [[Die for Our Ship]].