Professor Tonks looked at the women assembled in the classroom. On a late Friday evening at Hogwarts University of Witchcraft and Wizardry, many of her pupils had gathered together for a little fun extracurricular activity she had planned. Substituting her teaching robes for a pink Weird Sisters t-shirt, faded jeans, and black knee-high boots with a short heel, Tonks felt very excited for what was about to go down tonight. “Alright, settle down girls!”
The room quieted down at her call to attention. Tonks quickly scanned the room, nodding to several of her regular students such as Hermione, Ginny, and Luna. “Tonight’s activity is a treasure hunt!”
A wave of excited chatter broke out, but Tonks quickly shushed them back down. “Now, rules!” she said, waving her wand and words appeared on the blackboard. “There are five presents scattered around the castle. All presents are within the main castle, so no worrying about the Quidditch pitch or greenhouses. Bring back any one of these presents and you will receive a prize. However, if someone finds them all, it will be a much, much larger prize to match your efforts.”
Tonks could feel the excitement beginning to build again. “To make things more difficult, there are multiple hunters prowling the castle marked with gold armbands. All participants must maintain their pink armbands at all times to show that you’re fair game. The hunters will be targeting you, and they are free to bind and gag you however they please.”
She grinned at the last sentence, which was the true reason most of the girls were here tonight. Glancing at the clock on the wall, she nodded her head. “You have five minutes after leaving this room to get to a good position and then the hunters will be unleashed. Let the hunt begin!”
Noise erupted as chairs scraped on the floor and girls scrambled out the door. They were eager to start, and Tonks knew that eagerness would make them sloppy, though she had a feeling who would emerge victorious. Once the room was empty, she also left and locked the classroom door behind her. This was going to be fun.
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Twenty-year-old Cho Chang, golden armband in place, watched through the gap in the door as footsteps sounded in the corridor and a girl walked past, the pink armband designating her fair game in the hunt. Waiting a few seconds to see if anyone else was following her, Cho opened the door and aimed her wand at the retreating figure. Too late, the girl heard the classroom door open and whirled around. “Lethargus!”
In that moment, Cho noted it was Sue Li, before the well aimed Drugging Charm hit her fellow Ravenclaw squarely in the chest, sending her sinking to her knees with a soft moan. Sue struggled to bring her wand up, but within seconds, the charm won out, and she collapsed onto the ground unconscious, her hair spilling in a dark pool around her head.
Cho stepped out of the classroom and walked over to where Sue lay, her boot heels clicking loudly on the floorstones. She had prepared a walk-in broom closet in advance, and with a wave of her wand, Sue’s limp body was raised into the air and slowly moved towards the makeshift prison. Cho set her down so her back was against the back wall, the other girl immediately slumping over in her unconscious state, while Cho began pulling lengths of rope out of her bag.
Cho looked down at the unconscious girl with a small smile on her lips. Though she had only recently begun participating in Professor Tonks’ extracurricular activities, Cho had known Sue Li for years, even before they’d both been sorted into Ravenclaw House. The Chinese community in Wizarding England was not the largest, so from a young age, they’d been a part of each other’s lives. Only a year younger than Cho, Sue had always looked up to her fellow Ravenclaw, and that influence was visible in the stockings and knee high black leather boots that she wore as part of her school uniform, in emulation of the older woman who was similarly dressed in a Ravenclaw uniform, stockings, and stiletto heeled black leather knee boots. Immediately, Cho’s analytical mind noted the flat-heeled style as a popular pair from Gladrags in Hogsmeade, a more conservative design than her own stiletto-heeled boots, and one more in keeping with Sue’s general lack of self-confidence. Not that I have any grounds to criticize her there, Cho ruefully acknowledged, before setting such thoughts aside. She had a job to do.
Cho rolled the unconscious Sue over onto her stomach and pulled her hands behind her back. From the bag came multiple coils of rope that formed a noose that she slipped around Sue’s wrists. While she could’ve used magic to easily bind Sue, tying someone up the Muggle way was half the fun, and Cho always wanted to get more practice.
Carefully and methodically, Cho wrapped five turns of white rope around Sue’s slim wrists before wrapping a vertical cinch to tighten the ropes securely. The rope had been provided by Professor Tonks and was enchanted, ensuring none of the students would suffer from blood circulation issues while bound. Another coil went around Sue’s elbows, Cho smiling at the display of Asian flexibility as Sue’s elbows came together before she bound them together. Next was the chest harness that trapped Sue’s arms against her upper body, all the while Cho stayed alert for anyone else who might come by as her nimble fingers worked quickly.
Three more sets of ropes at her booted ankles, her knees, and around Sue’s thighs under her skirt finished off the bindings that would keep her helpless. Glancing around the broom closet, Cho decided to pull Sue’s legs back into a hogtie, but gently pushed her over to one of the shelves and wrapped the hogtie rope around it to ensure that she wasn’t going anywhere.
