AN: Check the first chapter for disclaimers.

Whoops, I accidentally uploaded the wrong chapter. Kudos to those who were able to read the draft, but here's the real ch 25.


The first match of the Quidditch world cup group stage was between the favorites, Ireland, and a relatively mediocre team from Tunisia. However, people still were excited because of the display screens that were being used for the first time ever to broadcast the match.

Helen had included Adrastia Zabini into the core team of GWC and she had used her influence in Europe to place the screens in ever more regions of the continent as well as several places in northern Africa, Asia and South America.

A week before the start of the match, the flashing display on the screen had changed, along with the countdown, there were also animated figures playing Quidditch, making it obvious that the screen had something to do with the world cup. Two days before the match, Howard gave an interview, which was published in all the world's major newspapers, declaring that the screens were put up by the firm he had co-founded. He also strongly suggested that everyone should keep an eye on them as the countdown neared its end.

An hour before the match, a crowd had started gathering near the screens all over the world, curious to see what it was. Most of the muggleborns had already correctly guessed that it was some kind of display screen, similar to a television, and would show the match live.

With half an hour to go, the screens went blank for a few moments, before letters started zooming in on it. They slowly formed the words:

'Global Wizarding Communications'

People finally realized what GWC stood for, but didn't have long to wonder what it meant. Soon the screen lit up and showed a couple of men sitting, facing towards the viewers. The man on the left smiled and started speaking.

"Greetings, my fellow Wizards and Witches. My name is Howard Robinson and I'm the co-founder of Global Wizarding Communications. Alongside me is Christopher Harding and together we will be hosting the world's first ever live telecast of Quidditch."

A huge cheer went up when people realized they would be able to watch a live Quidditch match as if they were there in the stadium.

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The screening of the match was a huge success despite the match being a one-sided affair. Helen had to lend her elves to Howard to help him deal with the huge amount of congratulatory mail he was receiving from all over the world. At the end of the match, Howard had talked about GWC and all they were going to do. He had informed viewers that the sale of smaller home sized screens would soon begin and pre-order would open very soon.

He also told the masses that Quidditch was not the only thing that would be shown on the screens. They would have news segments, entertainment in the form of theatrical shows and music, as well as educational and informative pieces.

They had set up a production factory which was working day and night to produce units of various sizes. So far they had acquired three shops, one in London, Paris and Milan each and soon they would be set up to start selling the display screens or DS for short, as they had started calling them. The London branch was in the Diagon Alley near the entrance from Leaky Cauldron. For other places, mail-order network would be used for now, until they were able to set up an outlet in every country.

So far, Helen's name was not out yet as the co-founder of the GWC, but it was only a matter of time before that became public as her name was there as the majority owner on all the registrations, permits and licenses. She was already mentally preparing herself for another Rita Skeeter interview.

Recently, Helen had sold 20% of her holdings to Adrastia and it had cost the latter a fortune, but the 'black widow' was a shrewd woman and knew that the millions she had spent would pay dividends for years to come as the company was bound to become globally successful. Now, the country was jointly owned by Helen, Howard and Adrastia. Helen still held the majority share with sixty percent of the company while Howard and Adrastia held twenty percent each. Together they decided that there would be no more partners and the three of them would hire or procure whatever was required to run and grow the business.

Adrastia and Howard had agreed to handle the day-to-day management and running of the firm jointly, including human resources, programmes, advertisements, marketing and sales, while Helen would look after the production and research departments, neither of which required a hands-on approach.

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The first morning of the holidays found Helen not relaxing, but working hard, practicing air elemental magic. Air was the most volatile element and required the highest level of concentration to make it work. So far, Helen had managed to lift small items with air, create gusts of winds that had ruffled her clothes and conjured miniature cyclones minus the rain.

Now, she was working on turning wind into a destructive weapon. She started small, trying to create blades to cut the dummies. Concentrating, Helen thrust her hand forward and a small shallow cut appeared on the dummy's chest. Satisfied with the result, she again tried this time trying to make the cut long and deep, but was only partially successful. The resultant cut was longer but no deeper than before.

