CARNIVAL du MYSTIQUE
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 14
It took a bit of last minute convincing but Mr.Beauxchamps and the midway council approved Sasporilla's wand cleaning and repair booth to be incorporated as an official midway booth for the extent of the festival. Sassy agreed to a twenty percent kick back, Ten percent to the midway council and ten percent to the Carnival du Mystique, as spot rental for her booth.
It was still two hours before the show opened. Sassy set up her full booth at the end of her caravan next to Agnes' fortune telling tent. She doubted she'd see much business but every galleon helped. Jorge was still asleep in his nest next to the kiddy pool she'd gotten him to stand in. After all, he was a water bird. It was a quiet moment. The perfect opportunity to catch up on a bit of letter writing, now that she had her own personal postal pet.
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Dear Karry;
It feels like a hundred years since we've spoken. How are you and Zac and my darling little Kam doing? He must be as big as Hagrid by now? Ha ha.
Selling the house wasn't as hard as you might think. As you now live in Hogsmeade, and my mom is no longer there, i felt no real emotional attachment to it. Thought I'd make the clean break.
The Carnival du Mystique is a fascinating experience. I'm the wand technician so I'm getting experience fixing and cleaning wands. As expected I love doing it. I've set up my booth to open up my services to a festival crowd for the next week or so. I hope to make a bit of dosh but who knows.
I do have a question for you?
We have a mirror here that attracts a customer wherever we go. I'll with hold her name for now as it might affect her professional reputation. It seems to have mirror of Erised like qualities but she won't let anyone else near it! She sees Professor Snape in it. I mean we all do when she's looking into it. The carnival owner says it's a failed prototype of the mirror of Erised but there is something about it? Can you look into the mirrors history in the Hogwarts library if you get the chance? I've taken a photo of it and have included it.
Oh this is Jorge my Flamingo. If he seems hungry he likes sushi and peanut-butter and jelly shrimp.
Will see you at summers end
Love
Sasporilla
**************************
Dear Uncle Nick;
I hope this letter finds you well. You better not be doing anything dangerous or stupid! Now that I've fully forgiven you, I don't want you to even slip on a banana peel and bang your bum!
I have put in all of my applications and paid my fees to University. I am very much looking forward to learning everything I can on making wands. Even if it means working in the back of someone else’s shop or going unrecognized in a small shop of my own for the rest of my life. As long as I'm doing what I love!
The carnival is a different sort of life. Up early, to bed late. Some days I have a lot of wands to service and others there are very few or none at all. Mr.Beauxchamps, the carnivals owner, often asks for volunteers for jobs around the carnival that pay. I volunteer to do them. Posting flyer around town. Helping out in other booths, Cleaning up around the grounds, etc. It's busy work and every galleon counts after all.
I'm trying to solve a bit of a mystery here. A lovely old woman named Mrs.Dumbleshire, who runs the Bubble World booth, keeps getting cases of wine gifted to her in different cities from a "secret admirer." She has a problem with drink and has to be replaced in her booth. I have a feeling it has something to do with a hatch I found in the floor of the booth but I don't know what or why???
I hope we can see each other before I go to school in the fall. I'll be stopping over in Hogsmeade end of August then heading to London to catch the shuttle to Avalon.
I Love you my darling Uncle;
Sasporilla
***********************
Dear Lyra;
Not sure where you are what you're doing these days but I'm almost certain you're doing loudly with flare! As I find myself out in the real world between simpler school life of Hogwarts and the unknown school life of University in Avalon, I find myself missing my friends. Especially you and Karry. If I tell Karry she'll drop her responsibilities and be here in a heart beat. I know you'd just tell me to "Suck it up, wide butt!"
I know what you're going to ask before you write back. Yes. I do still have feelings for him. No. I probably never will act on them. Oh and for what ever insult you said... SHUT IT!!! Ha ha!
By the way, this delivery bird is my flamingo Jorge. Play him some Latin music and get ready for the dance party. He's a riot!
Love as Always;
Sassy
****************************
At the stroke of ten am the dark cloak withdrew from the Carnival du Mystique which finally joined the Grande Dingle All Worlds Festival. People started to enter the grounds and take advantage of the rides, foods and services.
