All Seems Darkest Before The Dawn Cometh
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 14
Sasporilla Bucket stood on a dark city street corner. The cold night air chilled her to her very bone. It seemed to cold for the time of year. She didn't dress for the cold. She wasn't sure anyone could dress for this kind of cold.
A street light flickered. Something moved in the shadows. Frost formed on the windows before her eyes. Sasporilla searched for her wand. It was in the pocket of her robes, but she wasn't wearing her robes. A dementor flew out of the shadows and she turned to run. Her legs felt heavy like she weighed a thousand pounds. She was moving so slow. Sassy was terrified.
An icey claw reached out and grabbed her shoulder. The dementor had her. It spun her around. Sasporilla fell hard on her behind. She sat face to face with a dementor. It stared into Sasporillas terrified face. It breathed in her happiness and increased her terror. Sasporilla could feel her heart beat so hard in her chest until she thought it would explode. She screamed as the dementor lunged in to give her the gift of its final kiss.
Sasporilla sat straight up in bed screaming waking her room mates and the girls in the surrounding rooms.
"What's the matter!" Karry yelled running to he terrified friends side.
Sasporilla sat there disoriented breathing heavily. .
"Sassy? Karry looked into her eyes. "Sassy!"
Sasporilla looked at Karry, hugged her tightly and started to cry.
The girls of Hufflepuff looked very tired at breakfast. Sasporilla sat quietly replaying the dementors kiss over and over in her mind. The terror she felt must be how her father felt all those years ago. She started to wonder about the spell he used to reverse the dementors kiss all those years ago.
Sassy knew Uncle Nick wouldn't tell her the spell for fear she'd try it and suffer the same fate as her father. Besides how would she get a letter out asking. It would be edited out for sure. That's when Sasporilla Bucket knew what she would have to do.
Classes seemed to take forever. Time moved at half speed all day. Sasporilla could only concentrate on getting back to the dorm. She didn't care about turning a cup into a clock. She had no interest in how Flamel used the Philosophers stone to turn lead to gold. She really didn't want anything to do with Carrows Dark Arts class. She spent most of it in the washroom feigning Ladies problems.
After dinner Sassy ran back to the dorm. In the night stand drawer sat the box her father had given her. She pulled it out and held it in her hands. Sasporilla sat for a moment debating. She only had two wishes left. Did she really want to use one for this? Yes.
"I wish I knew what spell my father used to reverse the dementors case."
With a slight shudder and a knock, Sasporilla knew the answer now lay in the box. Sassy took a deep breath and opened the lid. Inside sat a small slip of paper which was old and stained from years of being kept in a pocket that saw many spills on it. The paper had two words on it.
"Retrum Tollis"
"What you got there?" Karry asked plucking the paper from her fingers.
"Hey!" Sasporilla protested. "It's private! Give it back."
"Ooooo." Karry taunted. "A love note?"
Sasporilla tried to pick the paper from Karrys hand but her friend wad quick and playfully motivated. Karry held off her friend as she read the slip of paper.
"Retrum Tollis?" Karry read handing it back to Sasporilla. "Wow. Sucky love note."
"It's not a love note." Sasporilla laughed.
"Your telling me." Karry laughed.
"Besides," Sasporilla mused. "Who would be sending me a love note?"
"You're kidding right?" Karry said. "Zac's quite fond of you and the way my brother looks at you?"
"He does?" Sasporilla blushed.
"And you don't think I don't see you looking at him?" Karry said.
"No, I." Sasporilla stammered unsure how to make a convincing denial.
"Oh my patronus gains strength from the day I gave him my card." Karry mocked. "Pa-lease!"
"Ok!" Sassy laughed. "I didn't want to admit it was from when he kissed me, ok?"
"First kiss is a powerful moment." Karry said. "Fills your soul with happiness and light!"
Kiss. Dark. Kiss. Light Retrum Tollis.
"It had no light." Sasporilla said shocked. "The kiss has no light!"
"Wow." Karry said. "Is my brother that bad a kisser?"
"No!" Sassy said. "Retrum Tollis is the spell my father used to reverse the dementors kiss. But it's a kiss with no light."
"So the spell was not complete?" Karry mused.
"No! It needed light to battle the darkness. Warmth to trap the cold." Sassy smiled excitedly.
"It needed an aspect of the patronus charm." Karry smiled wide eyed.
