Author's Note: So it's been commented on that Harry's kind of an a**hole in this. This is sort of true, but not entirely the intention. It's more that he doesn't think he has feelings for Hermione the way that she does him, but he is guy who enjoys sex and "Control." See, get it? Title is "control" All the submissives out there will get that even though it's not the relationship Hermione deserves, she'd still enjoy being controlled if it was just about sex. :P I hope you know dear readers that I love you all for being so interested in this story and would only tease my readers out of love :D
Slash probably coming in the next chapter or two, fyi. I hope you guys enjoy some girl/girl relations.
Ok finally:
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Chapt 3:
Hermione woke up feeling rather tired. Hermione had strangely enjoyed the way Harry treated her last night, but she still wondered what had motivated him to be so cruel to her. The other strange thing she figured out was that at some point, her arousal had nothing to do with his magic anymore. She wondered if her body took over after she reached a certain point, or if Harry had actually turned off the magic after leaving her and she was still that aroused naturally.
She yawned and proceeded to get ready and head to breakfast.
"Why so tired Hermione?"
"Couldn't sleep" she had to catch her frustration. Ron didn't know what had happened. She knew she couldn't take out her recent frustrations on him.
"Oh. I'm sorry" he had a fleeting look of smugness before turning back to his food. Hermione thought to herself, 'surely he doesn't know?'
She shook her head a chanced a glance at Harry who simply winked at her and went back to his food. She felt a strange chill of natural excitement run through her body. She found it odd, but she thought she could tell now the difference between natural reaction and the magic Harry had over her.
She had a little trouble focusing in class for the day, but managed to scrape by before stowing away in the library until dinner. She was proud of herself for obtaining McGonagall's written permission to visit the restricted section, explaining she had a book she wanted to look at for defense against the dark arts. She knew she had McGonagall's trust, at least far stronger than she would have professor Lupin's.
She quickly searched the library and found a few books she had been looking for. She stowed them away in her backpack and ran back to her bedroom before dinner to stow the books away.
After dinner she made up some reason to excuse herself and retreated to her room.
She sprawled out on her bed and picked up the first book examining it a few turns in her hand before opening to the table of contents. She found the title wrote in plain text there which simply read "Sex, in the Muggle world and ours." When she skimmed the contents she found them to look rather disappointing; nothing about spells to use.
She discarded the book off to the side and picked up the next one which had the title wrote plainly on the cover. "How to arouse your companion." Then she read the subtitle, "8 easy steps to speed up foreplay" She groaned in frustration and realized this book probably wasn't actually going to have any the spell in it, but she had to look just in case.
She failed to noticed Ginny sneak up by the bed and pick the first discarded book off the bed. Ginny made it to the table of contents before Hermione realized she heard a book open beside her. Before she even looked up, her eyes darted to where the book had been and her heart sank. She remorsefully looked up at Ginny, whose face seemed to be between amused and shock. "It's not what you think Ginny"
Ginny regained herself. "So you want to know about sex. It's only natural."
"No that's not it."
Ginny face turned to one of confusion as she sat down on Hermione's bad across from her. Hermione ust watched as Ginny sat down the first book and picked up the open one she had on her lap and read the title. Then she just arched an eyebrow at Hermione as if to say 'Do you expect me to believe that?'
"No seriously Ginny." She hadn't wanted to tell anyone, but she didn't want Ginny to think of her as so innocent either. They were all finishing their final year of school after all, it wasn't like they were twelve. The trio and Ginny now in the same school year finishing up their formal education after the war ended. She took a deep breath and drew on her courage. "I'm trying to figure out what spell Harry cast on me…" She looked down at the bed, afraid to see Ginny's reaction so she missed Ginny's body soften in sympathy.
"I see." Was the only thing Ginny could say at first. Hermione nearly hung her head in shame, now feeling more embarrassed than she had when Ginny thought she was reading up on sex for her own knowledge.
"I…" Hermione finally looked back up to find Ginny's look of sympathy, but her cheeks betrayed her embarrassment.
"It's ok Hermione. I don't know exactly the details, but I know from when he and I dated that Harry can be a bit of a control freak when it comes to his sexual relationships.
Hermione couldn't help her shock at Ginny's admittance. Her jaw slightly dropped and just stayed that way while she stared at Ginny.
"What. Oh come on, you knew he and I slept together at the end of summer didn't you?"
Hermione bit back her surprise that time a little more effectively, but she shook her head sideways to answer Ginny's question.
