Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling owns the Harry Potter Universe all other claimants to anything to do with the H.P. story are simply hangers on to her glory. I thank her for allowing us mere mortals to play in her world and I promise that while I have Harry in my care nothing bad will happen to him. I will leave that to J.K.R. herself in book six.

Authors Note. In this chapter, things warm up a little bit, actually it's quite a bit.

For your interest, I do not plan any of my stories other than a general idea in my head I think of a starting point and an ending then they have to find their own way. I do sometimes keep notes of things I want to include and in my Excel I have calendars that run from 1990 to 1998 to keep me on track. But the stories have to write themselves and that is why I need a lot of encouragement.

H.P. Love is All You Need

Chapter 5. The Lull Before.

When Harry woke up the next morning he felt quite good about everything, after all what normal boy would object to the prospect of having a plethora of very attractive young ladies vying for his attention on his birthday. He knew however that he mustn't appear to be too keen on the idea, because equally Hermione and Ginny were both very, very special to him.

Having had a shower and dressed he opened his bedroom door and was immediately attacked by his two loves who were each attempting to have the first kiss of the day.

"Hold on a minute," he said, "we will have to organise something for you to take it in turns. Umm, Hermione kissed me first on Wednesday, I can't remember Thursday or Friday so today should be Ginny and you should take it in turns from now on. And it is not a strict rule, if I am down stairs and one of you comes down then we can have a good morning kiss, you two have to keep check I do not intend to."

There were no arguments so Ginny kissed him, Hermione followed her and when he said that he was hungry she said, "Well have some more tongue then," and proceeded to give it to him.

Ginny went downstairs giggling, Hermione and Harry soon followed her to breakfast.

While Dobby was filling his plate for the second time Harry said, "I think that lawks is a lovely word and we should adopt it."

Hermione who had now moved on to toast and marmalade said, "You mean that we should use it whenever we might want to swear?"

"That's a good idea," said Ginny, who was starting on the toast as well but was having difficulty deciding between Marmite and marmalade, "my mum is always having a go at me because of my colourful language, as she calls it. Lawks, flipping lawks, Oh Lawks, LAWKS, Oh lawks lawks lawks lawks lawks."

"So, I can tell that your practicing," Hermione said giggling, "but what was the last one?"

"That's for when you dye your best white blouse grey," Ginny said, "because you forgot to take the coloured clothes out of the wash first."

"Is that why your mum calls it colourful language?" Harry was attempting to contrive a totally innocent expression except the squeaks from Hermione trying to suppress her laughter was putting him off.

The trio were just finishing their meal when Tonks and Remus arrived.

After greeting them Remus said, "The Headmaster has asked us to do some work with you over the summer, we know that there are a lot of things that you want to do and we will just work around them, you are not to change any of your plans. Tonks will be helping Professors McGonagall, Flitwick and I to raise your standard in our specialist subjects, being a first class Auror, Tonks is extremely good at all of them, we are lucky that Amelia has now seconded her to you for the whole of the summer."

"We thought it best," Tonks continued, "that we use the room of requirements at Hogwarts because I've been told that we can make it into anything we want. So what do you think? Others might well join us as the summer holidays progress, when would you all like to start?"

"I had tentatively," Hermione said blushing, "pencilled in homework for the next two and a half days, so if the others don't mind too much maybe…"

"Lawks, shut up Sis," Ginny said grinning, "we will start with today and tomorrow, then we will let you know about Monday later, ok Harry?"

"Fine with me," Harry agreed, "let's get our wands."

The five of them made their way upstairs and they gathered in Harry's bedroom where Tonks told them, "As is the way with most reusable Portkey's this one will return you to where you started so we will come back to this room when we return."

She took a length of what looked like dressing gown cord out of her pocket and continued, "This one can be activated by either one of you three or me touching it with our wands."

The five of them held the cord and Tonks touched it with her wand, there was the familiar pull behind the belly button and they were deposited by the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy in the seventh floor corridor at Hogwarts.

Remus asked, "Where are we?"

Ginny answered, "We are on the seventh floor in Hogwarts."

"Where's the room of requirements then?" asked Tonks.

Harry started walking back and forward as Hermione answered, "We didn't know that you didn't know how it works so Harry is creating it now."

As she finished speaking a door appeared in the wall opposite the tapestry that Ginny opened and after taking a quick glance inside walked through, Harry immediately followed her then the others.

It was very similar to the DA room from last year except was that instead of cushions on the floor to sit on there were half a dozen large squishy armchairs.

Just as Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore came in Tonks asked, "What can you do to the room? Can you change it? Can it create an obstacle course? What can it do?"

