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A/N: Reviews: (Don't worry, the actual chapter is underneath this long Author's Note)
Romaine24: "Why are you claiming this story as yours? If I wanted to post this story on I would have posted it in 2007. I find this a very horrible thing for someone to do to a writer that spent over 2 years of her life writing and posting this story. This story was originally posted on ForeverFandom and the Silver Snitch. Later on the Hex Files and now on A03 as Double Edged Sword by Romaine. It is complete and has 101 chapters. I will be filing a complaint to have this story removed."
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Later: "Sincere Apologies, I posted the complaint to the wrong fake story. Romaine24."
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To Romaine24, who thought that this story was copywritten from her story "Double Edged Sword" by Romaine24, I realize that you made a mistake by thinking that this story was yours. But I really hope that you didn't file the complaint to have this story removed like you said in your original comment. This obviously isn't your story. Yes, the titles to the stories may be similar but that is the only similarity to these stories. I hope that you investigated by reading the summary and saw that it wasn't your Draco/Harry story and that it was actually a Harry/Ginny story before filing a complaint. Because if this story is removed, then that's it. It will be deleted and all of my hard work will be out the window.
If this is the case, I implore you to be more careful in the future. Just because the titles are somewhat similar, doesn't mean that they are the same story.
I honestly almost cried when I saw your first comment in my email notifications because I thought that you actually reported it and that my entire story was now going to be deleted if didn't do any investigative work and saw that the stories aren't the same after all. If you did already report it before realizing your mistake, I hope that actually does an investigation.
Does anyone out there know how to combat a complaint if it comes to it?
But I do know that it was an honest mistake and I hope that it can be put in the past. Maybe you can even read my story and realize that Harry/Ginny is just as compelling a ship as Harry/Draco. ;)
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Onto other matters, I would like to profusely thank all of you for your support in my recovery. All of your sincere comments in telling me that my health comes before the story was heart-warming, to say the least. It took me a while for the fogginess to go away but I am 95% recovered. I just have to get some stitches removed on Wednesday and then I'll be golden! The guy that hit me was so apologetic that I actually felt bad for him. We've gotten together for coffee recently and I reassured him that there was absolutely nothing to forgive because it was an accident.
Thanks again for the support and please enjoy the chapter.
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Harry dried his face off with a towel before leaving the bathroom. He was walking the hall, all of the portraits looking at him curiously, as he headed back to his bedroom.
When a door suddenly opened just as he was passing it and he was forcibly dragged inside the room…
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Chapter Fifty-Six
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Harry stumbled a bit as he was dragged into the room, a curse just on the tip of his lips as he fought to keep his footing.
Once he managed to get his feet steady, he looked back to see the culprits…
Sirius had his back to him with his head poking out the door into the hall - looking to make sure that no one had seen Harry enter the room - before he closed it. While his dad stood by the door, looking at Harry with an unreadable expression.
Harry couldn't help but gulp slightly. He had already gotten his scolding from his mum, but it seemed that it was now his dad's turn… and it looked like he decided to involve Sirius, as well. He wondered if Remus was too tired from the upcoming full moon to be involved, as well.
Once Sirius had closed the door to his room, he, too, turned to look at Harry with the same expressionless features.
His dad crossed his arms and nodded his head towards Sirius' bed. "Why don't you take a seat, Harry. This is going to take a while."
Harry gave a shaky nod and scrambled to comply as he quickly made his way over to the bed, where he sat on the very edge. Just enough so he couldn't slip off but far enough off of the bed so that if he had to make a run for it, he could.
It was then that his dad and Sirius stepped forward and each took their own seats on either side of him. And Harry was startled to see them both smirking at him deviously. Harry fidgeted uncomfortably under their gazes. "You two aren't planning on pranking me, are you?"
Both James and Sirius threw their heads back and laughed madly at that. Sirius threw a jovial arm around Harry's shoulders while his dad shook his head no.
"You kidding?!" James replied excitedly, "We've been waiting for this moment since your mum and I found out that we were having a son!"
