Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Friendship
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 10
Sasporilla sat at the breakfast table sharing on a rather delicious piece of melon with her monkey Gooseberry. Wednesdays Schedule saw a Sudden and abrupt change. Sasporillas usual helping with the grounds had been canceled and she was ordered to the side of the Black Lake for 9 am, and it asked that she bring her friend Lyra Lee-Ashwolf with her if she so wished.
"Sassy!" Lyra yelled jumping down in the seat beside her. "Good to see ya up n' around."
"Thanks." Sasporilla smiled.
"Whatcha got there?" Lyra said snatching the paper. "Ah your slave schedule."
Lyra read it over and saw the big red CHANGE ALERT flashing on the paper. She read the changes which specifically asked for her as well. "What the fu...?"
"I know." Sasporilla interrupted. "It requests I bring you along to the Black Lake?"
"It's probably an extension of my detention." Lyra said standing up and crawling onto the Hufflepuff breakfast table where she stood proudly and faced the head table. "Not satisfied with detaining me behind bars every afternoon any more? Now you want me to work hard labour like some kind road crew in a southern prison? Well I am no ones slave!"
"This is going to be good." A gryphindor laughed.
"I hope she gets her kit off again." Another said.
"Miss Lee-Ashwolf." Professor Snape snapped. "Sit down!"
"Not as long as injustice reigns in the hierarchy of our enslaving overlords."
"Lyra." Headmaster Dumbledore said appearing beside the breakfast table. "Please allow me to explain. You are not required to attend. You've been asked to accompany your friend in her task if you wish to. It is your choice I assure you."
Lyra looked dumfounded. "Well then. Ok."
Lyra jumped off the table and sat down beside her friend. "What's the gig?"
"The gig?" Professor Dumbledore asked.
"I think she's asking what you require us to do headmaster?" Sasporilla said.
"Ah yes." The headmaster said quietly. "Tomorrow is the 2nd challenge in the Tri-Wizard tournament. I will need volunteers to stand in places along the shore of the Black Lake to effect assistance to any one who finds themselves in danger. I felt Miss Bucket, though a first year, has skills that would be invaluable to lend assistance. As for you Miss Lee-Ashwolf you are a fifth year with every skill necessary to effectively help where needed. I just thought as it will be a long period of time, standing and waiting for hopefully nothing to happen, that perhaps Miss Bucket would like the company. But if you do not wish to accompany your friend then please feel free to do as you wish."
Lyra sat there a tad embarrassed, watching the headmaster walk away.
"So?" Sasporilla asked. "Coming with me."
"Like I'd let you do the rescue rangers things without me. Last time you went to the Black Lake you fell in and nearly drowned. What a clutz bag."
Sassy tugged Lyras hair. Lyra tossed toast at Sasporilla in response. The 2 girls sat and laughed.
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Wednesday morning found Sasporilla and Lyra standing in icy temperatures at the side of the Black Lake, in a small crowd of volunteers and conscripts from all three schools. The Headmasters of each school stood before them.
"Welcome volunteers." Headmaster Dumbledore smiled. "We, the headmasters of your schools, have chosen you for a very important task. Each have you have exhibited remarkable qualities which makes you perfect for the task at hand."
Albus Dumbledore motioned to the other headmasters. Each of them held out a small circular metal object which flipped open like a pocket watch.
"These are rescodinators." Professor Dumbledore said. "They are linked to small metal bands that each Tri-wizard champion wears on their wrist. If a champion is truly in distress and in your area the Rescodinatior will pop open and set off a red flare. Thus you would be wise not to keep the device in your pocket but hold it or place it near you where it is easily seen."
A bag with Rescodinators was passed around the crowd.
"Each of you." Madame Maxime of Beauxbatons school said. "Have a partner therefore you will only need one between the 2 of you. May I suggest the more responsible of the 2 of you hang on to it."
"That was a shot at me!" Lyra said taking a deep breath to yell something out but Sasporilla accidentally stomped on her foot.
"Oops sorry." Sasporilla said hanging onto the rescondinator.
Professor Karkaroff of Durmstrang went next. "You will each be assigned a place on or around the Black Lake. If trouble arises and the Rescondinator goes off do your best to rescue the champion. As the dangers of the Black Lake are very real we ask you use caution. Understand that you will not be alone as you have your partner and a team of Professors will be coming to your aid within a minute."
With a wave of Dumbledores wand a large green magical outlined map of the Black Lake appeared before him. Different coloured markers showed where each group would go and below was a list of names in corresponding colours. Sasporilla and Lyra were designated for the pink marker set halfway up the lake on the shore between the castle and the station at Hogsmead. The map turned horizontally in the air and stretched out until it was a colourful one to one scale outline of the lake, placing all teams at their designated locations.
Sasporilla and Lyra looked around at the thick trees that surrounded the shoreline clearing they stood in. A couple of old logs sat beside a stone fire pit.
