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X-x-x-x-x chapter 9 - the first lessons x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
Their first basic sexual magic lesson had been very informative. Professor Keith was an incubus with a female and a male partner and had started the lesson with a lecture about the things they would learn. From the basic spells for cleaning, lubricating and protection to the flow of magic during sex and even sexual healing. As they had nearly all other fields of sexual magic he would not dwell on them and push them ahead quite fast because the basics were just that – basic. Another issue was that like most other magical creatures nightshades were protective and possessive about their mate – especially unbounded - so the single class was just a precaution and fit better into their already full timetable.
After the lecture Professor Keith had handed them each a tube and a dildo for practising the basic spells and was quite happy with his students but emphasised again and again that the spell was no suitable replacement of properly brewed lube with different properties varying from taste, scent to healing and protection (and other more kinky properties but he never said them aloud).
"I won't observe you while you practise giving a blow job on the dildo or doing anything else before you completed your bond. Your homework shall be getting comfortable with each other, practise the spells and play around with the dildo – it is charmed to give points from 1 for poor to 6 for outstanding. See you next Sunday." With that Professor Keith had left them in their living room. Harry blushing deep red looked at the charmed dildo. He wasn't that embarrassed when he had practised the lubrication or cleaning spell.
Severus smirked mischievously at Harry before starting to lick the dildo and gently sucking without taking his eyes off his mate.
Harry's breath hitched as Severus swirled his tongue around the dildo. His pants tightened. Spurred on by the display and trying to distract himself from the growing hardness below his waistline he started as well. Well teenage hormones could be a curse...
Finally Severus stopped and presented his dildo that sported a bright six. Harry moaned around his dildo and stopped his blow job blushing deep red. His toy showed a five.
Severus leant forward and captured his mate's lips in a gentle kiss. He lingered only a moment on the sweet lips.
"I would offer to help you with your little problem, but I don't think you are ready for this yet." He breathed.
Harry nodded and fled into the bathroom.
After a very cold shower he was ready to face his friends for lunch.
The moment Hermione spotted her friend she cast a privacy ward and six sets of very curious eyes settled upon him.
"Well? How was it?" Hermione quipped.
Harry had the doubtful pleasure to be always a few days ahead of the others because his lessons had started. The other sexual classes did not start until next week.
"It was... different. The professors for BSM are a triad but only the dominant Professor Keith had taught us today, his female partner will teach us rituals but won't be in our basic lectures as we don't have a female partner. You will get a lecture about sexual magic and its fields and about the difference with magical creatures and about dominant and submissive partners. The rest can you find out of your own..." Harry recapped quickly.
"But Harry, we only start SM-classes in our second week. That is ten days till our first lesson. Till then you will have already had your second lesson. And our books are charmed that we can't read too far ahead." Hermione whined. The point with the books had hit her hard. Having books for research, but not able to read them.
"Get used to each other, that's the best advise I can offer or else you will be very uncomfortable in class. Severus and I have a month to complete our bond..." Harry muttered. He was not allowed to tell too much and he would not be able to, the secrecy spells would take care of this.
"Makes sense. A soul-bond helps to speed up the intimacy and sexual creatures have often their own pheromones or something like this to calm and comfort their mates. We don't have the advantage. Our first night in one bed was very awkward for all of us." Draco offered as exchange information.
"We laid down with the girls in the middle and woke up with cuddling each other, how did that work?" Ron mumbled.
Both teens managed to put him at ease and he even had to chuckle at the picture of the two teens cuddling.
"Oh, I didn't mind the view. You two looked cute together." Pansy replied teasingly and relished the faint red the two were sporting.
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After lunch Harry was back in their quarter and reread his timetable.
Mo: NEWT Potions, NEWT Herbology – Lunch- free, free, (after 17:00)Warding, SP
Tue: NEWT Transfiguration, free – lunch – NEWT ComC, free
Wed: free, NEWT Potions -lunch – NEWT Charms, Healing
Thur: free, free – lunch – Herbology, Charms
Fr: Transfiguration, ComC, lunch – free
Sat: 13-15 Ancient Arts, 15-? Healing
Sun: 10-11 BSM and 13-14 Ritual
He knew very well that he would start in the future around five or six to train a bit and using the free time for ancient runes, Arithmancy, homework, and learning for his NEWTs.
Mo: p, h – l – ar, hw, w, sp
Tue: t, a – l – comc, hw/projects
Wed: free, p – l- c, heal (Harry had the feeling that Poppy would not let him go without tiring him out or something like this)
Thur: hw – l – h, c
Fr, t, comc – l-
Harry looked at his changes and leant back in his chair. He had tried to work most of the additional lessons with Rowena (she had insisted that she was the one who taught him the old runes and the real art of using and reading them) and homework into the free classes when his friends would be in their classes but left hopefully enough time open to get to know Severus and time with his friends...
"Making a study plan already, Harry?" Severus cut into his thoughts looking over his shoulder on his list.