Sasporilla worked on the broken wand the elves had gifted her between the very few customers who came her way. The original woven nature of the wand required her to take great care reweaving the core. In a normal wand she would just pull the broken core and replace it with a new one. However this one was part of the weave of the wand as a whole. A very unique design, unlike anything else she'd ever worked on.
Jorge was a bit bored, standing in his pool, his tummy full of California rolls. He slid his goggles down over his crossed eyes bringing everything into focus. He pushed the play button on his walkman and filled his head with lovely Latin music as he soared into the air high above the festival taking in the sights of the shifting crowds, the rides and games, the colourful tents, the clowns and animals on parade. Jorge couldn't believe the size and scope of the festival. Circle upon circle of shows all closing in on each other culminating in one giant crowd surrounding a stage.
"Hello Dingle." The voice of Vinny Lazar called out to the crowd. The sound of his voice traveled across the festival grounds and finally found Sasporilla's ears, bringing a smile to her face. "We are The Dead End Oddity Shop. Maybe you've heard of us?"
The band started off by playing one of their greatest hits. Followed by another. Sasporilla was happy Melvin was near by. Even if he didn't remember her anymore, in some weird way she took comfort in his presence. She tapped her foot and hummed along with the song.
"Excuse me miss." An older witch interrupted Sassy back to reality. "I'd like my wand cleaned please."
"Yes mam." Sasporilla smiled taking the woman’s service booth ticket and giving the older witch’s wand a good service.
"This is a new song." Vinny said to the crowd. "From our new Album CANTATA INFANATIA. It's called 'I MISS YOU' It's for someone I'm struggling to remember but I can never forget."
The words of the song touched Sasporilla. Called to her. Sassy handed the woman back her wand then closed the shutters of the wand booth with her wand as she took off running across the carnival grounds. A sign hung itself on the booth saying back in thirty minutes.
Sasporilla found the crowds got thicker as she followed the songs closer to the festival center. Every new turn she made Sasporilla found herself blocked by another show that she had to wind her way through.
"I want to thank the Grande Dingle All Worlds Festival for inviting us to play for you today as this is the Dead End Oddity Shops last album and final tour." Vinny said much to the shock and dismay of the crowd. "I have other passions I've chosen to follow in life. Maybe one day you'll all understand. This is another song from our new album, it's called 'OH LOVE'!"
The applause was thunderous as the Dead End Oddity Shop finished their set and walked off stage. The next band up was 'Maria's First Wand' an all girl pop band out of Spain that was very popular with the nine to twelve year old witch crowd.
Myron Wagtail waited backstage with a witch with dark caramel coloured skin and long black curled hair with a whit stripe through the right side, dressed in long red robes with a heart shaped raised collar. Vinny Lazar walked up to them with a hopeful look on his face.
"Vinny Lazar," Myron said, "this is Madame Lorelei Amare."
"Pleased to meet you Madame." Vinny said.
"I understand you are need of my particular skills." The witch said. "Let us set up some place private. I must inspect him."
By the time Sasporilla reached the gates of the festival stage Dead End Oddity Shop had long since passed off stage. Parsons Wand Shop had Played and now Orwell was kicking up the heavy sound with their hit "Hangman’s Knot!"
"Excuse me! Hello!" Sasporilla called to the guard standing inside the gate but her words seemed to fall on deaf ears. "Hey you! Can you get Vinny Lazar? Tell him Sasporilla's here! I'm a friend!"
"I'm a friend too." Another girl yelled. "Tell him Becky's here!"
"And Ramona!" Another girl laughed. "I'll do things his other friends won't!"
"Yes I know." The guard chuckled. "You're all friends of Vinny's."
Sasporilla hung her head in exasperation.
Myron lead Madame Lorelei Amare followed by Vinny into a private meeting room off of the bands green room. It was small and a bit dark but had a few seats and was big enough for the work that needed to be done.