"Get some twigs." Lyra said. "No sense in sitting here freezing while we do this."
Sasporilla collected some sticks and twigs. Lyra placed them in the stone circle.
"Got my merit badge in campfire building in the girl scouts." Lyra smiled proudly as she pointed her wand at the teepee shaped pile of wood. "Inflamari!"
The wood burst into flame and before long they were sitting around a snug little camp fire.
"Wait." Sasporilla said. "You were a girl scout?"
"Ya." Lyra smiled. "I was in it for the cookies."
Sassy put the rescodinator on the log beside her where she could keep an eye on it.
Lyra handed Sassy a stick with a marshmallow on it. Sassy saw a small bag of them on the log next to her friend.
"Where did you get these?" Sassy asked amused at her friends never ending antics.
"I always carry a bag of marshmallows." Lyra smiled "They're my one indulgence."
"What do you do with them like this?" Sasporilla asked.
"You're kidding right?" Lyra said completely amazed.
"No." Sassy shook her head now feeling a bit dumb.
"Ok", Lyra said coming over to sit next to her friend. "You hold out your stick like this and put your marshmellow barely into the flame."
Sasporilla followed along doing everything Lyra did.
"Now you turn it a bit then when it starts to look melty but before it burns we pull it out. Blow on it and pop it in your mouth." Lyra said.
Sassys eyes widened. It was sweet and gooey but it was like a hot ball of molten lava in her mouth. Sasporilla started waving her hand in front of her open mouth trying unsuccessfully to say 'hot'.
"Ya they can be a bit warm." Lyra laughed.
The sound of Albus Dumbledores voice echoed across the waters of the Black Lake followed by the loud BANG of a canon.
"Sounds like its on." Lyra said.
"Yes." Sassy said. "I wonder what they have to do?"
"Probably have to take a pearl from the giant squid or something like that." Lyra mused.
"Wow." Sasporilla cringed. "Francis wouldn't like that."
"Francis?" Lyra asked. "The giant squids name is Francis."
"Well it's the name we all finally agreed to." Sasporilla chuckled. "He's partial to it."
"Fair enough." Lyra said.
The pair sat in silence for a minute enjoying the gentle lapping of the lake on the shore and the warmth of the fire.
"So." Sasporilla broke the silence. "Are you leaving school after your O.W.L's , or are you staying on to 7th year for your N.E.W.T's?"
"Didn't think I'd even make it to my O.W.L's." Lyra said stoking the fire. "Figured I'd be kicked out by now. I don't mind Hogwarts because I've got something here I haven't had anywhere else."
"What's that?" Sassy asked.
"A friend." Lyra said rubbing Sassys hair.
"I've never had a friend either before you." Sasporilla said rubbing her friends hair too.
"I'm debating if I want to travel for a couple years then go into social sciences in a muggle university or stay in the magical community and get my N.E.W.T's."
"I hope you stay." Sassy smiled. "But you have to follow your own path."
The rescodinator flipped open and a flare of bright red shot straight up into the air.
The girs jumped to there feet as a the rescodinator beamed live images of Fleur Delacour in distress just off shore from where they are. Grindylows, small tentacled creatures with large mouths full of sharp teeth mobbed Fleur Delacour and dragged down into there warrens in the kelp below.
"I can stun them." Lyra said pulling her wand, "but if I do it'll stun her too. Can you pull her up if I stun the grindylows?"
"Yes." Sasporilla said.
"Are you sure?" Lyra asked.
"Trust me." Sassy yelled.
Lyra ran to the waters edge and plunged her wand into the icy depths. "Stupefy!"
A burst of magic flowed through the water and struck the grindylows and Fleur rendering them motionless.
Sasporilla reached her arms out the waters of the Black Lake which rose up to meet her fingertips her arms became as water and stretched down into the icy depths. Lyra looked in amazement. No wand, no incantations. Arms of water wrapped around Fleur Delacour and started drawing her to the surface. Sasporilla hung on tightly as she pulled with all her might.
"She's heavy." Sasporilla cringed walking backwards up the beach. Lyra grabbed hold of Sasporilla and added her weight to the pull until Fleur Delacour was safely ashore.
Fleur Spit out water as Sassy and Lyra sat huffing and puffing.
"Thank you." Fleur said.
Teachers began to appear from all directions. Professor Sprout, Professor Moody and Professor Snape were the response team for this area of the lake. They surrounded Fluer and checked her out.
"Are you ok girl?" Professor Sprout asked.
"Yes." Fleur said.
"What happened?" Allister Moody asked.
"Ze Grindylows grabbed me." Fleur said. "Zay were all over me and I could not... échapper."
"Miss Bucket, Miss Lee-Ashwolf", professor snape nodded, "excelent work. 50 points for Hufflepuff."