"We need to research this." Sasporilla said.
"Quietly." Susan Bones said dragging her tired carcass into the room. "Whatever you two are doing, please for the love of God, do it quietly!"
Saturday mornings after breakfast saw Sasporilla and Karry head to the library for several weeks. They combed the stacks of books looking for ways to create spells, craft and merge spell effects into one cohesive effect. This proved to be a very daunting task for a third and a fourth year.
"I think we're beaten." Sasporilla said closing the umpteenth book she had looked at today.
"No we can figure this out." Karry said having the time of her life. She loved books and researching. Sasporilla often though maybe Karry would go into dealing with books when she got older. Maybe own a book shop like Flourish and Blots or become a Librarian.
"What are you trying so desperately to figure out?" The librarian Irma Pince asked.
"Oh nothing important." Sass lied covering her notes.
"You two have been in this library every Saturday, all day, for two months!" Ms.Pince smiled. "That's a lot of research for nothing?"
The girls looked at her with silent stares.
"Look." Ms.Pince said. "If I suspect your working on something disruptive or dangerous I have to report you. Those are the rules. If you need help to learn about magic, then that's why I'm here. Trust me in your project or don't. The results will be of your own making either way."
"We want to know how spells work." Sasporilla said reluctantly.
"And we want to know how to craft new ones." Karry said.
"Excellent!" Ms.Pince smiled waving her wand and sending away the mountain of useless volumes of material the girls had pulled. Three new books pullef themselves from the shelves and landed on the table in front of them. "These should answer all your basic questions. One is seventh year text book, Basic Magical Spell Theory by M.J.Grossjeans. Start there. The next is a university thesis on Harmonic Resonence in spells by Saddie Potlentle Ph.d and the last is Making it up as I go, the auto biography of Carmella Timplton, a witch from the 1880's that created a lot of the modern spells we still use today."
The girls beamed with excitement. "Thank you Ms.Pince!" The girls said in unison.
"You're very welcome dears." Ms.Pince smiled. "All of these can be borrowed so you can check them out and peruse them at your leisure. Any further questions on the subject I have a few more advanced books in my personal collection you can have a look at."
The books were fascinating though some bits were a bit hard to understand. The basics of Magical theory stated spells were more than just a series of words and motions. They were also feelings and emotions. They were less in the command and more in the subtleties.
The thesis talked about how the mind, the thoughts, had energy. Energy that became sound. Sound that resonated with the body and the wand and with the essence of magic itself. Most interesting was the biography of Carmella Timplton. She talked about how she created new spells. She would think of what she wanted the spell to do then instinctively let her mouth form the words. When the process worked tje results spoke for themselves. When they failed, more often than not the results were catastrophic.
Wand motions worked in a very similar way. The thought of what she wanted to cast flowed like water and if you followed the flow it formed a shape. That flow and that shape was the wand motion needed to cast the spell. It all sounded so simple.
Karry found a list of sounds and how they work together. She broke down Riddonkulous' original spell.
"Retrum Tollis" Kerry said. "Ret-rum, to reverse, Tol-lis, horrible effect."
"So it did what it was suppose to." Sasporilla said. "It reversed the kiss. It took the soul of the dementor and spit it out."
"But not all of it." Karry said. "Remember what you told me from your dads letter. A part of the dementor stayed behind."
"Like a seed." Sasporilla said. "That grew inside until he became a dementor."
Karry looked at the differences in the subtlety of sounds. After ten or so minutes Karry pushed her note book over. The words 'Retrumi Petrollus' scrawled and circled amongst scribbles and musings.
"The best I can work out," Karry said, "Retrumi Petrollus should work but I think you'll need to focus on your happiest thought. Like when you cast your patronus."
"How can we test it?" Sasporilla asked.
"Test it?" Karry asked. "You don't really plan to use it?"
"If I have to yes." Sasporilla said.
"I thought this was an intellectual exercise." Karry said. "You can't try it!"
"I need to know we've fixed my fathers spell." Sasporilla said. "I need to know it really works. Think of how many lives it could save!"
"And if we're wrong think of the one life we'll lose." Karry pleaded. "YOURS!"
Sasporilla saw the look of worry in her best friends eyes. They had both lost so much in their lives recently. Karry clearly wasn't prepared to lose anyone else.
"Ok." Sasporilla said taking the page from the note book. "I won't use it, unless I have no other choice.