The witch pulled out her wand. Its handle was carved from rose crystal and its mother of pearl hearts and flower inlay spiraled up to the cherry wood tip. The witch pulled down on Vinny's cheeks and looked into his eyes. Tipped his head back, opened his head back and pointed her wand inside. "Openbaar liefde" the witch cast revealing only the faintest of glows. "Hmmm."
"Is it bad?" Myron asked.
"Hush!" The witch insisted as she took her wand and began drawing a glowing red circle on the floor around Vinny Lazar. "I am a love witch of the first order. What has been done to this young man is inconceivable and unconscionable! I have been trained by the masters of love witchcraft! I carry an Amortentia core wand designed and hand crafted by the one and only Dina Splatterpalette of Avalon herself! However I need time and room to assess the boy to see if the effects can be reversed."
She ran the wands tip along the floor forming a glowing red circle around Vinny Lazar.
"Stay very still." Madame Lorelei said as she blew a handful of shining silver dust into the circle which swirled around the young wizard.
"AMOREVELIO!" Madame Amare cast throwing sparks and colours of light flying in all directions making Myron jump to take cover behind the sofa.
The dust swirled and lifted Vinny Lazar into the air. His eyes glowed with a peaceful blue as his body glowed in a shadowed blue. A tiny spot of bright pink started to glow in the corner of the boys eye. A similar spot formed in the brain and in the heart tethered by thinnest of strands of love energy. The witch looked and followed the strands until she saw it. The love that sat withering but refusing to die deep within his heart. Not only it's tether to the memories no longer there, but the memories that fed the love, were gone as well.
"The boy is in a very bad way." Madame Lorelei Amare said. "If the Love can not be restored to be rekindled or released it could fester in the boys heart and leave him unbalanced and full of malice."
"If there’s anything at all you can do?" Myron pleaded. "The girl he loved is a dear friend to me. I loved her mother secretly for years. Those two kids were perfect for each other."
"Time will tell." Madame Amare said. "Cover your eyes. RESTORAMORE MAXIMA!"
The dust burst into swirls of rainbow light and poured into Vinny's eyes and into his mouth. His skin glowed with the pink glow of love. The heart felt love that refused to die held the memories that mind had lost. Though they could be replaced there was still no way to connect them. Vinny dropped back down to his feet and coughed out a bit of silvery dust.
"How do you feel young man?" Madame Lorelei Amare asked.
"The same pretty much." Vinny Lazar said.
"So it didn't work?" Myron sighed.
"On the contrary." The love witch smiled looking into Vinny’s eyes. "The first part of the spell has worked perfectly. The love in your heart is no longer like a dried rotting apple in the sun. It is now much more like a flower pre bloom."
"But I still only feel the one bit." Vinny said. "I just have the fragment of the one memory. The kiss."
"And in a kiss you will find that which will bloom the flower of love in your heart!" Madame Lorelei Amare smiled.
"What?" Vinny asked confused.
"Oh for Merlin’s sake!" The love witch said exasperated. "Go find the girl and give her a good kiss! It will complete the spell, reconnect your restored memories to the restored love in your heart. What you do with that love, rekindle it or release it? That's up to you!"
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Sasporilla found her way back to the Carnival du Mystique. She through herself into her work at the wand booth over next few days of the festival. She was sad that she'd missed Melvin but honestly she didn't know what she'd expected. She had no gate pass, no back stage pass. No one from the band was around and festival staff would have no clue who she was. To everyone involved she was just another obsessed fan looking for mote than an autograph from her favourite rock star.
It was bright and early Sunday morning when the first owl arrived bringing mail.
*************************
Dear Sasporilla;
Kameron and Zac are great. Yes Kam has grown so much! He's a very happy little man and seems very alert and curious. Hogsmeade is alive these days with archeological teams from the ministry coming and going. Everyone wants a look at GrazaKadabrass.
We recently found a vault filled with items that were pretagged with names, and addressed to witches and wizards alive in our world today! There was a book of instructions left, like a will of sorts, by the founding four to distribute these items to the people listed once the vault was opened! Zac received a ring. He was hesitant at first to even have it in the house but I insisted as it is from antiquity! Now he won't even take it off he loves it so much!