"Yeah... I learnt last year that it was better if I want to spend time with friends and for myself."
"Your timetable is not as full as last year. Don't stress yourself too much. The first NEWT is already passed."
"Yeah, but now I have Poppy on my neck and she thinks I have to learn enough to pass my mastery in a year."
Severus sneaked his arms around Harry's shoulders.
"Don't let her get to you. She's just thrilled to get someone as powerful as you in her clutches. Most powerful wizards and witches don't show any talent in healing because they lack in compassion or filigree. Dumbledore is a Master of Transfiguration; Riddle Dark Arts; Slytherin Dark Arts and Potions, Ravenclaw charms, Arithmancy and ancient runes; Gryffindor transfiguration and defence; Hufflepuff warding, Herbology and care of magical creatures. Sure she was a master healer too but she was an exception to the rule. Great healer like Paracelsus and Gorsemore were not very powerful in comparison."
"Awe, you two are really too cute. I did not want to believe Alan." The female professor sighed and interrupted their talk.
"But I'm not here to coo at you. I'm here to teach you about rituals. Chop-chop." The energetic woman walked into the living room where the blackboard appeared like in BSM.
"I'm Helena Keith, mated to the incubus Alan Keith and bonded to James Keith. Like most other sexual classes this lesson too will be mostly theoretical. Rituals, while they are quite useful, disappeared out of our everyday life because they take time. It is faster and easier to use a spell to erect a ward than through a ritual. That is fine for small things like a privacy bubble to keep a conversation private. But some things you can't achieve without a ritual. Cleansing, blessings, fertility, curse breaking, ritual of thanks to honour magic, funerals, bondings and so much more are all rituals. Some like funerals and marriages are kept as traditions others like the bonding to a familiar fell out of use. Nowadays only very strong animals create a bond towards their wizard or witch but the bond is one-sided. They can understand you but you not them. The greatest advantage of rituals is: either they work or they don't work. A failure does usually not have any side effects so everyone who knows their rituals knows exactly that you had actively thrown the magic back at He-who-must-not-be-named, Mr. Potter. But I won't bore you with every little details. My lesson is once a week for an hour. I will introduce you to different rituals but more important basics, equipments and kinds. In a few weeks we will celebrate the one or other ritual together. Rituals can require a ritual circle, an altar, a place in the nature or just intent depending on the kind of ritual. Today we will start with the ritual room. Most old buildings have their own ritual chambers. Till the Yuletide holidays you will have learnt enough about rituals to undergo your first complicated sexual ritual. You will need it for sexual potions because it is the foundation ritual for using the body as a cauldron. Should the ritual be a success you only need an activation spell."
They walked into their ritual room and she continued to show them equipment and their function. An hour later she bid them goodbye and told them they had a month to do an essay about the ritual chamber.
"We have to face about thirty hours alone with a squirrel on energy potion while she talks about rituals, equipments, symbolism and Co? We are trying to understand why we need to be tied up and she is ten topics ahead?" Harry asked his soulmate warily.
"Good abstract of our first lesson." Severus deadpanned.
"I'm surprised that none of our teachers nor the books spoke about subs and doms of nightshades but most parts of Sexual Magic require defined roles -why is that?"
Severus put a hand on Harry's back and led him with a gentle push back to their common room.
"Nightshades do not discriminate between submissive and dominant. They are beings of equality. Humans and other beings don't have that advantage, they have to experiment or are bound by their instincts. Sometimes they need to practise a ritual, potion and so on for many days until they found their place. Sometimes they have even to reverse their roles. That's what making sexual magic difficult. Some sexual creatures have their instincts to help them, but not always is their partner happy with this what again might hinder the flow of magic."
"So we don't have destined roles and are better off than other couples who have to find their roles?"
"Indeed. But as no nightshade talks about submissive and dominant there would be no book about this and other sexual creatures simply acknowledge it but don't refer to it. For them it's unnatural not to have a designated role. Because of this you will not find a nightshade mated with another sexual creature."
"So I take care of you and you will take care of me?" Harry smiled at the concept. He could live with it. He was tired of being the strong one day in day out but he knew himself well enough that he would be very annoyed over time, should he have to be submissive every day.
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They spent the next hours in comfortable silence – at their respective desks. Severus prepared for his classes and Harry worked on his mobile phone project.
Harry did not even notice that their door had been replaced by a portrait on both sides of the room.
"Harry, Professor Snape. You have guests." The silky voice got Harry thinking and he looked up.
"Lord Slytherin?" Severus asked unbelievingly.
"Sal? What have you done that you were degraded to watching our door?" Harry blinked.
"Ah, we gave the house-elves the order to place our portrait in your rooms. It wouldn't do if you can't continue our lessons and discussions. And as you are a founder's heir you have the right to have our portraits here. But you have still guests."
"Let them in." Severus replied while Harry was looking for the other founders bemusedly. True to Salazar's words in the common room was a portrait of all four founders. Helga pouted and complained about the lack of music.