Sasporilla Bucket stood on a dark city street corner. The cold night air chilled her to her very bone. It seemed to cold for the time of year. She didn't dress for the cold. She wasn't sure anyone could dress for this kind of cold.
A street light flickered. Something moved in the shadows. Frost formed on the windows before her eyes. Sasporilla searched for her wand. It was in the pocket of her robes, but she wasn't wearing her robes. A dementor flew out of the shadows and she turned to run. Her legs felt heavy like she weighed a thousand pounds. She was moving so slow. Sassy was terrified.
An icey claw reached out and grabbed her shoulder. The dementor had her. It spun her around. Sasporilla fell hard on her behind. She sat face to face with a dementor. It stared into Sasporillas terrified face. It breathed in her happiness and increased her terror. Sasporilla could feel her heart beat so hard in her chest until she thought it would explode. She screamed as the dementor lunged in to give her the gift of its final kiss.
Sasporilla sat straight up in bed screaming waking her room mates and the girls in the surrounding rooms.
"What's the matter!" Karry yelled running to he terrified friends side.
Sasporilla sat there disoriented breathing heavily. .
"Sassy? Karry looked into her eyes. "Sassy!"
Sasporilla looked at Karry, hugged her tightly and started to cry.
The girls of Hufflepuff looked very tired at breakfast. Sasporilla sat quietly replaying the dementors kiss over and over in her mind. The terror she felt must be how her father felt all those years ago. She started to wonder about the spell he used to reverse the dementors kiss all those years ago.
Sassy knew Uncle Nick wouldn't tell her the spell for fear she'd try it and suffer the same fate as her father. Besides how would she get a letter out asking. It would be edited out for sure. That's when Sasporilla Bucket knew what she would have to do.
Classes seemed to take forever. Time moved at half speed all day. Sasporilla could only concentrate on getting back to the dorm. She didn't care about turning a cup into a clock. She had no interest in how Flamel used the Philosophers stone to turn lead to gold. She really didn't want anything to do with Carrows Dark Arts class. She spent most of it in the washroom feigning Ladies problems.
After dinner Sassy ran back to the dorm. In the night stand drawer sat the box her father had given her. She pulled it out and held it in her hands. Sasporilla sat for a moment debating. She only had two wishes left. Did she really want to use one for this? Yes.
"I wish I knew what spell my father used to reverse the dementors case."
With a slight shudder and a knock, Sasporilla knew the answer now lay in the box. Sassy took a deep breath and opened the lid. Inside sat a small slip of paper which was old and stained from years of being kept in a pocket that saw many spills on it. The paper had two words on it.
"Retrum Tollis"
"What you got there?" Karry asked plucking the paper from her fingers.
"Hey!" Sasporilla protested. "It's private! Give it back."
"Ooooo." Karry taunted. "A love note?"
Sasporilla tried to pick the paper from Karrys hand but her friend wad quick and playfully motivated. Karry held off her friend as she read the slip of paper.
"Retrum Tollis?" Karry read handing it back to Sasporilla. "Wow. Sucky love note."
"It's not a love note." Sasporilla laughed.
"Your telling me." Karry laughed.
"Besides," Sasporilla mused. "Who would be sending me a love note?"
"You're kidding right?" Karry said. "Zac's quite fond of you and the way my brother looks at you?"
"He does?" Sasporilla blushed.
"And you don't think I don't see you looking at him?" Karry said.
"No, I." Sasporilla stammered unsure how to make a convincing denial.
"Oh my patronus gains strength from the day I gave him my card." Karry mocked. "Pa-lease!"
"Ok!" Sassy laughed. "I didn't want to admit it was from when he kissed me, ok?"
"First kiss is a powerful moment." Karry said. "Fills your soul with happiness and light!"
Kiss. Dark. Kiss. Light Retrum Tollis.
"It had no light." Sasporilla said shocked. "The kiss has no light!"
"Wow." Karry said. "Is my brother that bad a kisser?"
"No!" Sassy said. "Retrum Tollis is the spell my father used to reverse the dementors kiss. But it's a kiss with no light."
"So the spell was not complete?" Karry mused.
"No! It needed light to battle the darkness. Warmth to trap the cold." Sassy smiled excitedly.
"It needed an aspect of the patronus charm." Karry smiled wide eyed.
"We need to research this." Sasporilla said.
