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Warning: This work may be offensive to some readers. There's referenced health issues & dying along with referenced discussion of abortion for the sake of the mother's survival. Oh, and there's described snippets of a sex montage. Feel free to back out if need be.

Author's Note: No, I won't actually write out the full scene that got snipped into the montage.

Submitting Info:
Stacked with: Hogwarts (Term 14); MC4A (Year 4)
Individual Challenges: Culturally Inclined; Fix-It Felix; Gryffindor MC (x2); Ravenclaw MC (x2); Slytherin MC (x2); Magical MC (x6) (Y); Neurodivergent (x3); Rian-Russo Inversion (x4); Disabled (Y); The 3rd Rule; Lovely Triangle; Ship Sails; Gwen's HP Bribery (Y); Hold the Mayo; Zed Era; Old Shoes (Y); Feathers & Such; Short Jog (Y); Bucket Listing (Y); Two Cakes (Y); Eating Cake (Y)
House: Slytherin
Assignment No.: Term 14 – Assignment 09
Subject (Task No.): Egyptology (Task#4: Write about someone wealthy.)
Other Hogwarts Challenges: Fantastic Beasts [07](set outside at night); 365 Prompts [316](inheriting something); Scavenger Hunt [35](Curse Breaker)
Other MC4A Challenges: SpB [2D](River/Stream); TrB [4B](Color Coded Powers); Ship (Heroes; Heroic Shadow; Lunar Lion; Lunar Peridot; Stellar Legends)[Sp Mic 2](Reed); Hunt [Sp WD](Pagan)/[Sp WD](Asexual)/[Sp Set](Full Moon); Chim [Isopra](Royal Purple)
Representation(s): Desi Harry Potter/Blaise Zabini/Luna Lovegood/Neville Longbottom; Draco Malfoy/Astoria Greengrass; Beltane Ritual; Asexual Luna Lovegood
Primary & Secondary Bonus Challenges: Middle Name; Nightingale; Spinning Plates; Delicious Lie; Fire Song; Tomorrow's Shade; Second Verse (Ladylike; Not a Lamp; Found Family; Nontraditional; Zucchini Bread); Chorus (Odd Feathers; Wabi Sabi; Fizzy Lemonade; Machismo); Demo 1 (Clio's Conclusion; Most Human Bean; Esbat; Ariel's Temptation; Three's Company; Bad Beans; Red Night; Easy Zephyr); Demo 2 (Creature Feature; Infinity; Forked Path; Mermaid; Eternal Rhapsody); Demo 1 [x2](Professor's Torment; One Man's Cow)
Tertiary & Generic Bonus Challenges: T3 (Thimble; Terrarium); SN (Rail; Ameliorate); LiCK (Poppy; Amaranth; Narcissus; Tansy); CM (Brier; Unilateral; Notch)
Word Count: 1224 words

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To Break a Curse
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The full moon was shining brightly overhead, its cool light broken by the thick canopy of the trees which grew alongside the river which moved lazily at this particular part of its winding path around the Potter estate. In fact, river was so slow and deep here that it formed a natural pool that was perfect for swimming or bathing. A thick patch of reeds acted as a barrier and filter to keep more than just water from flowing into the pool. Some long ago Potter had arranged for boulders to line the area to form shelves which were convenient for entering (or exiting) the pool as well as keeping useful things within reach of anyone using the pool.

In bowls that had been carefully crafted from garnet, tiny fires burned merrily along the highest available shelf, illuminating the area even further as they also released sweet-smelling smoke from the fuel that the flames were consuming. Before each lit bowl, a chunk of dark soda bread sat as offering. Next to the bread was a small chalice of honey wine that glinted in the flickering fireflight.

The group of wixen that had gathered in the space had a specific reason for doing so. Left to their own devices, some of them had no reason to directly interact at all, not even if they happened to find themselves at the same event (which actually tended to happen frequently given that they were from the same social class). Yet the connections they had with each other were strong, both in the magical sense and the emotional one. It made their goal even remotely possible despite how impossible it had been for the wixen who had come and gone before them.

