All Seems Darkest Before The Dawn Cometh
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 6
Sasporilla awoke in the infirmary to the sound of hushed tones. She could hear Professor Sprout and Professor Mcgonagall speaking with Madam Pomfrey.
"If those two boys hadn't brought her to us when they did the Bucket girl would be dead." Madam Pomfrey said angrily.
"We must put a stop to this Minerva." Professor Sprout said.
"I agree Pomona," Professor Mcgonagall said, "I'd quit in a heart beat to protest but we don't dare leave the children in the hands of these animals!"
"If we organize the good teachers we could stand against the rest and take back the school." Professor Sprout said.
"Yes but you're forgetting about the dementors Snape has guarding the school and the death eaters at Snapes command." Professor Mcgonagall said sitting on one of the empty beds. "I fear any actions we take will have dire repercussions on the children."
"Let's give them a bloody good kicking!" Sasporilla said standing and grabbing her wand from the night stand.
The world spun and everything went black as Sasporilla fell to the floor still very weak from Professor Carrows attack.
"She is brave." Professor Mcgonagall said. "She reminds me of Potter in many ways."
"Yes she's a tough little monkey." Professor Sprout said.
"Yes", Madam Pomfrey said, "now do you think you could help me get her back into bed?"
It was around five a.m. the next day that Sasporilla floated back to consciousness.
She pulled herself painfully out of bed and stood by the open window watching the suns light rise in the east over the black lake. A distant murmur of a roar echoed through the morning air.
"I see you in that window Sasporilla Bucket." The giant squid called.
"Hello Francis." Sasporilla roared back. "I've missed you."
"What is all that noise!" Madam Pomfrey yelled stepping into the infirmary. "Miss Bucket get back into that bed!"
"I was just talking to the giant squid." Sasporilla said listening to another distant roar.
"Why are you injured Sasporilla Bucket?" Francis asked.
"Professor Carrow attacked me for refusing to do dark magic." Sasporilla roared. "Be careful of him."
Madam Pomfrey through her hands over her ears. "Girl you'll deafen us all!"
Sasporilla was ushered back to her bed and given a spoonful of some horrible tasting medicine that sparkled on her tongue.
"There." Madam Pomfrey said. "Few more days you'll be right as rain."
"I heard you all talking." Sasporilla said. "I agree that action is a must."
"Just forget what you heard girl and concentrate on getting well." Madam Pomfrey said. "Leave this to the adults."
Sasporilla snuggled back into her bed and drifted off to sleep with some help from the medicine.
After breakfast Kerry and Korry were escorted up to the infirmary by professors Mcgonagall and Sprout. No students were allowed to wander the school unaccompanied. Even though it was a Saturday morning, the new rules were held in full effect.
"How are you feeling?" Karry asked sitting on the bed forcing her friend to scootch over.
"I'm fine." Sasporilla laughed. "Bit sore in the chest but other wise good."
"I brought you something." Korry said handing Sassy a purple box with a red, and yellow ribbon that she was sure was torn from a pair of Gryphindor curtains. "Tied the ribbon myself."
Sassy opened the box. Inside were two packs of chocolate frogs and a pack of jelly slugs.
"Thanks." Sasporilla smiled.
"From my private supply." Korry smiled.
"I'll treasure each bite." Sasporilla laughed. "When I open the jelly slugs how long should I let them breathe?"
"You fool." Karry said. "You must let jelly slugs age for a year before opening then let breathe for forty five minutes."
"Of course." Sasporilla said.
Karry looked at the bandaids on her friends face.
"We heard what that animal did." Karry said cringing at the burns. "Looks like everyone's too afraid to do anything against them."
"What goes around comes around." Sasporilla said. "Hopefully it will come around very soon for Professor Carrow."
"His sister is just as bad." Korry said. "She was pulling an Umbridge in detentions. Not using the cursed quills but she'd torture you for talking back."