"Oh, sorry. I thought he would have told you. It actually wasn't really working for me, and after that, I just sort of knew that we were never going to be happy together. I just didn't really feel anything after we had sex. It was as if it was some exercise I had to do and when I was done all I wanted to do was go shower and get on with the rest of my day."
Hermione just stared at Ginny.
"But enough about me. Tell me what's going on." She gave Hermione a glare that told her she should comply and that she better not lie about it.
Hermione sighed. "Well, you remember me talking about Harry casting some spell and him and Ron snickering after about it?"
Ginny had a puzzled look but nodded.
"Well I think Harry's back to his control games"
Ginny still looked at her puzzled. "You have to elaborate more than that"
"I told him her had my permission to cast any spell on me he wanted as long as her agreed to go out with me. I know I should have asked you"
Ginny cu her off. "You know I told you it was completely over when school started. I have no problem with it"
Hermione nodded and went on. "So it seems he's cast some sort of…" Hermione couldn't quite bring the words out of her mouth so Ginny took her hand and gave her a light squeeze encouraging her to continue.
"Some sort of… sexual spell… that… seems to… allow him…. To make me.." she took a deep breath "aroused"
"Oh!" Ginny couldn't help herself but she regained herself when she felt Hermione try to pull her own hand back to cover her face in shame. Ginny didn't release her hand and instead pulled it back down to her it was and squeezed it again.
"It's Ok Hermione. You don't have to be embarrassed about this stuff with me, ok?"
Hermione reluctantly nodded.
"Now stay here and wait for me for a minute ok?"
Hermione just stared at her, a bit confused.
"Just wait ok?"
She nodded. Eventually her attention went back to the book and read the first step in foreplay was physical contact. She stared back at her hand that Ginny had held, then shook her head.
Just then Ginny entered the room again and was carrying another book that Hermione had never seen before.
"I believe you may find what you are looking for in here"
"Where'd you get it?"
"I just went and found it wrapped in Harry's invisibility cloak in his room. The boys are all still at dinner and no one questions e about going to the boy's dorm, they all think I'm just going to make some guy lucky.
Hermione dropped her jaw briefly again before regaining herself when Ginny shrugged off her own comment.
Hermione stared down at the book Ginyn had handed her and found it to be a rather odd mix of ancient and modern in design. She read the title and just looked back at Ginny.
"Yeah… as soon as I saw the title I knew it had to be where they found the spell"
Hermione read skimmed the table of contents before flipping to the right section and skimming until she found the spell. She turned the book so Ginny could read at the same time rather than having to read out loud.
Hermione's courage sank more a she read through the spell. There were a lot of capabilities to it that Harry hadn't even used on her, which she hoped meant he wouldn't. The one that scared her the most was that he could make her extremely aroused but unable to actually get off by her own touch alone, that it had to be by the touch of another. She gulped when she realized Ginny had caught up to where she was at and was now looking at her with her finger pointing to it.
Hermione looked back at Ginny, a look a nervousness evident on her face. "I can enjoy being controlled as bit as much as anyone, but this spell can take things too far…"
"Yeah… I'd say."
"I can't give him the satisfaction of being at his beckoning call. I have to find a way to reverse the spell"
Ginny shook her head. She flipped the book back to the first chapter and shoved it at Hermione. Apparently Ginny had still skimmed through the book before retrieving it from the trunk.
The chapter stated that these spells could only be reversed by the original caster or the secret keeper who was informed of the spell before it was cast. If the caster died, the spell was as good as void because only the spell caster could actually use any of the spells abilities.
Hermione looked at Ginny. "What am I going to do?"
"Well… the only thing I can think of is to make him so frustrated with you that he gives up and reverses the spell on his own"
"How could I do that. I mean Ginny…" she swallowed the embarrassment this time, growing more comfortable talking about sex with her friend. "The spell can make me instantly dripping wet if Harry so desires, it's not even just aroused."
Ginny shifted slightly at Hermione's admission. "Ok, now I get just how exciting this is for Harry. I think I'm a bit more of a dominant than a submissive person when it comes to sex. Probably why we didn't' work out."
Hermione shot Ginny a look of 'is that important to my problem, why the hell are you telling me this, and please-focus on helping me.' "Come on Ginny, how are we going to help me?"
Ginny had a bit of a smile form on her lips. "Well, I have an idea… but I don't know how you'll feel about it"
The slightly panicked but yet in awe look the Hermione gave Ginny was priceless as Ginny explained her idea to her.
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Author's Note: Ah, so now we know. Well… sort of ;) you'll just have to wait and see what Ginny has up her sleeve.
Thank for taking interest in this story. I hope some of you will make it through with me the whole way. :) Please let me know what you think and if you are enjoying the fic so far.