Sirius nodded eagerly as he tightened his hold around Harry's shoulders before his other hand came up and ruffled his crazy hair even more.
"What are you two talking about?" Harry asked, annoyed as he batted at Sirius' hand. He really wasn't in the mood at playing any guessing games. All he really wanted to do now was to go to bed so that he could sleep off at least a portion of his embarrassment.
James' jovial mood suddenly plummeted and his expression became entirely serious. Harry's eyes widened. Their mood-changes were giving him whiplash…
"We are about to disclose to you some very sacred information that isn't to be taken lightly," Sirius stated, causing Harry's attention to whip over to him. He was no longer smiling and a twinge of worry piqued at Harry's mind.
James nodded, completely serious, in agreement. "Yes, Harry. This is not something that is to be shared with just anyone..."
Harry was extremely concerned now. The way that they talked, this information could be the fate between life and death.
"Harry. James. Potter…" His dad said while emphasizing every syllable in his name. "You are about to embark... on the journey... of the sex talk with two sex experts such as your Godfather and myself."
Harry's jaw dropped.
He thought that they would start laughing, but the way that they looked at him showed that they took the matter very seriously. Immediately, Harry started to shake his head. "No... no. No. No. No-"
Sirius rolled his eyes. "You haven't even heard what we have to say yet."
Harry was still shaking his head in complete denial. He did not - repeat - DID NOT want to have this conversation. He has had enough embarrassment tonight to last him for a lifetime.
James rolled his eyes at his son's attitude toward the subject choice before he interjected, "When given the chance, Harry, do you even know how to give pleasure to a girl?"
Harry squeezed his eyes shut as he continued shaking his head in denial, trying to keep this conversation from settling in his mind. If he pretended that he wasn't hearing it, then maybe they would just give up. James sighed as he clarified. "If Ginny let you touch her intimately, would you even know what to do? Where to touch to make her go mad with desire?"
Harry froze and opened his eyes. His head stopped shaking as he bit his lip. In truth, he hadn't the faintest clue of what to do with Ginny when the time came for shagging. It wasn't as though Hogwarts had a sex education class…
He imagined if things had gone the way that he had originally wanted tonight, what would he have done to give Ginny pleasure?… and he realized with a jolt that he wouldn't have known what to do at all.
And who else could he really talk to for getting advice? Sure, Ron has had sex with Hermione, but there was absolutely no way Harry could go to Ron asking for shagging tips that Harry could use with Ron's own sister… Harry wrung his hands together before he begrudgingly sighed in defeat. "Fine."
His dad beamed in triumph while Sirius let out a whoop of victory.
James stood onto light feet as he took out his wand. He said a spell that Harry hadn't ever heard before and a floating diagram suddenly appeared in front of him.
To Harry's horror, it was a diagram of the female body.
His face reddened for the thousandth time that night as he looked away from the image, casting his eyes away from the faceless female form…
But Sirius was having none of it. He tucked his hand under Harry's chin and turned his head back to the diagram. "Pay attention now. Class is in session."
James nodded studiously at Sirius in thankful approval before he used his wand as a pointer for the image.
"Now, of course, you already know about the boobs," James' wand hovered over the chest area of the woman.
"What sort of straight bloke wouldn't?" Sirius injected with a nod of his head.
James straightened all prim and proper. "Right you are, Padfoot. Please take ten points."
His dad turned back to the image and tapped it with his wand, causing it to zoom in on the female's genitals.
Harry was sure that he was going to die right here and now. In fact, a large part of him wished for a hole to open up in the floorboards that he could fall through. But... he actually found that he couldn't divert his attention away, either, even though he desperately wanted to. He had never seen a woman's privates so close up before… The only instance where he had even seen a woman in her nude form before was when he had come across Dudley's dirty magazine stash two years ago when Harry had been cleaning his room…
But to say that Harry's interest was piqued would be a vast understatement… because Merlin, did a woman's genitals look complicated... But he also found himself to be intrigued. And aroused. And entirely confused.