"I heard Neville Longbottom disarmed her once and stupified her." Karry said.
"No purpose spreading rumors Miss Curtiss." Professor Sprout said.
"Even if they may be true." Professor Mcgonagall smiled.
The professors left their side to walk over to the windows to give the children a bit of privacy.
"So what's the plan?" Karry asked.
"Ya." Korry said. "We've been waiting to know what you want us to do???"
"Who said I was in charge?" Sasporilla asked. "I want to fight, but I can't ask anyone else to join me. These people are Death Eaters. Killers! They make Umbridge look like a kitten. We all have to play this smarter than we have been."
A distant roar caught Sasporillas attention. Francis had called her name. Sassy crawled out of bed and limped to the window between Professors Sprout and Mcgonagall. The Curtiss twins were fast in behind her.
Amycus Carrow took his morning walk along the side of the Black Lake. He walked with his hands tightly clenched behind his back. He enjoyed the brisk morning air as he watched the ripples in the water.
A giant tentacle shot up out of the lake and came down hard on the Professor who tried to unsuccessfully jump out of the way. When the tentacle raised back up and slid back beneath the water it revealed Professor Carrow lay badly broken pushed down into the soft earth.
Professor Sprout looked suitably shocked. Professor Mcgonagall smiled. Sasporilla and the Curtiss twins laughed and cheered.
Professor Carrow was rushed to the infirmary, alive but with no less than one hundred and three broken bones, looking very much like a swatted fly. Madam Pomfrey said there was little she could do for him at Hogwarts. Professor Carrow was sent to Saint Mungos for emergency treatment.
Later that night, some time after dinner Drooble the head house elf walked into the Infirmary.
"Hello Miss Sasporilla." Drooble smiled and waved as he stopped at madam Pomfreys desk. Pleasantries exchanged the house elf loped over to see his favorite student.
"Hello Drooble." Sasporilla smiled.
"I would have come sooner but today is the first day you were allowed visitors." Drooble explained. "I wasn't sure what your favorite flowers were?"
"I like daisys." Sasporilla smiled.
"A girl of simple tastes." Drooble said snapping his fingers producing a large bouquet of Daisys. "For you."
"Thank you sir." Sasporilla said. "They are absolutely beautiful."
Madam Pomfrey brought over a vase and set the flowers up on Sassys night stand.
"How are you feeling?" Drooble asked.
"Much better thank you." Sasporilla said.
"Good, Good, Good." Drooble said. "Miss Sasporilla Bucket, Drooble must ask you, why do you endure this torture from the dark wizards?"
"People are to scared to fight right now Drooble." Sasporilla said.
"Yes I understand why they don't fight, but you could easily disarm them and make them.." Drooble snapped his fingers. "...disappear."
"That was what I wanted to talk to you about." Sasporilla said patting the bed. Drooble jumped up and sat cross legged on the bed. "I have snapped my fingers and made things happen two or three times now, but I can't do it consistently."
"Drooble told you it would come eventually." Drooble smiled excitedly. "Now it has come!"
"But I don't know how to use it all the time." Sasporilla said.
"Do you whistle?" Drooble asked.
"What?" Sasporilla asked confused.
"Whistle!" Drooble said pursing his lips and trying to whistle unsuccessfully.
"Yes of course." Sasporilla said whistling for the elf.
"Yes!" Drooble clapped. "Do you remember when you first tried to whistle and you did it like Drooble?"
"Yes." Sasporilla thought back. "I guess I was about four. I whistled accidently so I tried all day and couldn't do it again. Then I don't know why I tried it a bit differently and just did it."
"Exactly." Drooble smiled. "You stopped trying to whistle and whistled."
Sasporilla looked at her fingers and whistled. "And now whistling is second nature. I do it when I want and sometimes without realizing it."
"And this is how you must do it." Stop trying to use your magic and just use it naturally."
"Thank you Drooble." Sasporilla hugged the small elf. "You've been a great help.