Frowning, Helen thought for a while and decided to take a different approach. Instead of making the cut longer and deeper, she tried visualizing multiple cuts and once more thrust her hand. Several cuts appeared on the dummy's chest and abdomen, and if it had been human, it would have died quickly unless treated immediately. Helen practiced for another half an hour, only trying to make the cuts deeper as longer length was no longer necessary. She soon succeeded in making them deep enough to be immediately lethal.

Helen paused for a drink of water and a breather before moving on to the next activity. This time, she was going to combine different elements. She first conjured water on the floor. Next she channeled fire and introduced heat in the water, instantly vaporizing it and turning it into a dense mist, which made it difficult to see through it. She worked on this for a while trying to get the mist to appear instantaneously. Once she achieved that target, Helen tried bringing variations to it. Instead of using it just as a distraction, Helen tried turning the mist into a weapon by overheating it. She got first degree burns on her hands for her effort, but now knew that it could be done.

After healing herself, she continued practicing until she perfected the skill and moved on. Next, instead of introducing heat, she sucked it out from the conjured water, turning it into ice. Again she practiced till she was able to launch ice spears from her palms.

Finally done with practice for the day, Helen left the basement and went out the back to look at the snow. After absorbing the beautiful sight, Helen moved towards the hot-tub outside the temperature controlling ward and activated the heating rune. Once the water was hot, she stripped and entered the water to relax for the day and called Tinny for some snacks.

As she sipped her hot chocolate, she contemplated on what she had achieved so far and how far she still had to go. She was progressing quickly through the elemental magics and estimated that she would be done with the air element by the end of the year, sooner if she focussed on it entirely. However, while elemental magics were quite advanced and devastating in the hands of an expert, mastery of them was not Helen's ultimate target. Instead, they were just a stepping stone in Helen's journey to true mastery of magic.

She had realised quite early on that she could not emulate Voldemort's style of combat. Helen estimated that it would be at maximum only five years before she and Voldemort would have a show-down. In that period she would not be able to match Voldemort for his magical strength. She might match his speed but that was unlikely as well. So to even try to match his style was foolish.

Instead, Helen was trying to follow the combat style of Dumbledore. Dumbledore, whatever his faults, was an extremely proficient mage. He did not have Voldemort's strength or speed yet still every time they had faced off, Voldemort was the one who had to retreat. The reason was Dumbledore used his magic with such efficiency and intelligence that his shortcomings didn't matter.

Dumbledore very rarely used spells to achieve his desired result. Instead, he manipulated magic at a very basic and primal state, bending it to his will and making it act on his whim, changing and modifying it with just a thought.

In order to manipulate magic at such a level, one needed to have a masterful understanding of the basic concept of magical principle. For all his brilliance, Tom Riddle never went that deep into the primary structure of magic as his aim wasn't to understand the principles of how magic worked. No, his entire focus was on how to become strong and immortal. He succeeded in achieving what he set out to achieve. However, that knowledge wouldn't help Helen, as she was either unable or unwilling to go to the lengths Riddle had gone to achieve his goal.

Helen knew, of course, that she would reach Voldemort's level of magical strength eventually, but the timeframe to achieve that would be too long, and time was something she didn't have.

So Helen had gone for another route. The reason why she was studying elemental magic as well as alchemy and enchanting was because each of those branches relied on understanding the underlying principles of magic. However, each looked at them from a different standpoint. Elemental magic was the study of the effect of magic on the basic elements of the universe, and how a witch could manipulate them using her magic.

Enchanting was the study of the relation between matter, energy and magic, on how either of them could not be created but only changed in form. Muggles had also partially understood this concept but since they could not perceive magic, they would never be able to discern the true conservation principle of the universe. Helen chuckled recalling the physics study she had read about 'dark matter' and 'dark energy', futile attempts by muggle scientists to understand the universe. Alchemy, on the other hand, studied the interaction between matter, energy and magic, it was like a complete version of muggle chemistry.