"Quietly." Susan Bones said dragging her tired carcass into the room. "Whatever you two are doing, please for the love of God, do it quietly!"
Saturday mornings after breakfast saw Sasporilla and Karry head to the library for several weeks. They combed the stacks of books looking for ways to create spells, craft and merge spell effects into one cohesive effect. This proved to be a very daunting task for a third and a fourth year.
"I think we're beaten." Sasporilla said closing the umpteenth book she had looked at today.
"No we can figure this out." Karry said having the time of her life. She loved books and researching. Sasporilla often though maybe Karry would go into dealing with books when she got older. Maybe own a book shop like Flourish and Blots or become a Librarian.
"What are you trying so desperately to figure out?" The librarian Irma Pince asked.
"Oh nothing important." Sass lied covering her notes.
"You two have been in this library every Saturday, all day, for two months!" Ms.Pince smiled. "That's a lot of research for nothing?"
The girls looked at her with silent stares.
"Look." Ms.Pince said. "If I suspect your working on something disruptive or dangerous I have to report you. Those are the rules. If you need help to learn about magic, then that's why I'm here. Trust me in your project or don't. The results will be of your own making either way."
"We want to know how spells work." Sasporilla said reluctantly.
"And we want to know how to craft new ones." Karry said.
"Excellent!" Ms.Pince smiled waving her wand and sending away the mountain of useless volumes of material the girls had pulled. Three new books pullef themselves from the shelves and landed on the table in front of them. "These should answer all your basic questions. One is seventh year text book, Basic Magical Spell Theory by M.J.Grossjeans. Start there. The next is a university thesis on Harmonic Resonence in spells by Saddie Potlentle Ph.d and the last is Making it up as I go, the auto biography of Carmella Timplton, a witch from the 1880's that created a lot of the modern spells we still use today."
The girls beamed with excitement. "Thank you Ms.Pince!" The girls said in unison.
"You're very welcome dears." Ms.Pince smiled. "All of these can be borrowed so you can check them out and peruse them at your leisure. Any further questions on the subject I have a few more advanced books in my personal collection you can have a look at."
The books were fascinating though some bits were a bit hard to understand. The basics of Magical theory stated spells were more than just a series of words and motions. They were also feelings and emotions. They were less in the command and more in the subtleties.
The thesis talked about how the mind, the thoughts, had energy. Energy that became sound. Sound that resonated with the body and the wand and with the essence of magic itself. Most interesting was the biography of Carmella Timplton. She talked about how she created new spells. She would think of what she wanted the spell to do then instinctively let her mouth form the words. When the process worked tje results spoke for themselves. When they failed, more often than not the results were catastrophic.
Wand motions worked in a very similar way. The thought of what she wanted to cast flowed like water and if you followed the flow it formed a shape. That flow and that shape was the wand motion needed to cast the spell. It all sounded so simple.
Karry found a list of sounds and how they work together. She broke down Riddonkulous' original spell.
"Retrum Tollis" Kerry said. "Ret-rum, to reverse, Tol-lis, horrible effect."
"So it did what it was suppose to." Sasporilla said. "It reversed the kiss. It took the soul of the dementor and spit it out."
"But not all of it." Karry said. "Remember what you told me from your dads letter. A part of the dementor stayed behind."
"Like a seed." Sasporilla said. "That grew inside until he became a dementor."
Karry looked at the differences in the subtlety of sounds. After ten or so minutes Karry pushed her note book over. The words 'Retrumi Petrollus' scrawled and circled amongst scribbles and musings.
"The best I can work out," Karry said, "Retrumi Petrollus should work but I think you'll need to focus on your happiest thought. Like when you cast your patronus."
"How can we test it?" Sasporilla asked.
"Test it?" Karry asked. "You don't really plan to use it?"
"If I have to yes." Sasporilla said.
"I thought this was an intellectual exercise." Karry said. "You can't try it!"
"I need to know we've fixed my fathers spell." Sasporilla said. "I need to know it really works. Think of how many lives it could save!"
"And if we're wrong think of the one life we'll lose." Karry pleaded. "YOURS!"
Sasporilla saw the look of worry in her best friends eyes. They had both lost so much in their lives recently. Karry clearly wasn't prepared to lose anyone else.
"Ok." Sasporilla said taking the page from the note book. "I won't use it, unless I have no other choice.
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I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.