So Ms.Sasporilla Bucket, please find enclosed 1 small leather pouch marked with the ancient house crest of Hufflepuff, containing eight mummified elven fingers in their entirety. Why? I have no Idea, but it was quite at Helga Hufflepuff’s instance that you have them! You lucky girl!
I looked into your question of the mirror. There were no prior mirrors. No prototypes or experiments that I could find in legend however, according to Mr.Filch that mirror is actually Hogwarts property! Missing from the boathouse and presumed destroyed during the battle of Hogwarts. He said it's an ordinary mirror BUT Sassy I looked at the picture. I saw, in the reflection professor Snape peeking out from around a distant corner. Something odd is going on with that mirror!
Can't wait to see you come Augusts End.
Love and big Hugs;
Karry
*****************************
My Dearest Sassy;
Ya, you know me all to well. Your old Uncle Nick is off living the life of danger defusing magical traps with his teeth and killing vampires and werewolves with my big toes!
To be honest I'm on a team doing some weird but boring work investigating whatever is setting off break-in alarms at Gringots. The problem is, nothing is missing, nothings been stolen and no thief has been found. Probably a loose bloody niffler had pup's in caves again! Happened a century ago and caused no end of havoc! No ones taking it as to serious as it's always in the muggle paper money vaults. The cash they use for galleon exchange.
It's hard for me to see the little pink haired girl I knew who always had a hug for her Uncle Nick, all grown up and no longer needing me to help her up onto her chair any more. Guess that's all part of the circle of life ay? Ay? Going to start singing those muggle cartoon lion songs you used to love now.
I will catch up with you in London before you go.
Big Hugs you little monkey;
Uncle Nick
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Jorge returned tired with Sasporilla's letter for Lyra, seemingly unopened and unread. A large red scrawl across the front read...
RETURN TO SENDER - RECIPIANT UNKNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS
but in the corner was a small message. "Suck it up, Wide Butt!"
* The Character of Professor Dina Splatterpalette of Avalon is Based on a great friend and wonderful inspiration @splatterpalette on instagram
It took a bit of last minute convincing but Mr.Beauxchamps and the midway council approved Sasporilla's wand cleaning and repair booth to be incorporated as an official midway booth for the extent of the festival. Sassy agreed to a twenty percent kick back, Ten percent to the midway council and ten percent to the Carnival du Mystique, as spot rental for her booth.
It was still two hours before the show opened. Sassy set up her full booth at the end of her caravan next to Agnes' fortune telling tent. She doubted she'd see much business but every galleon helped. Jorge was still asleep in his nest next to the kiddy pool she'd gotten him to stand in. After all, he was a water bird. It was a quiet moment. The perfect opportunity to catch up on a bit of letter writing, now that she had her own personal postal pet.
*******************
Dear Karry;
It feels like a hundred years since we've spoken. How are you and Zac and my darling little Kam doing? He must be as big as Hagrid by now? Ha ha.
Selling the house wasn't as hard as you might think. As you now live in Hogsmeade, and my mom is no longer there, i felt no real emotional attachment to it. Thought I'd make the clean break.
The Carnival du Mystique is a fascinating experience. I'm the wand technician so I'm getting experience fixing and cleaning wands. As expected I love doing it. I've set up my booth to open up my services to a festival crowd for the next week or so. I hope to make a bit of dosh but who knows.
I do have a question for you?
We have a mirror here that attracts a customer wherever we go. I'll with hold her name for now as it might affect her professional reputation. It seems to have mirror of Erised like qualities but she won't let anyone else near it! She sees Professor Snape in it. I mean we all do when she's looking into it. The carnival owner says it's a failed prototype of the mirror of Erised but there is something about it? Can you look into the mirrors history in the Hogwarts library if you get the chance? I've taken a photo of it and have included it.
Oh this is Jorge my Flamingo. If he seems hungry he likes sushi and peanut-butter and jelly shrimp.
Will see you at summers end
Love
Sasporilla
**************************
Dear Uncle Nick;
I hope this letter finds you well. You better not be doing anything dangerous or stupid! Now that I've fully forgiven you, I don't want you to even slip on a banana peel and bang your bum!