By the end of the school year, Helen would only have one element left to study and hopefully she would be done with it a year from now. She had been focusing on elemental studies because she still hadn't met the prerequisites for studying advanced alchemy, which was a mastery in potions. Also, of all the three branches, elemental magic was the only one which Voldemort had paid any attention to, so Helen already knew a bit about them before she started, as demonstrated by her quick mastery of fire and water elements.

As Helen popped a grape into her mouth, her mind wandered to the prophecy she had heard last year. Earlier, she had assumed that the 'power he knows not' could be anything ranging from certain branches of magic that Volldemort had completely ignored to white magic that she had started practicing just because of the words of the prophecy. But the more she thought about it, the more she realized that the words were not referring to what she could learn. They were referring to what she already knew and Voldemort didn't. She knew him inside out, literally, by having all his memories. She knew how he thought, his patterns, his strengths, his fears and his shortcomings.

Voldemort, in turn, knew absolutely nothing about her. Sure once he gained a body, he would try to learn everything about her, but the public persona she had created for herself was nothing like her real self. And that was all he would find, because those who knew the real Helen were either oath bound to her or dead. Thus, 'the power he knows not' literally meant what he didn't know about Helen and what she knew about him.

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Helen was spending Christmas Eve at the Diggory's. She had arrived in the morning, dressed in a white sweater with small red reindeers on it and black knee high boots. Her accessories matched her outfit, with a cylindrical red coral pendant hanging over her chest and huge garnet earrings.

As soon as she arrived, Helen had noticed the small but noticeable bump Catherine had. She immediately went and hugged the women, congratulating her, while suppressing a victorious smirk. During tea, the elder Diggorys informed her that the baby was due in early April and that it was a boy, much to Helen's delight.

While Cedric was helping his mother prepare lunch, Amos invited Helen to his study.

As he took his seat behind the desk, Amos began "This is something I would have preferred to talk with your guardian, however, since they are muggle, I doubt they would understand the significance of this discussion, no offense to their mundane status."

Helen, having settled in one of the armchairs in front of Amos' desk replied "None taken. I'm guessing you want to talk about Cedric and my relationship as well as discuss the terms of a possible betrothal."

Raising his eyebrow, Amos commented, "I'm impressed that you realised that. Though to be completely honest, I had surmised that you would have the knowledge about betrothals and an inclination of my thoughts. You are rather smart, from what I've gathered and what my son has told me about you. Let's discuss the details now."

Gathering his thoughts, he continued, "House Potter has a higher status than House Diggory, and since you are the last member of your family, your husband will have to take your name instead of the other way round. I would have been opposed to that in Cedric's case until recently, when we got our surprising but happy news. Once Cedric's younger brother is born, I can make him the heir to the house of Diggory, as Cedric has already indicated to me that he is willing to take the name Potter."

Helen smiled and spoke in return, "Thank you, Amos, I'm glad you understand my situation and are courteous to consider such an option. Of course, the dowry has to be adjusted considering your concession. Since I doubt you are interested in any of the Potter properties, how about one million galleons and a five percent share in Spark Apparels."

Amos' jaw had dropped on the desk hearing the dowry value. It was probably the heaviest dowry ever in the history of magical Britain by far. The current highest value was from the Blacks to the Malfoys at around two hundred thousand galleons.

He regained his composure and said, "That's very generous, however, I think you should consult with your solicitor before we agree on anything." He didn't want to take advantage of her and probably thought that the dowry was perhaps too generous.

Helen consented to his advice, and they discussed some more regarding time period, children and alliances before joining the rest of the family for a festive evening.