She was looking at Albus and he said, "I think that Harry probably knows as much about what it can do as anybody, certainly far more than me."

Harry blushed slightly and said, "I am not sure that we ever explored the limits of what the room can do, if indeed there are any. If we wanted something we just asked for it and it did it for us, but remember that every thing that we asked for was inside NEWTS because we didn't know what else to ask for."

Hermione continued, "It also supplied books if we wanted them or if we needed them and also it provided equipment when we needed it."

Tonks looked a bit hesitant but asked, "Room can you give us a set of Auror training manuals?"

There was a shimmer by one of the walls then a deep, seven-foot high four-foot wide bookcase appeared, it had five shelves and they were all full.

The Auror went to check them and the titles then she said, "These go right up to Master Auror, although it won't let me look at more than the first half a dozen Senior Auror books," she added sheepishly, "that's probably because I am not actually allowed to look at them. So it obviously knows about the world around us. Room can you make an Auror Universal Test Obstacle Course?"

Growing the room stretched itself off into the distance and from the far end it started to fill itself up with what could only be the tests, until it finished with a doorway in a wall.

The Headmaster said, "Excuse me for a few minutes," and left the room.

"If you applied to be an Auror you would not be confronted with a course like this until after a fortnight's intensive training." Tonks said, "There are fifty obstacles in here and you have to pass fifteen to be allowed to continue onto the Auror Training course proper. At the end of the course you would have to pass twenty-five to graduate, thirty-five for Senior Auror and forty-five for Master Auror, nobody has ever completed the course. Mad Eye Moody did the best ever, forty-eight that was when he had two eyes and legs. If any of you get passed ten you will have done extremely well and I wish that we had three courses so that you could all start at the same time."

Expanding sideways another two doorways appeared in the wall, "It looks like your wish is my command is the order of the day." Minerva said quietly to no one in particular.

"Do you all want to try?" When the three of them agreed to try she continued, "You are not permitted to use unforgivable curses, this is not like the Triwizard Maze you will be fighting simulated Death Eaters, Dementors and dark creatures. Yes Harry?"

"You said Death Eaters, so we can use anything legal to disable them? Because when we fought them in the Ministry their accomplices kept reviving them if we only stunned them and we finished up fighting the same ones three or four times."

"Yes Harry you do what you think is best," Tonks replied, "and when any one of you would have been incapacitated your test will stop. You can stand still but you won't be able to rest, the enemy will come for you if you hesitate too long. I think that is all, you may start whenever you wish and good luck to all of you."

After a short whispered confab the trio wished each other good luck and they all entered the test at the same time, as the three students began their test three small square tables appeared, one in front of each entrance, the only thing currently on the table was a large counter.

The door opened and the Headmaster came back in with Mad Eye, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Amelia Bones.

Half a minute after he had entered the course Harry's counter clicked to one and a piece of parchment appeared on his table seconds later the same thing happened at both Ginny's and Hermione's tables.

Things now started happening certainly quicker than the seven outside could read about them all they could do was follow the counters, the three counters soon passed the fifteen mark that would have entitled them to Auror entry.

Ginny's counter stopped at twenty-two and Hermione's about five seconds later on twenty-three they were both very pleased with themselves, as well they might be.

Harry's counter eventually stopped on thirty-three and when he came out he was livid, "How on earth can you fight five invisible people spread around a room?" he asked.

"You don't," Kingsley said, "you stop them being invisible, were they disillusioned or were they under cloaks?"

Harry looked at him, "Accio cloaks! I'm an idiot. I should of thought of that. I didn't do too well did I? Sorry good morning everybody is there a problem?"

"There's no problem Harry," the Headmaster said, "they were just interested in how you would get on in the Auror tests."

Mad Eye came over and shook Harry's hand, "You just set an all time record, thirty bloody three sections you completed, we all thought your girls were marvellous going over twenty, but you were bloody incredible."

Remus was suddenly in a panic, "You're not going to tell anybody are you? If this gets out who knows what it will lead to?"

Kingsley had been checking through all three piles of parchment and he commented, "How come you used similar techniques? And over ninety percent of these Death Eaters are or soon would be dead, was that deliberate?"

Ginny said, "Over the last few days we have been talking about our mistakes in the Ministry of Magic and Harry said it earlier. When we fought in the Ministry we used stunners and things like that, it doesn't work against multiple opponents. The other Death Eaters just kept on reviving them, they usually stop functioning after they have been hit with a Reductor curse."

"Anyway," Hermione added, "it's quicker to say Reducto than Petrificus Totalus."