The last item to complete Sue’s bondage was the gag. A black rubber ball gag, also enchanted to never block breathing and allow safewords, was removed from the bag. With a tap of her wand, the rubber ball changed to the blue shade of Ravenclaw. Cho gave a satisfied tut before strapping it into Sue’s unresisting mouth. She buckled it just in time for Sue’s eyelids to flutter open. “Chmmmmph?”
She recovered quickly, eyes darting about as she took in her location, her bindings, and her captor standing over her. Cho watched as she struggled for a few seconds before Sue seemed to deflate and her eyes settled on Cho’s boots, a whimper emerging from behind the ball gag. “Don’t go anywhere.” Cho gently patted her friend on the head before turning and leaving the broom closet, closing the door behind her to cut off the sound of Sue’s muffled whimpers.
She had just closed the door when new footsteps sounded down the corridor. Cho hurriedly darted across the hallway into the side corridor and peered around the corner at the newcomer. It was Tracey Davis, currently checking the classroom that Cho had originally hid herself in. A redhead not unlike the Weasleys, Tracey was a Slytherin, and as a half-blood, a very unusual one. Cho wasn’t sure how she was sorted into there, but there had been no shortage of housemates eager to make her life hell just for her existence. She carried herself with a kind of grace that only dancers could, completely in control of a lithe body that the Hogwarts University uniform fit quite well. The Slytherin girl’s outfit was completed with a set of black Doc Martens, probably used to kick any bigoted housemates who came after her, and Cho quickly pulled back around the corner as Tracey finished her check and came back into the hall.
Remembering a rumour that she had heard about Tracey having a crush on Sue, and the ever-shy Sue likewise pining for the Slytherin girl, an idea flashed into Cho’s mind, and she pointed her wand at the broom closet. The door slowly opened up a crack, and the moans of the helpless prisoner stashed within grew louder, causing Tracey to jump at the sound and turn towards the source.
Curiosity killed the cat. Cho thought as she watched Tracey creep over to the broom closet and push the door open slowly. With her back to her, Cho couldn’t see Tracey’s expression upon finding a bound and ballgagged Sue within, but she suspected it was one of shock, perhaps even desire. Not that it mattered once Cho’s Drugging Charm hit her square in the back, and Tracey sank to her knees before collapsing beside Sue. “Tmmmmmsmmmm!” Sue cried around the gag as her hope of rescue vanished in an instant.
“Lumos.” Cho muttered, her wand erupting with light as she entered the broom closet and closed the door behind her.
It was getting rather crowded with all three of them inside, but it would be cozy enough for two once she was finished. Setting her wand on a shelf to light up the closet, Cho got to work. Sue could only watch as the Slytherin was bound similarly with ropes at the wrists, elbows, ankles, knees, and thighs. Cho shook her head as she bound Tracey’s Docs, much less elegant than the knee high leather boots, but not surprising given the girl’s tomboy tendencies. A chest harness was added to frame Tracey’s breasts before the hogtie rope was added. As she retrieved a second ball gag from her bag, and noting how she was running a bit low on rope, Cho admired the contrast of the white ropes against the black and grey uniforms of her fellow students. A tap transmuted the ball gag to Slytherin green, and Cho brushed aside Tracey’s short red hair to buckle it tight.
Looking down at the two witches hogtied on the ground, Cho had a mischievous thought and pulled one more rope out of her bag. Kneeling down beside Sue, who looked up with questioning eyes, Cho wrapped one end of the rope around Sue’s slender waist. Sue gasped in panic as the rope tightened so that it was snug but not constricting, but Cho shushed her before moving Tracey closer to Sue and wrapping the other end around Tracey’s own waist. Now the two girls were connected with about six inches of rope between them, forcing them face to face, gagged lips close to touching. Cho retrieved her wand and pointed it at Tracey. “Renervate.”
Tracey woke up quickly, and let out a surprised cry at finding herself bound and gagged in a tight hogtie, then another shocked cry when she realized she was face to face with Sue. “Smmm?”
“I’ll let you two enjoy yourselves.” Cho gleefully dismissed herself as she made her way out of the closet. A succession of soft gagged murmurs sounded behind her, and she couldn’t help but smile at the notion of the two young women finally managing to break the ice. Merlin knew, they all needed some happiness in their lives…
Her musings came to an abrupt halt as, to her surprise, standing in the hall outside the broom closet was Professor Tonks. “Professor?” Cho gasped, caught off guard. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m just checking up on some of my favourites, I see you’ve been rather successful tonight as a hunter.”
Cho nodded excitedly. “Very successful, Professor. Two caught and my present is still in its spot.”
Tonks’ bright smile made Cho feel warm inside. “Well done, Cho. I think you’ve earned a reward for your work, especially now that the hunt is just about finished and we’ll be rounding up the students shortly.”
Cho’s eyebrows knit in confusion. She hadn’t remembered the Professor talking about a reward for the hunters. “Reward, Professor?”
“Oh yes. Lethargus!”