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Yesterday, Helen's peace and quiet was disturbed when Susan flooed to her place dragging her trunk his her and crying her eyes out. Apparently she and Amelia had a complete fallout over Christmas when Amelia had completely ignored Susan during the family holiday and had spent all of her time away from home, not even bothering to get a gift for Susan. When Susan had confronted her, they had a huge row which ended up severing whatever connection they had left between them. Helen had spent the whole day yesterday consoling the distraught girl, while really between quite gleeful at this development on the inside. After penning a letter to Amelia about Susan's whereabouts, as Helen wanted to maintain her relations with Amelia, she offered Susan her house to stay for as long as she wanted.

Today, Helen had coaxed Susan to join her in the hot tub for relaxing. Thinking that they would be alone, Susan had opted to wear a very revealing black high cut monokini which showed the underside of her breasts and barely covered her lower bits. Helen had matched her in her boldness and had gone for a turquoise g-string bikini with a top which barely covered her nipples and a bottom which was just three strings and one small triangle, despite knowing what or rather who would be coming soon.

They had been in the tub for barely five minutes, when Tinny informed Helen that her guests were here and the Potter heiress told her to bring them down. When Susan nervously inquired who it was, Helen merely smirked and said, "Someone who will like our choice of swimwear very much."

Soon her guests walked in, revealing them to be a pair of redhead twins. Fred and George stood there, with their jaws on the floor, gawking at the sight of skimpily clad sexy girls in the hottub. Helen had deliberately invited them so as to cheer up her friend and judging by the blush as well as the looks the girl was giving the boys, Helen had succeeded.

"Well, Fred, George, are you going to just stand and stare all day or are you going to join us?"

The twins didn't need any more prompting and quickly stripped off their clothes. Helen casually transfigured their boxers into short form fitting swimming trunks, which both the girls appreciated very much as it showed the boy's appreciation and they entered the tub. They sat on either side of the girls, sandwiching them in between, with Fred sitting next to Susan and George next to Helen, unable to keep their eyes off the tantalizing display of flesh between them.

As Susan started flirting with Fred, Helen engaged George in casual conversation, "So, George, how's your family?"

George replied, as Fred also started flirting back at Susan, "Family is doing great. We had a great Christmas as the whole family was present."

Helen asked "Tell me about your family. I don't know much about Weasleys apart from those in Hogwarts."

"Well," George began, "You already know Percy, me and Fred as well as the youngest two Ron and Ginny. Apart from that we have two elder brothers. Bill, William, is the eldest and works as a curse breaker of Gringotts in Egypt."

Helen was impressed, as she knew curse breaker was a complicated profession and required expertise in various fields including runes, curses and arithmancy. Gringotts was especially stringent in their selection criteria, so it made Bill even more impressive.

George continued, "Next is Charlie. He graduated from Hogwarts a couple of years before you joined and is currently in Romania, working as a dragon handler, taming dragons in a reserve."

Again, Helen was impressed, as one had to be brave, daring as well as a little crazy to tame dragons as a profession.

"Our father works in the ministry while our mother is a housewife."

"You parents must be doing something right to have such a talented bunch of children. A Curse Breaker, a Dragon Tamer, a headboy who is bound for the ministry, a pair of twins who have already started their own business and a talented daughter who probably will end up playing Quidditch professionally."

George was surprised at her assessment of Ginny, "Really, you think Ginny is that good?"

"Oh yeah, she has a natural talent for it. Once she starts learning the technicalities and paying attention to all the minor details she could probably go on to become one of the best players this country has produced in a long time. In fact, within a few years she probably will be better than me as well. And I wouldn't be surprised if clubs and country come calling while she's still in school."

"Huh," George replied thoughtfully, "I guess she did fly quite well in her first game."

He paused and looked at her sideways, "I noticed you didn't mention Ron."

"Nope, I did not," Helen replied nonchalantly.

"I guess that's alright. We know he hasn't found his passion yet and keeps trying to emulate one of us instead of creating his own identity. He will do alright once he matures a bit."

"Hmm," Helen commented, not really having anything to add in this context.