"But you started using disabling spells straight away when you were only facing one opponent." Kingsley said.

Hermione answered, "We are not psychic, so we have also decided that Death Eaters rarely do things alone, consequently we are always going to assume that there is more than one of them."

Tonks was smiling, "So what are we going to teach you then?"

"We could do with invisibility and some defensive shields or something?" said Harry.

Hermione pondered, "Animagus transformation might be very useful and Dementors seem to not like the light, so is there something like a sunburst spell? It would upset the opposition's vision as well and I don't thing that dementors would take too kindly to it either, it should certainly buy a bit of time."

Ginny had also been thinking, "Diffindo is all right for trimming the hedge, but what would you use to cut thick branches off trees? I think that it would be quite effective against Death Eaters and possibly dementors as well."

For the first time Amelia spoke, "So you think that we have been doing it wrong for years?"

Harry responded, "Yes I do. If these morons started to think that they might well get themselves killed or maimed, rather than just inflicting pain on others, the bullies might start thinking twice about joining Voldemort."

Hermione added, "If their left arms were missing Voldemort would have a bit of a job summoning them as well."

"Blast their balls off!" Ginny said, then she went bright scarlet and hid her face saying, "Sorry."

All the males winced.

Tonks was trying to make Ginny feel better so she said, "In principle that's not a bad idea Ginny. If we had a new law, anyone found with a Dark Mark will automatically be sterilised it would certainly make the pure blood supremacists think twice about what they were doing. Especially if we added permanent brewers droop to it."

All of the males except Harry, this time, looked appalled. Harry just looked mystified.

Ginny asked what brewers droop was, just as Dobby appeared and said, "Its is time fors yous alls too haves some lunch."

A table laden with food appeared with ten chairs, enough for every one of them to sit and have lunch, which they did and every one carried on the conversation all through it.

After lunch the adults decided that the trio should rest for the afternoon because they had to work out a suitable training programme of what would suit them best, so Tonks went with the trio back to Hermione's home where she was due to do guard duty.

x-x

Unbeknown to Harry, Ginny and Hermione had spent quite a time scheming whilst working out what they were going to do to Harry as soon as they could get him in the swimming pool. To them it seemed like a gift when from the gods when he suggested that the three of them should spend the afternoon in the pool but Harry had to confess that he couldn't swim. To his confusion this seemed to delight the girls and they took great pains to assure him that they would all have great fun if the pair of them taught him how to swim and he soon found out that they weren't joking.

The first good thing was when the girls came into Harry's room in their bikinis, so much skin and so little cloth covering their naughty bits, he went goggle eyed and then he turned his back on them. He was only wearing his swimming shorts and their attraction was very obvious.

Ginny grabbed him spinning him around, she pressed herself close against him and kissed him, when she stopped she said, "Dreamboat, if you don't look, very closely at what we are showing you, we might think that you don't like what you can see."

Hermione pulled him out of Ginny's arms so that she too could kiss him, he thought that he was going to drill a hole in her stomach and she would be annoyed but she was rubbing herself up and down against him, deliberately. "You most certainly are allowed to check out what we have to offer, darling," she said.

The three of them eventually made their way to the swimming pool and before they jumped in Hermione put an Impervius charm on his glasses to make sure that they repelled water and he would be able to see everything.

Lots of wet skin and kissing makes for a very nice time, so the girls started to teach him to swim until suddenly he panicked and thought that he was drowning and he grabbed for the anything he could reach.

He struggled and stood up quickly, he was holding a bra, which didn't have a witch in it, even in his flustered state he knew that there had been no spare bikini tops floating around in the pool.

Harry immediately closed his eyes.

Someone was shaking him and Ginny's voice entered his consciousness, "What have I told you about not looking, open your eyes now!"

Ginny was nearly fifteen and if Harry had known about such things he would of realised that she was probably a thirty four B going on C, he did realise that she was very firm and very beautiful, cheekily she smiled and said, "You like?"

"Very much!" he croaked as she moved in, put her arms around his neck, wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed him.

He thought it had been good before, but this went way off the scale beyond good.

When Ginny broke away from him he heard Hermione's voice say, "Please turn around and face me Harry?"

As Harry turned around he was very relieved to see that she still had her top on, however his relief was very short lived. He still had Ginny's bra in his hand and Hermione said, "Check how the catch on Ginny's bra works then come and take mine off, it works the same way." Harry was petrified and Hermione said timidly, "Please do it darling."

Harry checked how Ginny's bra clasp worked and he handed it back to her, again she was smiling sweetly at him as she just threw it on the side of the pool near to their towels, obviously she didn't intend putting it back on any time soon.