I have put in all of my applications and paid my fees to University. I am very much looking forward to learning everything I can on making wands. Even if it means working in the back of someone else’s shop or going unrecognized in a small shop of my own for the rest of my life. As long as I'm doing what I love!
The carnival is a different sort of life. Up early, to bed late. Some days I have a lot of wands to service and others there are very few or none at all. Mr.Beauxchamps, the carnivals owner, often asks for volunteers for jobs around the carnival that pay. I volunteer to do them. Posting flyer around town. Helping out in other booths, Cleaning up around the grounds, etc. It's busy work and every galleon counts after all.
I'm trying to solve a bit of a mystery here. A lovely old woman named Mrs.Dumbleshire, who runs the Bubble World booth, keeps getting cases of wine gifted to her in different cities from a "secret admirer." She has a problem with drink and has to be replaced in her booth. I have a feeling it has something to do with a hatch I found in the floor of the booth but I don't know what or why???
I hope we can see each other before I go to school in the fall. I'll be stopping over in Hogsmeade end of August then heading to London to catch the shuttle to Avalon.
I Love you my darling Uncle;
Sasporilla
***********************
Dear Lyra;
Not sure where you are what you're doing these days but I'm almost certain you're doing loudly with flare! As I find myself out in the real world between simpler school life of Hogwarts and the unknown school life of University in Avalon, I find myself missing my friends. Especially you and Karry. If I tell Karry she'll drop her responsibilities and be here in a heart beat. I know you'd just tell me to "Suck it up, wide butt!"
I know what you're going to ask before you write back. Yes. I do still have feelings for him. No. I probably never will act on them. Oh and for what ever insult you said... SHUT IT!!! Ha ha!
By the way, this delivery bird is my flamingo Jorge. Play him some Latin music and get ready for the dance party. He's a riot!
Love as Always;
Sassy
****************************
At the stroke of ten am the dark cloak withdrew from the Carnival du Mystique which finally joined the Grande Dingle All Worlds Festival. People started to enter the grounds and take advantage of the rides, foods and services.
Sasporilla worked on the broken wand the elves had gifted her between the very few customers who came her way. The original woven nature of the wand required her to take great care reweaving the core. In a normal wand she would just pull the broken core and replace it with a new one. However this one was part of the weave of the wand as a whole. A very unique design, unlike anything else she'd ever worked on.
Jorge was a bit bored, standing in his pool, his tummy full of California rolls. He slid his goggles down over his crossed eyes bringing everything into focus. He pushed the play button on his walkman and filled his head with lovely Latin music as he soared into the air high above the festival taking in the sights of the shifting crowds, the rides and games, the colourful tents, the clowns and animals on parade. Jorge couldn't believe the size and scope of the festival. Circle upon circle of shows all closing in on each other culminating in one giant crowd surrounding a stage.
"Hello Dingle." The voice of Vinny Lazar called out to the crowd. The sound of his voice traveled across the festival grounds and finally found Sasporilla's ears, bringing a smile to her face. "We are The Dead End Oddity Shop. Maybe you've heard of us?"
The band started off by playing one of their greatest hits. Followed by another. Sasporilla was happy Melvin was near by. Even if he didn't remember her anymore, in some weird way she took comfort in his presence. She tapped her foot and hummed along with the song.
"Excuse me miss." An older witch interrupted Sassy back to reality. "I'd like my wand cleaned please."
"Yes mam." Sasporilla smiled taking the woman’s service booth ticket and giving the older witch’s wand a good service.
"This is a new song." Vinny said to the crowd. "From our new Album CANTATA INFANATIA. It's called 'I MISS YOU' It's for someone I'm struggling to remember but I can never forget."
The words of the song touched Sasporilla. Called to her. Sassy handed the woman back her wand then closed the shutters of the wand booth with her wand as she took off running across the carnival grounds. A sign hung itself on the booth saying back in thirty minutes.
Sasporilla found the crowds got thicker as she followed the songs closer to the festival center. Every new turn she made Sasporilla found herself blocked by another show that she had to wind her way through.