George then started talking about the joke products he and his twin had already developed and various ideas they had that were still in the works. Before they could continue with their conversation though, they were distracted by sounds coming from their other side. They both turned left to see that Susan was straddling Fred and the two of them were making out furiously, with one of their arms disappearing under water. Turning to each other, George blushing slightly but with a hopeful expression, as Helen raised an eyebrow. She looked back at the kissing pair and smirked at her success to bring Susan out of her funk. Turning back, she pulled George to her to start her own make-out session.

An hour later, Helen was teaching Susan some combat magic, with the twins having left a few minutes ago. They hadn't engaged in anything other than snogging and some light petting, though the girls had exchanged the positions to have a sample of both the twins.

"Alright, show me what you already know. Start with defensive spells." Helen instructed. Susan took a sideways stance and started casting. Quarter of an hour later, she was resting after casting continuously and listening to what Helen had to say.

"You have learned a lot and are quite advanced, equal to a sixth or seventh year already. That is good, but our enemies wouldn't be throwing school level curses at us. What I'm going to teach you now are some of the so-called dark magic curses. These spells have one purpose and one purpose alone, to hurt your opponent."

Looking at the apprehension in Susan's face, Helen added "Afterall, an opponent who is writhing on the ground in pain is unlikely to throw a curse at you."

Seeing that the Hufflepuff still needed convincing, Helen continued in a compelling voice "In fact, next time you face them, they will be wary of you, knowing that you can hurt them. They will be respectful, they will be afraid. Afraid of what you will do if they don't comply with your wishes. This gives you power over them. They cannot hurt you and you can make them bow down to your will."

Helen smiled after finally seeing a spark in Susan's eyes and whipped her wand out after the other redhead gave her a nod to continue.

"Today I'll teach some simple curses which will cause physical damage to your targets. They are derived from some common curses and hexes, but modified in such a way that they have one purpose only, which is to cause physical damage."

"The first one is the bone breaking curse. This is a more specific and concentrated derivation of the blasting curse which targets, as the name implies, the skeleton of the target. The outcome of the curse will depend on the visualisation and the power you put in the curse. For example, if you visualize the femur of your opponent breaking and you apply enough power in the spell, that is what it will do."

"However, visualisation is the key. If you could visualize it properly, you can very easily kill your opponent with this spell. I'll demonstrate it for you now."

She pointed her wand towards the dummies and clearly enunciated 'Afflicto', deliberately using the wand movements. A white bolt shot out from her wand and hit the dummy's leg. The result was obvious, as the dummy collapsed with its leg bent in an unnatural and extremely painful looking position. She trailed her wand onto the next dummy and cast faster this time but still using the wand movement for Susan's benefit. The ribcage of the dummy collapses inwards, and would have punctured its lungs, liver and probably heart as well if it had any.

The next dummy had all the bones in its neck broken and the fourth one had its skull imploded. Helen lowered her arm and looked at Susan, who was looking at the results with awe and excitement. Helen suppressed a smirk when she saw Susan's nipples trying to poke out of her tank top. She had her own Bellatrix in the making.

They continued for another hour as Helen taught her a few more spell, including 'Perforo', the perforating curse, the magical equivalent of a bullet as well as 'Obtrunco Deripio', the mutilating curse, which left long deep cuts on the victim's body, somewhat like a lesser version of Sectumsempra, the curse Severus invented, and a bit easier to heal.

Done with training, the two girls went up to the main floor for a quick bite. Afterwards, Helen took Susan along with her to a photoshoot she was scheduled for, modelling for a popular sportswear line. Susan was amazed by the variety the muggles had just for sportswear, as even Spark didn't have this much variety in the sports category, something Helen wanted to address in future.

After hours of posing in front of the camera, Helen decided to do some shopping therapy to relax and took Susan to Harrod's for a makeover. Susan did require almost a whole new wardrobe, as she had outgrown most of her clothes recently, except for those she had bought in summer from Helen's store. She had also started to particularly like dark clothes, leaning towards a gothic fashion sense. They ended up buying a lot of black articles of various materials ranging from leather and fishnets to lace and velvet. Helen had added some color by selecting items with scarlet or purple highlights as well as some metallic accessories.