"Oh, Professor Snape, is Harry here?" Hermione distracted him enough.
"Come in you lot." Severus ordered in professor-mode but surprising everyone the young adults had never thought the potions master would invite students into his quarters willingly.
With a wave of his hand Harry tidied his project away and walked up to the quartet. Severus squeezed his shoulder when he passed the older man and left through their bedroom into his teacher's quarter.
The boys gazed after their professor while Hermione's attention lay solely on Harry.
"Well? You had the next course, don't tell me you did forget that you wanted to tell us the basics about the class. How is the professor? What have you done?"
"The second professor Keith is our ritual teacher. She is quite energetic and explained us how rituals are everywhere and went with us into the ritual chamber and explained every detail. We have a month to do our homework, an essay about the chamber."
"Oh, I'm going to be envious. Once a month? In our description was written that we got weekly assignments." Pansy pouted.
Harry led the quartet to the sitting area in front of the fireplace.
"Professor Keith has spoken so fast that we were still thinking about the first part while she explained ten others. But she assured us that all information was found in our books and she wanted to show us the equipments. Being in one-on-one lessons have their pros and cons. I get homework once a month but our teachers are going on faster."
"Did you have Ancient Arts yesterday, mate?" Ron sat down too and glanced around to find anything art related.
"No, Ron. Ancient arts starts next week. But I got caught in Madam Pomfrey's clutches. She handed me eight thick tomes." Harry shook his head.
"You got into her class? That's great then I have class together with you on Monday evening?" Pansy asked excitedly.
"Er...no. I have sexual potions and warding on Mondays. I'm in the infirmary on Wednesdays and Saturdays from three to at least six."
Pansy and Hermione giggled.
"You are right. She sank her fangs into you and I don't think she wants to let go." Draco choked on a suppressed laughter.
"I know for a fact that she only required one book 'First Aid – Foundation for accidents and common maladies.'" Pansy continued laughing at Harry's stunned face.
"Mate, I think you will want to compare notes with us regularly. I'm afraid our professors are thinking you are bored after last year and with ditching DADA." Ron joined in the laughter.
"A Malfoy laughs together with a Weasley. I had never thought I would ever see this." Severus replied emotionless as he returned into their common room.
"Severus, please warn me if more professors are thinking I'm bored in classes." Harry pleaded desperately. Sure, he was not used to having much free time and had filled his time with projects to keep himself busy enough to prevent thinking about all the happenings in the past war but there was no need for the professors to quip in.
"Hm, warning. Minerva has just told me a few strategies to keep a certain phoenix animagus occupied in class this year as you are mainly learning human transfiguration. I think she wants to test you on metamorph abilities."
"Thanks, that's really assuring..." Harry deadpanned.
"In exchange you do not need to worry about your transfiguration NEWT any more. She has also hinted to me that a successful animagus transformation guarantees a passing grade even if you should flunk the written part completely."
The other teens groaned. Sure, Harry had been overworked but in exchange he seemed to get his NEWTs without any efforts.
"Harry, I don't like to burst your dreams, but if I were a professor of you I would, too, seek new work for you." Hermione smirked.
"Can you teach us to become animagi, mate? I would like to pass transfiguration, too." Ron grinned.
Hermione glanced at her defence professor and lowered her voice to a whisper.
"Be careful that no teacher finds your project notes or you won't stop working this year. I could imagine Professors Flitwick, Burbage and Babbling could find it very interesting."
Harry groaned and sank back into the couch.
"Projects?" Draco inquired curiously getting immediately the attention of the other Slytherins in the room.
"Now you have done it Hermione..." Harry hissed slightly.
"So, is the saviour of the wizarding world after all the additional training that bored that you need to fill your time with projects?" Pansy teased.
"I'm just tinkering around with a few ideas..." Harry dodged the question. He would never admit of being bored...he just liked to stay busy.
"My father told me about your last idea with which you were tinkering around. You are already the founder of the Wiz-taxi. They became popular rather fast especially for families and pregnant people as they are more indulgent than the Knight Bus. Without public knowledge that they were your idea and founding." Draco snorted.
Harry muttered something about noisy blonds that could not keep their mouth shut.
"Are you going to confess what your projects are about, Harry?" Severus inquired smirking.
"I'm experimenting with a combination of charms and runes to convert magic into electricity, they are working quite well for any devices from the size of a radio and larger even in purely magical environment but I'm still adjusting smaller devices. I want to transfer the muggle idea of mobile phones and internet too..." Harry sighed and confessed.
Hermione and Ron blinked, that it was already working was news for them, too, but the other three looked at him with blank faces.
"Harry, if you ever complain about being bored I will sneak your projects to the other professors." Pansy replied tonelessly.
"With Madam Pomfrey in my neck and McGonagall on my case I won't have time for anything else than school. Besides I left everything except two books at home." Harry deflected.
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