"I want to thank the Grande Dingle All Worlds Festival for inviting us to play for you today as this is the Dead End Oddity Shops last album and final tour." Vinny said much to the shock and dismay of the crowd. "I have other passions I've chosen to follow in life. Maybe one day you'll all understand. This is another song from our new album, it's called 'OH LOVE'!"
The applause was thunderous as the Dead End Oddity Shop finished their set and walked off stage. The next band up was 'Maria's First Wand' an all girl pop band out of Spain that was very popular with the nine to twelve year old witch crowd.
Myron Wagtail waited backstage with a witch with dark caramel coloured skin and long black curled hair with a whit stripe through the right side, dressed in long red robes with a heart shaped raised collar. Vinny Lazar walked up to them with a hopeful look on his face.
"Vinny Lazar," Myron said, "this is Madame Lorelei Amare."
"Pleased to meet you Madame." Vinny said.
"I understand you are need of my particular skills." The witch said. "Let us set up some place private. I must inspect him."
By the time Sasporilla reached the gates of the festival stage Dead End Oddity Shop had long since passed off stage. Parsons Wand Shop had Played and now Orwell was kicking up the heavy sound with their hit "Hangman’s Knot!"
"Excuse me! Hello!" Sasporilla called to the guard standing inside the gate but her words seemed to fall on deaf ears. "Hey you! Can you get Vinny Lazar? Tell him Sasporilla's here! I'm a friend!"
"I'm a friend too." Another girl yelled. "Tell him Becky's here!"
"And Ramona!" Another girl laughed. "I'll do things his other friends won't!"
"Yes I know." The guard chuckled. "You're all friends of Vinny's."
Sasporilla hung her head in exasperation.
Myron lead Madame Lorelei Amare followed by Vinny into a private meeting room off of the bands green room. It was small and a bit dark but had a few seats and was big enough for the work that needed to be done.
The witch pulled out her wand. Its handle was carved from rose crystal and its mother of pearl hearts and flower inlay spiraled up to the cherry wood tip. The witch pulled down on Vinny's cheeks and looked into his eyes. Tipped his head back, opened his head back and pointed her wand inside. "Openbaar liefde" the witch cast revealing only the faintest of glows. "Hmmm."
"Is it bad?" Myron asked.
"Hush!" The witch insisted as she took her wand and began drawing a glowing red circle on the floor around Vinny Lazar. "I am a love witch of the first order. What has been done to this young man is inconceivable and unconscionable! I have been trained by the masters of love witchcraft! I carry an Amortentia core wand designed and hand crafted by the one and only Dina Splatterpalette of Avalon herself! However I need time and room to assess the boy to see if the effects can be reversed."
She ran the wands tip along the floor forming a glowing red circle around Vinny Lazar.
"Stay very still." Madame Lorelei said as she blew a handful of shining silver dust into the circle which swirled around the young wizard.
"AMOREVELIO!" Madame Amare cast throwing sparks and colours of light flying in all directions making Myron jump to take cover behind the sofa.
The dust swirled and lifted Vinny Lazar into the air. His eyes glowed with a peaceful blue as his body glowed in a shadowed blue. A tiny spot of bright pink started to glow in the corner of the boys eye. A similar spot formed in the brain and in the heart tethered by thinnest of strands of love energy. The witch looked and followed the strands until she saw it. The love that sat withering but refusing to die deep within his heart. Not only it's tether to the memories no longer there, but the memories that fed the love, were gone as well.
"The boy is in a very bad way." Madame Lorelei Amare said. "If the Love can not be restored to be rekindled or released it could fester in the boys heart and leave him unbalanced and full of malice."
"If there’s anything at all you can do?" Myron pleaded. "The girl he loved is a dear friend to me. I loved her mother secretly for years. Those two kids were perfect for each other."
"Time will tell." Madame Amare said. "Cover your eyes. RESTORAMORE MAXIMA!"
The dust burst into swirls of rainbow light and poured into Vinny's eyes and into his mouth. His skin glowed with the pink glow of love. The heart felt love that refused to die held the memories that mind had lost. Though they could be replaced there was still no way to connect them. Vinny dropped back down to his feet and coughed out a bit of silvery dust.
