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| Entry tags: | *fic, 2009-09, author: leela_cat, character: charlie, character: harry, character: hermione, character: lucius, character: luna, character: millicent, character: sirius, character: teddy, content: oral sex, content: outdoor sex, theme: alternate pairing, theme: ritual sex |
FIC: A Balancing Act ~ NC-17
Title: A Balancing Act
Author: Leela (
leela_cat)
Characters: Lucius/Hermione, Charlie/Teddy, Luna/Millicent, Sirius/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: * PWP with a dash of plot for flavouring, AU, not an orgy*
Themes/kinks chosen: Ritual Sex, Alternate Pairing
Word Count: ~5,900
Summary: Opposites were required to restore the balance and repair the wards: Pureblood and Muggleborn, creature and creature-keeper, Dark and Light, life and death..
Betas:
the_minx_17 and
eeyore9990
Author's Notes: Apparently, when it comes to ritual sex, I'm a bit of an over-achiever.
After five years of investigation and experimentation, and more discarded hypotheses than anyone could count, only one answer remained: the complex wards that protected and separated Britain's Wizarding world from its Muggle counterpart were failing.
Sightings of dragons, kneazles, and lethifolds filled the less-respectable Muggle newspapers. A Muggle had managed to take a picture of a hag, despite her Disillusionment spell. Rumours of a prison in the middle of the North Sea that held unidentified political prisoners abounded among Muggle conspiracy theorists. And, even more worrying to both the Muggle Prime Minister and Minister Shacklebolt, Hogwarts had suddenly appeared on some list of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest.
The Unspeakables had proven, to their own satisfaction at least, that the cause of this failure originated in the Battle of Hogwarts and the events that preceded it. More specifically, by the reverberations from the destruction of Voldemort's Horcruxes, the detonations caused by the discharge of some of Hogwarts' ancient magic, and the involvement of the Elder Wand in a duel between two powerful wizards with brother-wands.
The answer, they insisted -- in a WandPoint presentation complete with charts, graphs, and more bulleted lists than anyone at the Ministry had ever seen in one place -- was to repeat the ritual originally used to create the wards with some modifications to handle the after-effects of the Battle of Hogwarts.
In addition to the public raising of the wards at Stonehenge, four private rituals were required. Each one had to take place at a primary magical site in a different British country, and for each of these rituals, opposites were required to restore the balance: Pureblood and Muggleborn, creature and creature-keeper, Dark and Light, life and death.