The blood curse on the Greengrass family had been a specter haunting the members for generations. Astoria and Daphne had both been lucky to survive to magical maturity. Their brother had not been so lucky. Daphne had a plan for gaining a heir for the House through her stolen wife, gaining a child to carry the name without any of the bloodline tainted by the curse. Astoria and Draco had been planning something similar when it came time to beget the next generation of the Malfoy family. Unfortunately, even the best plans sometimes failed.

Despite all their efforts to prevent it, Astoria had fallen pregnant. Despite Draco's pleading, Astoria was refused to even consider terminating the pregnancy. Despite the many wonders of modern magical healing, Astoria was dying as her innate magic struggled to sustain her health as well as support the child growing in her womb. Despite his already great debt to Harry, Draco had begged for his help in breaking the curse.

Harry had not known anything in particular that would have been helpful. He was too new to wielding the power he had gained upon becoming freed from the horcrux. He was too off-balance after his own lamiae blood made itself known and demanded satisfaction. He was too muggle to have more than the tiniest inkling of how much he didn't know about the magical world and magic itself.

But his partners knew more than him. Luna was the best there was at obscure & obscured magic. Blaise specialized in abjuration in all its forms, including healing and curse-breaking. But it had been Neville who had been the one to come up with the way to do it. His mother had been a witch in more than just the way that magical Britain used the word.

The ritual they were using came from Alice's personal grimoire.

And this night, they were performing it. It was perfect for it, too. All of the astrological timing had worked out, coinciding as if the entire universe was sliding into place. The full moon had risen into a cloudless May sky. Casting the circle and summoning the guardian spirits of each element had gone as smoothly as the river flowed.

Everything was ready for the power to be raised in the manner which best fit the sabbat and ritual being used. They had all discussed what was acceptable and what was not. All the necessary and desired accouterments had been brought to the river hours before the group had made the hike through the woods to this hidden place.

The choice of the river pool for the ceremony had not been questioned by Draco or Astoria, as both were already familiar with how Blaise's lorelai heritage would affect certain aspects of his magic as it drew him towards sources of fresh water. Likewise neither Malfoy questioned the color scheme of the things to be used by everyone but them. Royal purple and copper were Blaise's personal colors, after all. What colors would be more appropriate for claiming his mates either directly or by proxy?

So that beautiful Beltane night, while the full moon bled crimson as it slid through the world's shadow, six wixen moved in a dance as ancient as it was instinctive. They exchanged kisses, on the lips as well as more intimate places. They flowed through positions as easily the water flowed through the barrier of reeds that sheltered the pool from rest of the river.

Luna gave delicate kitten licks around Draco's cock as it pumped in and out of Astoria's pussy before focusing on flicking her clit while Neville and Harry sucked on Astoria's nipples and Blaise laid a path of kisses down Luna's spine.

Neville and Harry each held down one of Draco's arms while Astoria shared the pearlescent pink double-ended dildo with her husband whose cries of passion were muffled by Luna riding his face. Blaise had overseen it all while stroking his own erection until he had spilled across Draco's stomach, the spend barely noticeable against Draco's natural paleness.

As the red moon began to return to its normal paleness, the groups separated slightly. Draco sat on a shelf that was submerged in the water with Astoria riding his cock with slow circles of her hips that barely disturbed the water as he rolled her nipples between his fingers. They both watched Blaise and Luna fucking their partners less than five feet in front of them.

Blaise had Harry in his lap facing their other partners, the smaller man's legs spread wide and kept that way by Blaise's own. Neville was pressed into the space between their legs, his hard cock rubbing against Harry's, with Luna pressed along his back. With almost lazy motions, she fucked the royal purple dildo into his carefully stretched hole and enjoyed the delicious way it rubbed against her clit as the harness of copper rope kept it from slipping into her.

The entire group climaxed one last time as the moon fell too low to shine through the trees. The ritual energy crested as well. It tightened around them like a protective seal before breaking with an inaudible hiss that had a more audible sizzle when it consumed the offerings of bread and wine as it rushed away from them.

Exhausted from a night of vigorous physical and magical activity, Harry felt his eyes drooping shut.

With his eyes closed, no one could see the green glow that swirled in his irises as the curse that threatened to kill both mother and child broke before the empowered will of the Master of Death.

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An Ending
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