A tired but content pair of girls landed in the Potter Manor late that night, after having decided to explore a dance club and a few cute boys within.

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It was late in the night and Susan was sound asleep in her room when Helen arrived in her basement after a few hours of sleep. She came up to the far end of the hallway and stood facing the blank wall. Whipping out her wand, she started working on creating the portal that would become the entranceway to her own room of requirement, she hoped.

Helen had advanced far enough into her studies of enchanting that she had started looking into the extensive work that was done by the founders in creating the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts. And Helen thought that she could replicate the same, though it would take a long long time to complete it. However, she could still make a more basic version of the room with certain presets rather quickly.

It took almost two hours of Helen using her wand and rune etching tools to complete the intrinsic and complex schematic that was the framework of the portal. Getting up off the floor after inscribing the last rune, Helen carefully looked over the work she had done. Most of the wall was covered in runes in the shape of a Tudor style archway or the four-centred arch. All that was left now was to activate the portal.

Taking a deep breath, Helen focused her magic and channeled it into the framework. The Runes started activating one after another, glowing in a mild silver light, giving the portal an ethereal look. Once the last rune activated, the whole portal flashed once brightly before going back to its mild intensity.

Seeing that the portal remained stable, Helen let a smile take over her face, before stepping into a seemingly solid wall and entering the pocket dimension she had created. Because that was what it exactly was, a pocket dimension. Just like the Room of Requirement, which also didn't really exist in the physical world but only had a gateway in the real world in the form of the vanishing door on the seventh floor of Hogwarts.

Like the Room of Requirement, Helen's pocket dimension also only had a gateway in the real world. Unlike Room of Requirement, however, only Helen could enter in this dimension, for now, and it didn't require her to walk three times in front of the gate. However, unlike Room of Requirement, her dimension was completely empty.

As Helen entered her dimension, it looked to her as if she had stepped inside a giant dark purple sphere. Helen found herself floating in space within a sphere about hundred metres wide that was completely monotone and monochrome except for the gateway which glowed in a contrasting silver. The reason why her space was barren was because what she had essentially created was her own mini universe, which was empty. Since she had the ownership of this space, she could start modifying it to her own will and give it structure, shape and size.

All pocket dimensions started as spheres as that was the natural shape of any body, unless some external force was acting on it. In this case, the external force was Helen's will and soon the dimension had changed to look like a tall and long rectangular hall and had gravity, making it possible for Helen to stand. Satisfied with her first change, Helen made the changes permanent, or else the next time she entered the space, it would have reverted to its original spherical shape without the presence of Helen's will. Though everytime Helen would take control of the space, she could will it to any shape, size and form as she desired with just a thought. The hall was just a default shape the dimension would revert to once Helen left the pocket dimension. With her first change done, she started a long and extensive job of turning the empty dimension into a place which could conjure anything the user desired just like the room of requirement.

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Early in the morning of 31st December, Susan left Helen to join the Abbott's where she had been invited by Hannah to join them for the new year celebration. Helen, however, wasn't going to welcome the new year alone, as both Cedric and Hermione were going to join her and would remain till the school resumed a few days later. They were going to try cohabitating for these days to see if their relationship could work as a Ménage à trois.

Hermione arrived only a few minutes after Susan left, with the assistance of Tinny, whom Helen had sent to Granger's place for this purpose. The girls were catching up for only ten minutes before the fireplace turned green and Cedric stepped out from it, dragging his truck with him.

Helen smiled and got up to welcome him, giving him a kiss. Hermione also approached and tentatively gave him a hug and a little kiss on his check, making Cedric grin like a fool. Shaking her head fondly, Helen pulled them to the dining room for a light breakfast, since none of them had eaten yet. Over breakfast they decided that they would stay at home instead of going out and spend time working, studying and living together and just enjoying the company.