Sasporilla sat at the breakfast table sharing on a rather delicious piece of melon with her monkey Gooseberry. Wednesdays Schedule saw a Sudden and abrupt change. Sasporillas usual helping with the grounds had been canceled and she was ordered to the side of the Black Lake for 9 am, and it asked that she bring her friend Lyra Lee-Ashwolf with her if she so wished.
"Sassy!" Lyra yelled jumping down in the seat beside her. "Good to see ya up n' around."
"Thanks." Sasporilla smiled.
"Whatcha got there?" Lyra said snatching the paper. "Ah your slave schedule."
Lyra read it over and saw the big red CHANGE ALERT flashing on the paper. She read the changes which specifically asked for her as well. "What the fu...?"
"I know." Sasporilla interrupted. "It requests I bring you along to the Black Lake?"
"It's probably an extension of my detention." Lyra said standing up and crawling onto the Hufflepuff breakfast table where she stood proudly and faced the head table. "Not satisfied with detaining me behind bars every afternoon any more? Now you want me to work hard labour like some kind road crew in a southern prison? Well I am no ones slave!"
"This is going to be good." A gryphindor laughed.
"I hope she gets her kit off again." Another said.
"Miss Lee-Ashwolf." Professor Snape snapped. "Sit down!"
"Not as long as injustice reigns in the hierarchy of our enslaving overlords."
"Lyra." Headmaster Dumbledore said appearing beside the breakfast table. "Please allow me to explain. You are not required to attend. You've been asked to accompany your friend in her task if you wish to. It is your choice I assure you."
Lyra looked dumfounded. "Well then. Ok."
Lyra jumped off the table and sat down beside her friend. "What's the gig?"
"The gig?" Professor Dumbledore asked.
"I think she's asking what you require us to do headmaster?" Sasporilla said.
"Ah yes." The headmaster said quietly. "Tomorrow is the 2nd challenge in the Tri-Wizard tournament. I will need volunteers to stand in places along the shore of the Black Lake to effect assistance to any one who finds themselves in danger. I felt Miss Bucket, though a first year, has skills that would be invaluable to lend assistance. As for you Miss Lee-Ashwolf you are a fifth year with every skill necessary to effectively help where needed. I just thought as it will be a long period of time, standing and waiting for hopefully nothing to happen, that perhaps Miss Bucket would like the company. But if you do not wish to accompany your friend then please feel free to do as you wish."
Lyra sat there a tad embarrassed, watching the headmaster walk away.
"So?" Sasporilla asked. "Coming with me."
"Like I'd let you do the rescue rangers things without me. Last time you went to the Black Lake you fell in and nearly drowned. What a clutz bag."
Sassy tugged Lyras hair. Lyra tossed toast at Sasporilla in response. The 2 girls sat and laughed.
****************************
Wednesday morning found Sasporilla and Lyra standing in icy temperatures at the side of the Black Lake, in a small crowd of volunteers and conscripts from all three schools. The Headmasters of each school stood before them.
"Welcome volunteers." Headmaster Dumbledore smiled. "We, the headmasters of your schools, have chosen you for a very important task. Each have you have exhibited remarkable qualities which makes you perfect for the task at hand."
Albus Dumbledore motioned to the other headmasters. Each of them held out a small circular metal object which flipped open like a pocket watch.
"These are rescodinators." Professor Dumbledore said. "They are linked to small metal bands that each Tri-wizard champion wears on their wrist. If a champion is truly in distress and in your area the Rescodinatior will pop open and set off a red flare. Thus you would be wise not to keep the device in your pocket but hold it or place it near you where it is easily seen."
A bag with Rescodinators was passed around the crowd.
"Each of you." Madame Maxime of Beauxbatons school said. "Have a partner therefore you will only need one between the 2 of you. May I suggest the more responsible of the 2 of you hang on to it."
"That was a shot at me!" Lyra said taking a deep breath to yell something out but Sasporilla accidentally stomped on her foot.
"Oops sorry." Sasporilla said hanging onto the rescondinator.
Professor Karkaroff of Durmstrang went next. "You will each be assigned a place on or around the Black Lake. If trouble arises and the Rescondinator goes off do your best to rescue the champion. As the dangers of the Black Lake are very real we ask you use caution. Understand that you will not be alone as you have your partner and a team of Professors will be coming to your aid within a minute."
With a wave of Dumbledores wand a large green magical outlined map of the Black Lake appeared before him. Different coloured markers showed where each group would go and below was a list of names in corresponding colours. Sasporilla and Lyra were designated for the pink marker set halfway up the lake on the shore between the castle and the station at Hogsmead. The map turned horizontally in the air and stretched out until it was a colourful one to one scale outline of the lake, placing all teams at their designated locations.
Sasporilla and Lyra looked around at the thick trees that surrounded the shoreline clearing they stood in. A couple of old logs sat beside a stone fire pit.