"How do you feel young man?" Madame Lorelei Amare asked.
"The same pretty much." Vinny Lazar said.
"So it didn't work?" Myron sighed.
"On the contrary." The love witch smiled looking into Vinny’s eyes. "The first part of the spell has worked perfectly. The love in your heart is no longer like a dried rotting apple in the sun. It is now much more like a flower pre bloom."
"But I still only feel the one bit." Vinny said. "I just have the fragment of the one memory. The kiss."
"And in a kiss you will find that which will bloom the flower of love in your heart!" Madame Lorelei Amare smiled.
"What?" Vinny asked confused.
"Oh for Merlin’s sake!" The love witch said exasperated. "Go find the girl and give her a good kiss! It will complete the spell, reconnect your restored memories to the restored love in your heart. What you do with that love, rekindle it or release it? That's up to you!"
***************************
Sasporilla found her way back to the Carnival du Mystique. She through herself into her work at the wand booth over next few days of the festival. She was sad that she'd missed Melvin but honestly she didn't know what she'd expected. She had no gate pass, no back stage pass. No one from the band was around and festival staff would have no clue who she was. To everyone involved she was just another obsessed fan looking for mote than an autograph from her favourite rock star.
It was bright and early Sunday morning when the first owl arrived bringing mail.
*************************
Dear Sasporilla;
Kameron and Zac are great. Yes Kam has grown so much! He's a very happy little man and seems very alert and curious. Hogsmeade is alive these days with archeological teams from the ministry coming and going. Everyone wants a look at GrazaKadabrass.
We recently found a vault filled with items that were pretagged with names, and addressed to witches and wizards alive in our world today! There was a book of instructions left, like a will of sorts, by the founding four to distribute these items to the people listed once the vault was opened! Zac received a ring. He was hesitant at first to even have it in the house but I insisted as it is from antiquity! Now he won't even take it off he loves it so much!
So Ms.Sasporilla Bucket, please find enclosed 1 small leather pouch marked with the ancient house crest of Hufflepuff, containing eight mummified elven fingers in their entirety. Why? I have no Idea, but it was quite at Helga Hufflepuff’s instance that you have them! You lucky girl!
I looked into your question of the mirror. There were no prior mirrors. No prototypes or experiments that I could find in legend however, according to Mr.Filch that mirror is actually Hogwarts property! Missing from the boathouse and presumed destroyed during the battle of Hogwarts. He said it's an ordinary mirror BUT Sassy I looked at the picture. I saw, in the reflection professor Snape peeking out from around a distant corner. Something odd is going on with that mirror!
Can't wait to see you come Augusts End.
Love and big Hugs;
Karry
*****************************
My Dearest Sassy;
Ya, you know me all to well. Your old Uncle Nick is off living the life of danger defusing magical traps with his teeth and killing vampires and werewolves with my big toes!
To be honest I'm on a team doing some weird but boring work investigating whatever is setting off break-in alarms at Gringots. The problem is, nothing is missing, nothings been stolen and no thief has been found. Probably a loose bloody niffler had pup's in caves again! Happened a century ago and caused no end of havoc! No ones taking it as to serious as it's always in the muggle paper money vaults. The cash they use for galleon exchange.
It's hard for me to see the little pink haired girl I knew who always had a hug for her Uncle Nick, all grown up and no longer needing me to help her up onto her chair any more. Guess that's all part of the circle of life ay? Ay? Going to start singing those muggle cartoon lion songs you used to love now.
I will catch up with you in London before you go.
Big Hugs you little monkey;
Uncle Nick
*****************************
Jorge returned tired with Sasporilla's letter for Lyra, seemingly unopened and unread. A large red scrawl across the front read...
RETURN TO SENDER - RECIPIANT UNKNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS
but in the corner was a small message. "Suck it up, Wide Butt!"
* The Character of Professor Dina Splatterpalette of Avalon is Based on a great friend and wonderful inspiration @splatterpalette on instagram
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