With a bloke, pleasure seemed to be so simple. All he had to do was rub his cock to give himself pleasure. But with a girl…
"The part, I assume, you need our expertise in is a girl's cun- I mean vagina," His dad quickly corrected himself. He pointed his wand at a little nub at the very top. "This, right here, is called the clitoris - clit, for short - and it is the secret to every wizard's success in bed."
"Makes her scream, it does," Sirius added with a devious smirk towards Harry as he elbowed him suggestively.
"Take another five points, Padfoot," James stated with a wide grin before he turned back to the diagram. "Now, in order to stimulate the clit, you can use your fingers, mouth, tongue, dick, or you can even charm your wand to vibrate."
"And this is where you are thinking to yourself that you will never, ever, borrow your father's wand…" Sirius muttered over to Harry with a smirk. Disgust dawned on Harry's face as he realised what he meant by the comment, and the unwanted images that came with it were something that had never wanted to imagine.
Great. Now Sirius has gotten him picturing his mum and dad in bed and - Harry was sure he was going to be sick.
His dad must have heard the comment, however, because he scowled at Harry's Godfather and deducted thirty points from Sirius before continuing on as though there was no interruption.
"When you use your fingers, you just want to rub the clit in a circular fashion. But you can also get quite fancy with it and try different maneuvers just so you leave her guessing what you're going to do next. But just make sure not to rub too hard… the clit is one of the most sensitive areas for a woman."
Somehow, Harry's discomfort started to slowly vanish as he absorbed the information that was being given to him. And he actually found himself nodding along, not daring to interrupt lest they forget to tell him something that could be vital for giving Ginny orgasms.
A lurch came up from the pit of his stomach just from the thought of Ginny possibly letting him give her as much pleasure as she was bound to give him.
"Now using the mouth and tongue tend to go hand-in-hand," Sirius continued on from where James left off.
James smirked, "Very tongue and cheek of you, Padfoot."
Harry laughed as Sirius rolled his eyes at his dad. "Not one of your best puns, Prongs…"
James shrugged, not at all offended by the slight, "I'm a dad, Sirius. I'm supposed to have terrible puns. Got to keep Harry's cheeks red from embarrassment somehow."
Harry grabbed a pillow from the bed and chucked it at his dad's head, but much to his disappointment, his dad caught it with a laugh before it could make contact.
"So, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," Sirius said with a flourish as he gave a pointed look over at James, "You can use your mouth to suction around her clit by pulling it into your mouth, while your tongue circles around it while inside… Any questions, so far?"
Harry hesitated before he nodded. "Er… yeah. How is it that you know when a witch, uh, you know…"
"Orgasms?" His dad supplied helpfully, for once no teasing was detected in his tone of voice.
Harry nodded sheepishly.
His dad smiled serenely as he looked upward, his eyes distant as though he were remembering a fond memory. "One indicator is the noises she makes. Trust me, when a witch orgasms, she lets you know by being vocal about it. But another clue is in the way that she moves. Her body will tense and most-likely her back will arch, depending on which sex position you are using. But the biggest sign is that her vagina will clench and contract in rippling waves. You'll feel this if you have your fingers or cock inside of her."
Sirius sighed in memory. "Feels bloody amazing the way a witch clamps down on you…"
Harry eyed his Godfather for a moment and couldn't help but noticed how sad he looked. Before, with a jolt, he realised that it's probably been quite a while since Sirius has been able to shag a witch. Harry wondered how long it's actually been. Probably not since before Sirius has been arrested when Harry was only one.
Probably not since Marlene McKinnon died...
His dad must have realised the same thing because he was quick to jump onto the next topic. "Which brings us to fingering. Now, the key to fingering a witch is to find her g-spot."
Harry's brows furrowed at the new term as he turned his gaze away from Sirius to face his dad. "A what?"
James smirked. "Her g-spot. It's this sensitive area on the top wall of the vagina. It's what helps a witch feel good while you shag her."
"You may have trouble finding it at first, though," Sirius interjected as he allowed himself to rejoin the conversation.