Sasporilla awoke in the infirmary to the sound of hushed tones. She could hear Professor Sprout and Professor Mcgonagall speaking with Madam Pomfrey.
"If those two boys hadn't brought her to us when they did the Bucket girl would be dead." Madam Pomfrey said angrily.
"We must put a stop to this Minerva." Professor Sprout said.
"I agree Pomona," Professor Mcgonagall said, "I'd quit in a heart beat to protest but we don't dare leave the children in the hands of these animals!"
"If we organize the good teachers we could stand against the rest and take back the school." Professor Sprout said.
"Yes but you're forgetting about the dementors Snape has guarding the school and the death eaters at Snapes command." Professor Mcgonagall said sitting on one of the empty beds. "I fear any actions we take will have dire repercussions on the children."
"Let's give them a bloody good kicking!" Sasporilla said standing and grabbing her wand from the night stand.
The world spun and everything went black as Sasporilla fell to the floor still very weak from Professor Carrows attack.
"She is brave." Professor Mcgonagall said. "She reminds me of Potter in many ways."
"Yes she's a tough little monkey." Professor Sprout said.
"Yes", Madam Pomfrey said, "now do you think you could help me get her back into bed?"
It was around five a.m. the next day that Sasporilla floated back to consciousness.
She pulled herself painfully out of bed and stood by the open window watching the suns light rise in the east over the black lake. A distant murmur of a roar echoed through the morning air.
"I see you in that window Sasporilla Bucket." The giant squid called.
"Hello Francis." Sasporilla roared back. "I've missed you."
"What is all that noise!" Madam Pomfrey yelled stepping into the infirmary. "Miss Bucket get back into that bed!"
"I was just talking to the giant squid." Sasporilla said listening to another distant roar.
"Why are you injured Sasporilla Bucket?" Francis asked.
"Professor Carrow attacked me for refusing to do dark magic." Sasporilla roared. "Be careful of him."
Madam Pomfrey through her hands over her ears. "Girl you'll deafen us all!"
Sasporilla was ushered back to her bed and given a spoonful of some horrible tasting medicine that sparkled on her tongue.
"There." Madam Pomfrey said. "Few more days you'll be right as rain."
"I heard you all talking." Sasporilla said. "I agree that action is a must."
"Just forget what you heard girl and concentrate on getting well." Madam Pomfrey said. "Leave this to the adults."
Sasporilla snuggled back into her bed and drifted off to sleep with some help from the medicine.
After breakfast Kerry and Korry were escorted up to the infirmary by professors Mcgonagall and Sprout. No students were allowed to wander the school unaccompanied. Even though it was a Saturday morning, the new rules were held in full effect.
"How are you feeling?" Karry asked sitting on the bed forcing her friend to scootch over.
"I'm fine." Sasporilla laughed. "Bit sore in the chest but other wise good."
"I brought you something." Korry said handing Sassy a purple box with a red, and yellow ribbon that she was sure was torn from a pair of Gryphindor curtains. "Tied the ribbon myself."
Sassy opened the box. Inside were two packs of chocolate frogs and a pack of jelly slugs.
"Thanks." Sasporilla smiled.
"From my private supply." Korry smiled.
"I'll treasure each bite." Sasporilla laughed. "When I open the jelly slugs how long should I let them breathe?"
"You fool." Karry said. "You must let jelly slugs age for a year before opening then let breathe for forty five minutes."
"Of course." Sasporilla said.
Karry looked at the bandaids on her friends face.
"We heard what that animal did." Karry said cringing at the burns. "Looks like everyone's too afraid to do anything against them."
"What goes around comes around." Sasporilla said. "Hopefully it will come around very soon for Professor Carrow."
"His sister is just as bad." Korry said. "She was pulling an Umbridge in detentions. Not using the cursed quills but she'd torture you for talking back."
"I heard Neville Longbottom disarmed her once and stupified her." Karry said.