After breakfast, Helen gave them a house tour ending in the basement. Helen also showed them her pocket dimension which was still very basic but impressive nonetheless. Both her lovers were extremely impressed and awed, especially when they realised that Helen was probably the only person to create her own dimension in the world, after the founders of course, who created the room of requirement. Next they went to the shooting range to practice spells. Helen had them practicing combat magic and duelling each other, while she analysed their styles and forms. Neither of them were very aggressive, very unlike Blaise, Susan or herself, but it didn't mean that they were incompetent.

Hermione excelled in defensive magic and was very methodical as well as efficient with her magic, while also having a vast repertoire of spells and curses. She needed all those to keep up with Cedric who was stronger and much faster than the Gryffindor. Cedric was one of those rare fighters who used transfiguration as their primary branch of magic for offense and defense. Helen only knew of Dumbledore, McGonagall and her father who used this style. While he was nowhere near their level, Cedric was still quite good and had soon trapped Hermione in unbreakable bonds, before disarming her.

After the duel, Helen made them work on their weaknesses. For Hermione it was simple, in theory at least. She just had to increase her speed and make her magic stronger, both of which could be done only with practice. Helen made her practice sustaining spells till she could do no more. For Cedric, the work was a bit more complicated, Helen had to teach him a secondary style of fighting for the scenarios where transfiguration wouldn't be an advantage, like for example, against someone very powerful like herself or Voldemort, who would easily destroy his transfigurations or against someone who was better at the transfiguration game like Dumbledore or McGonagall. Apart from that he also had to expand his repertoire of spells and curses.

Over the next couple of days, Helen was also going to start teaching them elemental magic, though it would be a slower progress with Cedric as his element was earth, the one element Helen herself was yet to learn. Hermione's was air, so that wasn't a problem.

Two hours later, extremely tired and drained Hermione and Cedric followed Helen out of the range. They glared at their mutual girlfriend as she skipped ahead of them humming a tune without even a drop of sweat on her, while they had to support each other just to climb to the bedrooms on the first floor. Helen had them practicing nonstop for the past two hours and they were sure they couldn't even light a lumos, even if they combined their magic.

Helen decided that a nice soak in the pool would help them relax and ordered her lovers to change for a swim. Helen had assigned them rooms next to hers to keep their luggage and for changing, not that they would be sleeping there obviously. Ten minutes later Helen emerged from her room in a black caged bikini that emphasised her assets. She was with her lovers after all, and she wanted their attention.

Helen saw that Cedric's door was open and that he had already left. She was about to knock on Hermione's door when it opened revealing the brunette in a modest one piece swimsuit biting her lower lip.

Helen made an exaggerated sigh and approached the girl. "I love you, Hermione, so don't take this the wrong way, but what the fuck is that?" Helen exclaimed, waving her hand at the offending article.

Hermione's eyes widened at hearing Helen curse, before she dipped her head, her ears turning red as she mumbled "I wasn't sure what to wear."

Sighing again, Helen hugged the Gryffindor gently, "If that is what you really want to wear, it's fine, but I was hoping that we will have some fun together, some fooling around, and you dressing up like a nun wouldn't make it easy," she said, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively.

Hermione blushed again, understanding the implications of Helen's words and spoke meekly with her cheeks red, "I do have a few more options, could you help me find something?"

Smirking, Helen instead pulled Hermione to her own room, saying "I could definitely help you find something."

Cedric was relaxing in the warm waters of the pool, enjoying the beautiful snowy scenery from within the climate control wards. He had just started to wonder what had kept the girls, when the door to the porch opened. His eyes widened seeing Helen step out in what he could only describe as three tiny pieces of black clothes held in place by straps to barely cover her nipples and bits. But when Hermione stepped out, his eyes threatened to pop out of their sockets seeing what she was wearing. She also had three tiny pieces of clothes on her but that was where the similarity ended. At first he thought that the three red scraps of clothes were held in position with some kind of a sticking spell but when Hermione moved, he realised that they were held in place by nude colored strings that were so thin they were invisible until she was only a few feet away.