"Get some twigs." Lyra said. "No sense in sitting here freezing while we do this."
Sasporilla collected some sticks and twigs. Lyra placed them in the stone circle.
"Got my merit badge in campfire building in the girl scouts." Lyra smiled proudly as she pointed her wand at the teepee shaped pile of wood. "Inflamari!"
The wood burst into flame and before long they were sitting around a snug little camp fire.
"Wait." Sasporilla said. "You were a girl scout?"
"Ya." Lyra smiled. "I was in it for the cookies."
Sassy put the rescodinator on the log beside her where she could keep an eye on it.
Lyra handed Sassy a stick with a marshmallow on it. Sassy saw a small bag of them on the log next to her friend.
"Where did you get these?" Sassy asked amused at her friends never ending antics.
"I always carry a bag of marshmallows." Lyra smiled "They're my one indulgence."
"What do you do with them like this?" Sasporilla asked.
"You're kidding right?" Lyra said completely amazed.
"No." Sassy shook her head now feeling a bit dumb.
"Ok", Lyra said coming over to sit next to her friend. "You hold out your stick like this and put your marshmellow barely into the flame."
Sasporilla followed along doing everything Lyra did.
"Now you turn it a bit then when it starts to look melty but before it burns we pull it out. Blow on it and pop it in your mouth." Lyra said.
Sassys eyes widened. It was sweet and gooey but it was like a hot ball of molten lava in her mouth. Sasporilla started waving her hand in front of her open mouth trying unsuccessfully to say 'hot'.
"Ya they can be a bit warm." Lyra laughed.
The sound of Albus Dumbledores voice echoed across the waters of the Black Lake followed by the loud BANG of a canon.
"Sounds like its on." Lyra said.
"Yes." Sassy said. "I wonder what they have to do?"
"Probably have to take a pearl from the giant squid or something like that." Lyra mused.
"Wow." Sasporilla cringed. "Francis wouldn't like that."
"Francis?" Lyra asked. "The giant squids name is Francis."
"Well it's the name we all finally agreed to." Sasporilla chuckled. "He's partial to it."
"Fair enough." Lyra said.
The pair sat in silence for a minute enjoying the gentle lapping of the lake on the shore and the warmth of the fire.
"So." Sasporilla broke the silence. "Are you leaving school after your O.W.L's , or are you staying on to 7th year for your N.E.W.T's?"
"Didn't think I'd even make it to my O.W.L's." Lyra said stoking the fire. "Figured I'd be kicked out by now. I don't mind Hogwarts because I've got something here I haven't had anywhere else."
"What's that?" Sassy asked.
"A friend." Lyra said rubbing Sassys hair.
"I've never had a friend either before you." Sasporilla said rubbing her friends hair too.
"I'm debating if I want to travel for a couple years then go into social sciences in a muggle university or stay in the magical community and get my N.E.W.T's."
"I hope you stay." Sassy smiled. "But you have to follow your own path."
The rescodinator flipped open and a flare of bright red shot straight up into the air.
The girs jumped to there feet as a the rescodinator beamed live images of Fleur Delacour in distress just off shore from where they are. Grindylows, small tentacled creatures with large mouths full of sharp teeth mobbed Fleur Delacour and dragged down into there warrens in the kelp below.
"I can stun them." Lyra said pulling her wand, "but if I do it'll stun her too. Can you pull her up if I stun the grindylows?"
"Yes." Sasporilla said.
"Are you sure?" Lyra asked.
"Trust me." Sassy yelled.
Lyra ran to the waters edge and plunged her wand into the icy depths. "Stupefy!"
A burst of magic flowed through the water and struck the grindylows and Fleur rendering them motionless.
Sasporilla reached her arms out the waters of the Black Lake which rose up to meet her fingertips her arms became as water and stretched down into the icy depths. Lyra looked in amazement. No wand, no incantations. Arms of water wrapped around Fleur Delacour and started drawing her to the surface. Sasporilla hung on tightly as she pulled with all her might.
"She's heavy." Sasporilla cringed walking backwards up the beach. Lyra grabbed hold of Sasporilla and added her weight to the pull until Fleur Delacour was safely ashore.
Fleur Spit out water as Sassy and Lyra sat huffing and puffing.
"Thank you." Fleur said.
Teachers began to appear from all directions. Professor Sprout, Professor Moody and Professor Snape were the response team for this area of the lake. They surrounded Fluer and checked her out.
"Are you ok girl?" Professor Sprout asked.
"Yes." Fleur said.
"What happened?" Allister Moody asked.
"Ze Grindylows grabbed me." Fleur said. "Zay were all over me and I could not... échapper."
"Miss Bucket, Miss Lee-Ashwolf", professor snape nodded, "excelent work. 50 points for Hufflepuff."
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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.
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.