Alarmed at this idea, Harry couldn't help but sit forward. "What do you mean I'll have trouble finding it? Don't I just, uh, I don't know, stick my fingers in and brush up against it?"
Both James and Sirius burst out into laughter, which caused Harry to flush.
His dad shook his head as he calmed down. "Oh, Harry, you have so much to learn. Aren't you glad that we decided to force you to have this conversation?"
Harry stayed silent as he wasn't sure how to answer that question. Luckily, his dad wasn't waiting for one.
"And to answer your question, that's not how you stimulate the g-spot while fingering her. You don't just merely brush it to make her feel good. You've got to curl your fingers upward into it and jab into it like your cock would thrust into it while shagging her. Like this,"
His dad held up his right hand and showed his middle and ring fingers doing a 'come-hither' gesture.
Harry stared at the technique and forced it to become burned into his memory. Merlin, he would have looked like an idiot if he and Ginny had gotten to this point tonight. Because from the sounds of it, Harry wouldn't have given her any pleasure, at all.
"She will most likely like it if you suck on her clit as you finger her, too." Sirius supplied.
James smiled. "Take twenty points, Padfoot. Now that we've covered the foreplay, it's time to cover actual shagging. And the first rule you have to swear to live by if you want success in bed, is that you have to give a witch an orgasm from her clit before you get to the shagging bit."
Sirius nodded in agreement, "Foreplay is key."
It seemed that both embarrassment and confusion were the primary emotions that Harry was most capable of tonight. "But why?"
"If you give her a clit orgasm first, it makes the g-spot more sensitive. If you don't give her an orgasm first, there is a ninety-five percent chance that she won't orgasm from penetration, alone."
Merlin. He was right in his assumption that giving a witch an orgasm was complicated.
Seeing the look of worry on Harry's face, his dad quickly tried to appease his fears. "Don't worry. It's easy to give her a clit orgasm. It's like I said before, it's the most sensitive part of a woman's body. You just have to be persistent and patient enough until she comes."
They continued to talk about different techniques that Harry could use while shagging Ginny. They even supplied advice for what he should be doing with his hands and mouth. But Harry honestly thought that he would have no trouble when it came to keeping his hands on Ginny's skin when it came down to it. He had trouble making himself behave now and they haven't even done anything sexual yet.
"Now," His dad said, his tone shifting to something that was more serious and stern. "We need to talk about contraception."
Harry gulped as guilt overcame him once again. "I'm sorry that I didn't think of it before…"
His dad sighed heavily as he ran a hand through his messy hair. "I know, Harry. I even understand why you didn't think of it. No one was there to talk to you about sex before, so how would you honestly know? But that still doesn't change the fact that in order to be ready to have sex, you need to be safe and responsible. And you need to talk with Ginny about sex before you both decide to do it together. Your mum was right about that."
Harry nodded seriously at what his dad was telling him. And he knew that he and Ginny had to have a serious talk the next time they managed to be alone again. Sure, it would probably be mortifying for them both but Harry knew that it was something that they had to suck up and just talk about.
James sighed again but this time he smiled slightly at Harry. "Now, with that part out of the way, let's talk about what sort of protection you can use."
Harry nodded and gave a small smile back at his father. He liked the way that his dad was handling this. He made Harry feel like he wasn't stupid for not knowing these things. In fact, it felt like he was being treated as an adult, for once.
"The first is a potion for her to drink right before shagging," Sirius interjected. "But there is the potential side-effect of abdominal pain that can last up the three weeks at a time."
Harry frowned, not much liking the idea of Ginny potentially being in pain for any extended amount of time.
James looked at Harry in understanding. "I know… I don't much like the idea, either. The pain is a pretty common side-effect. It was the first contraception made available to wizards and witches. The second potion that you could use would be something that you would drink right before sex. There is one potential side-effect, however…"
Harry quirked an eyebrow. "Don't tell me that there is a chance that my dick could fall off."