Helen smirked seeing his reaction and nugged her girlfriend "See? I told you." Hermione blushed, at getting Cedric's attention but had a satisfied smile as they approached the pool. Cedric and Hermione relaxed on the edge while Helen did laps, discussing random topics and getting to know each other better. They both realised that was Helen's intention and appreciated their girlfriend's efforts to allow them to know each other without her influence.

Half an hour later, Helen joined them and called for some refreshing drinks. She had given them space to know each other better and it was evident that they had realised it and used it. However, Helen wanted them to be intimate as well, so once the drinks were finished, she turned to Cedric and started making out with him. After a minute, she turned around and did the same with Hermione.

She pulled back after a minute, keeping one arm around the other girl and beckoned Cedric to join them with her other. Once he was there, she gently pushed them towards each other, her intentions obvious. Hermione looked at Cedric with slight apprehension but was willing. The brunette slowly raised her hands and rested them on Cedric's chest. Cedric on his part remained still, completely aware that he had to let Hermione approach him.

Hermione slowly closed the gap between them and raised her face towards the boy. Their lips finally met in a tentative kiss. Realising it was not bad, Hermione closed her eyes and deepened the kiss, sliding a hand behind Cedric's neck. Seeing that Hermione wasn't going to run away, Cedric too wrapped his arms around the brunette's waist and wholly reciprocated the kiss.

Since both had their eyes closed, they didn't see the joyous look on Helen's face, as she looked at her lovers accepting each other. After letting them kiss for a minute, she joined them as well, attaching her lips to Cedric's neck while her hands made their way south to grab both her lovers behind.

A few minutes later Helen dragged her lovers out of the pool and upstairs to her bedroom, though the journey which should have taken less than a minute took them over a quarter of an hour as there were multiple stops in between whenever someone's lips found somebody else's.

Once they reached Helen's room, she pushed Cedric onto the bed so that he was lying on the bed with his torso raised on his elbows, looking at the girls with hunger in his eyes. Throwing a wink at him, Helen turned and pulled Hermione to her, attacking her lips, while her hands roamed over brunette's body, a foot in front of the boy.

After making out with Hermione thoroughly, Helen reached behind her and unhooked Hermione's top, leaving it only supported by her hand. Hermione pulled back and saw Cedric gazing at her, waiting to see what she would do. She turned to Helen and the redhead was also waiting for her to make a decision. She realised that neither of them wanted to force her to do anything she didn't want to do. However, Hermione wanted to proceed, so taking a deep breath, she removed her hand and let the top fall on the ground, revealing her breasts to Cedric for the first time.

Cedric didn't ogle at her breasts immediately, instead he got up while maintaining eye contact with her and kissed her deeply showing his appreciation for her consent and acceptance. Meanwhile, Helen vanished her bikini and joined them, nibbling at Cedric's back, as her hands tugged his shorts. Once her desired object was free, she stroked it and rubbed its tip on Hermione's abdomen from navel to her bikini-covered core, drawing a gasp from both her lovers.

Helen walked around the kissing pair and once she was behind Hermione, completely divested her as well, while applying a charm to both Hermione's and her abdomen. Once they were all naked, the intensity and the hunger of their roaming hands multiplied. With single eye contact, Helen and Cedric decided to keep Hermione at the centre of the focus and proceeded to explore every inch of her skin with their fingers, lips, and tongue. Under the duel assault of her lovers, Hermione soon came when Cedric sucked at her breasts while Helen fondled her core.

Later after several rounds of fun, as Helen rested with her head on Cedric's shoulder while Hermione occupied the other, she thought that it was a good thing Hermione agreed for them to become a Ménage à trois, as instead of feeling tired she felt energised and that this was too much fun to be missing out on. She wanted to go for more, but her lovers had firmly told her no and had slapped away her hands when she had tried to rouse them. Pouting theatrically, Helen huffed and settled down, watching her partners go to sleep, before deciding to sleep herself as well.

As Helen slept that night, she had her first ever wet dream while dreaming of several warm bodies grinding against her as a couple of men entered her together.


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