In such a case, Harry (or another friendly noble house) may be able to adopt Hermione, take the blood-debt on the House, and pay it another manner…
Has been suggested before. Rather than adoption, a betrothal contract could work. However, needs approval of Dumbledore (Harry’s legal guardian) and would still need a Wizengamot vote to transfer the penalty from Hermione to Harry (since the Wizengamot has already, in this chapter, voted to punish Hermione). And the Wizengamot isn’t going to vote to send the Boy-who-Lived to Azkaban to die—think of the political repercussions!
Remember how strangers in the street think of Harry, now imagine how they’d think of those in the Wizengamot who sentenced him to death for being self-sacrificial and loyal to his friends. Lucius would never ask such a thing of the Wizengamot, nor would they vote in favor if he did.
Has been suggested before. Rather than adoption, a betrothal contract could work. However, needs approval of Dumbledore (Harry’s legal guardian) and would still need a Wizengamot vote to transfer the penalty from Hermione to Harry (since the Wizengamot has already, in this chapter, voted to punish Hermione). And the Wizengamot isn’t going to vote to send the Boy-who-Lived to Azkaban to die—think of the political repercussions!
Remember how strangers in the street think of Harry, now imagine how they’d think of those in the Wizengamot who sentenced him to death for being self-sacrificial and loyal to his friends. Lucius would never ask such a thing of the Wizengamot, nor would they vote in favor if he did.