"No purpose spreading rumors Miss Curtiss." Professor Sprout said.
"Even if they may be true." Professor Mcgonagall smiled.
The professors left their side to walk over to the windows to give the children a bit of privacy.
"So what's the plan?" Karry asked.
"Ya." Korry said. "We've been waiting to know what you want us to do???"
"Who said I was in charge?" Sasporilla asked. "I want to fight, but I can't ask anyone else to join me. These people are Death Eaters. Killers! They make Umbridge look like a kitten. We all have to play this smarter than we have been."
A distant roar caught Sasporillas attention. Francis had called her name. Sassy crawled out of bed and limped to the window between Professors Sprout and Mcgonagall. The Curtiss twins were fast in behind her.
Amycus Carrow took his morning walk along the side of the Black Lake. He walked with his hands tightly clenched behind his back. He enjoyed the brisk morning air as he watched the ripples in the water.
A giant tentacle shot up out of the lake and came down hard on the Professor who tried to unsuccessfully jump out of the way. When the tentacle raised back up and slid back beneath the water it revealed Professor Carrow lay badly broken pushed down into the soft earth.
Professor Sprout looked suitably shocked. Professor Mcgonagall smiled. Sasporilla and the Curtiss twins laughed and cheered.
Professor Carrow was rushed to the infirmary, alive but with no less than one hundred and three broken bones, looking very much like a swatted fly. Madam Pomfrey said there was little she could do for him at Hogwarts. Professor Carrow was sent to Saint Mungos for emergency treatment.
Later that night, some time after dinner Drooble the head house elf walked into the Infirmary.
"Hello Miss Sasporilla." Drooble smiled and waved as he stopped at madam Pomfreys desk. Pleasantries exchanged the house elf loped over to see his favorite student.
"Hello Drooble." Sasporilla smiled.
"I would have come sooner but today is the first day you were allowed visitors." Drooble explained. "I wasn't sure what your favorite flowers were?"
"I like daisys." Sasporilla smiled.
"A girl of simple tastes." Drooble said snapping his fingers producing a large bouquet of Daisys. "For you."
"Thank you sir." Sasporilla said. "They are absolutely beautiful."
Madam Pomfrey brought over a vase and set the flowers up on Sassys night stand.
"How are you feeling?" Drooble asked.
"Much better thank you." Sasporilla said.
"Good, Good, Good." Drooble said. "Miss Sasporilla Bucket, Drooble must ask you, why do you endure this torture from the dark wizards?"
"People are to scared to fight right now Drooble." Sasporilla said.
"Yes I understand why they don't fight, but you could easily disarm them and make them.." Drooble snapped his fingers. "...disappear."
"That was what I wanted to talk to you about." Sasporilla said patting the bed. Drooble jumped up and sat cross legged on the bed. "I have snapped my fingers and made things happen two or three times now, but I can't do it consistently."
"Drooble told you it would come eventually." Drooble smiled excitedly. "Now it has come!"
"But I don't know how to use it all the time." Sasporilla said.
"Do you whistle?" Drooble asked.
"What?" Sasporilla asked confused.
"Whistle!" Drooble said pursing his lips and trying to whistle unsuccessfully.
"Yes of course." Sasporilla said whistling for the elf.
"Yes!" Drooble clapped. "Do you remember when you first tried to whistle and you did it like Drooble?"
"Yes." Sasporilla thought back. "I guess I was about four. I whistled accidently so I tried all day and couldn't do it again. Then I don't know why I tried it a bit differently and just did it."
"Exactly." Drooble smiled. "You stopped trying to whistle and whistled."
Sasporilla looked at her fingers and whistled. "And now whistling is second nature. I do it when I want and sometimes without realizing it."
"And this is how you must do it." Stop trying to use your magic and just use it naturally."
"Thank you Drooble." Sasporilla hugged the small elf. "You've been a great help.
PLEASE REMEMBER
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.
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.