Forcing his legs to work he started to move slowly towards Hermione, being Hermione she was starting to get impatient as well as extremely nervous and she quickly moved to him and draped her arms languidly around his neck.

When he didn't move she said quietly, "Like Ginny, I have never offered so much of myself to a boy before, please don't reject me Harry."

He drew her to him and kissed her gently on the lips then as he was kissing her he undid her bra, she slipped it off, throwing it over her shoulder she wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed him in much the same way that Ginny had.

When the kiss ended she didn't release her legs immediately, she just leaned back a bit and said, "You may look if you want to."

His eyes were open wide, she was as beautiful as Ginny, slightly larger but just as firm, she waited a full minute and then she said quite quietly, "You can touch them if you want to, they won't break."

Ginny had been moving over towards them and Hermione released the grip with her legs to stand up again, now he could release his hands from supporting her.

Hermione took one of his hands as Ginny took the other, then at the same time they each placed one of his hands onto one of their breasts.

Then they started kissing him alternately and together.

Quite some time later Harry said, "I have been trying to work out how I managed to finish up with Ginny's bra in my hand?"

"Because I put it there." Ginny admitted sheepishly.

Harry was speechless for a few minuets and then he said, "How? Why?"

As was her way Hermione started explaining, "Ginny and I have spent some time concocting ways of moving our relationship with you forward a bit and this swimming pool episode was one of the ways we had thought of, that's the why. As for the how, I distracted you then I deliberately made you panic whilst Ginny took her bra off, so when you panicked and grabbed for something Ginny put her bra into your hand, the rest of it is history, so to speak."

After waiting a couple of minutes to let him digest what he had been told, Hermione continued, "One more thing. If there is a Hetaerae all of the girls, us included, will want you to take their virginity. Well Ginny and I would like to be your first and second please."

With a devilish grin Ginny said, "My sister is getting quite old now Harry darling and she will soon be past it, so Hermione had better be your first, but I would like to be your second i…"

Hermione had almost drowned Ginny with a huge flood of water and in no time a play fight had broken out which went on for over half an hour, all three of them thought that it might well have been the best part of the afternoon, if not their lives. With any two ganging up on the third the three of them were soon nude and a lot of bits were touched that had never ever been touched by anyone other than their owner's before.

A little later Harry acceded to their request to be the first and second, then he said with a smile, "If ever you feel the need to conspire and set me up again, please feel free to do so."

For which he received another dunking.

As promised the afternoon had certainly been fun but Harry hadn't learned to swim, 'ah well' he thought, 'there's always another day, hopefully very soon and the girls seem to realise that there has to be a Hetaerae'.

Later that evening the three of them were sprawled around the lounge when Hermione passed Harry a book that she had been reading with her quasi sister and with a completely neutral expression she said, "You need to practice some of the things in there for later."

The book had a completely plain cover so he opened it to read the title on the inner flysheet and he nearly died because the book was called, 'An Introduction To Sex For Witches and Wizards Who Through Necessity Must Remain Virgins But Don't Want To Miss Out On All The Fun That They Could Be Having If They Didn't Have To Remain Virgins,' now he was in total shock again.

As innocently as she could so as not to raise Harry's suspicion Ginny said, "Well, you need to run through some of the things in there with us, you never know, within a week you could have a Hetaerae and you wouldn't want them all to think that you were completely clueless, would you?"

Hermione said as gently as she could, "We are going to try to cure you of your catatonia around girls, it is no good you freezing up or going to pieces at the mere thought or mention of sex, you have to learn to take it in your stride and we will all appreciate it if you become good at it. So please try darling, come on now lets go up to bed."

When they reached the top of the stairs Harry kissed the girls goodnight and then he went into his room, he could hear the girls talking and giggling because they hadn't closed their bedroom door. He went into his bathroom to clean his teeth and things before going to bed but when he went back into his bedroom there were two girls already in his bed, with the book.

Very intelligently Harry said, "Wh. Wha…"

Impatiently Ginny said, "We told you down stairs that we were going to help you, so here we are. Now we don't know much about what we are doing either, so we two will take it in turns reading out the instructions for something and you will try to follow them with the other one of us."

It was a good job that Ginny didn't expect him to reply because Harry's brain had gone off on holiday without him.

In her most business like voice Hermione said, "We have decided that being as I will be the first one to lose my virginity, Ginny will be the first one to try tonight's lessons and I will read the instructions, also I will try to help if I can."

It was much later that night and the girls had quite happily gone back to their beds to sleep, Harry was just dozing off thinking if that is what I am in for from two of them, what can I expect from six.

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