James and Sirius' heads fell back as they roared with laughter. Harry couldn't help but smirk slightly in satisfaction.
Sirius wiped away a few tears from his eyes as they both managed to calm down. "Hardly. But there is a chance that your dick can turn blue…"
Harry's eyes bugged out at this tidbit of information. "P-Permanently?"
James and Sirius looked at one another and chuckled.
"Nah," His dad said with a wave of his hand. "It only lasts about an hour if you just so happen to have a reaction to it. It's not a very common side-effect. But the potion is one hundred percent in preventing pregnancy, same as the other potion."
Harry let out a sigh. That didn't sound so terrible. And he liked the idea behind not having to worry about getting Ginny pregnant.
"There is one more contraceptive," Sirius said, slowly, "The Contraceptive Charm."
Harry cocked his head to the side and asked sarcastically, "And what's the side-effect on this one?"
James shook his head. "No physical side-effects to the body with this one…"
Harry's whole demeanour perked up. No chance of side-effects for the charm? If he learned the charm, he wouldn't even have to order any potion that he would have to remember to have on hand. He would just use the charm as needed. Why were the other two contraceptives even an option anymore?
"No side-effects..." Sirius continued. "Unless you count it only being ninety-three percent effective a side-effect," Sirius said with a pointed look towards James.
The colour drained out of Harry's face as he thought about it… Only ninety-three percent effective? Merlin! That was a seven percent chance Ginny could get pregnant! He found himself not liking that seven percent… he'd rather have a blue penis than have to worry about a child in the middle of a looming war. It would be just another worry that he wouldn't need on his plate.
Looking up, Harry knew that he made his decision. "I want the potion for me to take."
His dad smiled at him as he nodded. "I'll order some for you by owl to keep on standby if you ever find yourself needing it at Hogwarts. You may want to keep a few vials with you, just in case."
Harry nodded gratefully at his father, and a tension in his shoulders fell away that he hadn't even known that he had previously.
His dad and Sirius nodded back once before Sirius stretched and yawned. "That was a great talk and all, but I think that I'm ready to hit the hay."
His dad looked like he agreed with Sirius' sentiment and he reached an arm around Harry's shoulders to lead him towards that door. "I agree. Thanks for letting us use your room for this talk, Padfoot."
Sirius perked up right before he climbed into bed. "Are you kidding? I wouldn't have missed this talk for the world! I would've been bummed if I missed Harry's protests and flushed cheeks!"
Harry sent a glare at his Godfather over his shoulder which only caused Sirius to laugh.
James chuckled as he opened that door and led Harry out into the hall. "Night, Padfoot."
"Night," They heard from the room before James closed the door.
They walked down the hall together as James patted Harry on the back.
They were quiet for only a beat of a moment before Harry spoke up. "Dad?"
"Hmm?"
Harry swallowed. "Th-Thanks for forcing me to have that talk with you and Padfoot. I know that I protested at first, but I'm glad that we had it."
James grinned as he squeezed his shoulder. "You're a good kid, Harry. But sometimes, it's up to the parents to know what is best for their child. Always know that I do things with your best interest in mind."
Harry nodded seriously as they stopped right outside his bedroom door. James turned to face him before Harry suddenly stepped forward and wrapped his arms around his dad, surprising James.
"I know that I don't say it nearly enough," Harry mumbled into his father's shoulder, "But I love you, dad."
Harry pulled away to see James swallow heavily at a lump in his throat. "I love you too, Harry. Always have and always will."
They smiled at one another before James punched him weakly in the shoulder. "Night, kiddo."
"Night." Harry echoed as James finally turned and walked down the hall.
Harry watched his dad disappear into his own bedroom before he let out a shuddering sigh, releasing the emotion that he felt with it.
Then he turned towards his bedroom door and opened it… where he immediately froze.
She was sitting on his bed, looking down nervously at her hands as they wrung themselves together around the fabric of her pyjamas.
"Ginny?!"
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A/N: Make sure to leave me that review! And thanks again for all of your support! I love you guys! :)
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