In Through the Out Door
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 17
Crinklesunpin, the light weaver elf, was summoned to the Headmistresses office at Hogwarts. It took several hours before the older elf arrived. Not that it took that long for the message to find her or for the weaver elf to respond. The fact that she had been summoned encouraged her to simply keep them all waiting.
"Who dares SUMMON me?" Crinklesunpin demanded.
"I did." Minister of Magic Kingsly Shacklebolt said. "I want to know about an item woven by one of your kind."
"Why should I help you wizard?" The weaver elf hissed.
"You won't be helping him as much as helping me." Sasporilla Bucket said.
Crinklesunpin turned to see the pink haired witch holding out her arm with the Conflux bracelet on her wrist. The old elf ran forward and grabbed her hand.
"Where did you find this abomination?" Crinklesunpin asked.
"The conflux bracelet was supplied with standard equipment by the ministries sporting division." Headmistress McGonagall said.
"This is not some wizard made Conflux bracelet!" Crinklesunpin spat. "These were woven during the muggle wars by a weaver elf blood wizard named Wolfgang Meyer. They were used by evil muggle men to take away the powers of Witches, Wizards and Elves that refused to join their cause. Those bound by these 'Markebinden' bracelets were put in camps or worse."
"That's awful." Sasporilla said. "What kind of evil muggles could do such things?"
"They're called fascists." Professor Lee-Ashwolf said. "They're sick bullies that spread fear and hatred. No different from Voldemort and his mindless sycophantic thralls."
"They come around in the muggle world of politics all the time." Professor McGonagall said. "They leave a wake of corpses and destruction as they pass."
"But they do pass?" Karry asked.
"The same way Voldemort passed." Kingsly Shacklebolt said. "When they are beaten back down by good people."
"Anyone who tells you lies and says believe them because I say they're true." The headmistress began. "Anyone who tells you what you can and can't say because it goes against the way they want you to say. Any one who tells you one group of people are worse than another because of their relion or colour of their skin or their country of origin, Anyone who encourages violence and death in the name of purifying the blood line is a fascist."
Sasporilla looked at the bracelet on her arm and pictured the hate that went into its weave.
"How do I get this off me?" Sasporilla asked.
"With a key." Crinklesunpin smiled evilly.
"Do you have one?" Karry asked.
"Yes and no." Crinklesunpin laughed.
Kingsly Shacklebolt rushed the weaver elf and grabbed her firmly by the shoulders. "Do not toy with us weaver, when a child is involved you will find I am in no mood for it!"
Crinklesunpin snapped her fingers and vanished. Her laughter echoed through the halls of Hogwarts.
"Well at least we know what we're dealing with." The headmistress sighed. "Perhaps there is a mention of them in books written about the great muggle war."
"Which muggle war was that?" Sasporilla asked.
"They called it world war two." Kingsly Shacklebolt said gruffly, frustrated by the vexing situation.
In the following weeks Sasporilla was put to work as dueling club equipment manger. She was replaced by Angela Dumpfry, a Slytherin that didn't originally quite make the team.
The news of the Markebinden bracelets spread through the schools and the ministry of magic. Several had been sent out with dueling equipment kits as well as provided for other sports where rules stated conflux bracelets must be worn. A grand total of nine more incidents of elf blood students being branded were reported from other schools. One professor at a smaller school in the south insisted they were fine and placed it on his own wrist. He too was now trapped and branded W77198.
Storys of the "War Shackles" as the Daily Prophet had termed them, graced every issue of the wizarding news every day but no one seemed to have the answer as how to take them off.
"I don't under stand it." Karry pondered. "Why are there no references to these kind of bracelets being used, in any history book?"
"Maybe we need muggle history books?" Sasporilla said. "After all it was their war."
"I've tried those too." Karry said pulling out a book on world war two from her bag. "My father sent me this from home. It chronicles the war but there's no mention of magical peoples. Although the atrocities these muggles did to others in the name of blood purification is by and far worse than the damage done by death eaters."
Sasporilla flipped through the book and found something horrible but relevant in a picture of prisoners of the death camps. Amongst the emaciated muggles dressed in tattered striped uniforms was a man with a "W" on his shirt. The other muggles had six pointed stars or triangles on their shirts.
"Look at this." Sasporilla said pointing to the person in the picture.
"I didn't notice the 'W'!" Karry said. "To busy reading the words to see the pictures right in front of my face!"
Karry peered at the photograph and pulled out her wand. "Magnify." The picture grew to the size of both open pages of the book.
"That's it!" Karry said. "Look at the wrist."
Sasporilla looked at the wrist of the person marked with the "W" and sure enough they were wearing a Markebinden Bracelet.
"Well there's our proof Crinklesunpin was telling the truth." Sassy said. "But why doesn't any book talk about it?"
"Maybe because no one remembers?" Karry mused.
"A mass obliviate spell?" Sassy asked.
"It would be a mercy on those who had to undergo such horrors." Karry said.
"Then why do the muggles remember?" Sasporilla asked.
"The magical community would care about the muggles for the most part." Karry said. "I imagine the witch trials were still very much in the witching memory."
"I am disgusted by the horrors people do to each other." Sasporilla said. "Magical and muggle alike!"
The girls brought the book to the headmistress' attention at dinner time. She was amazed at the photograph. Not just because the diligent girls had found evidence of magical people being imprisoned in camps during the war, but she knew the face of the person in the photo. That man was Elloton Stravinski.
"He was a professor of Muggle studies here at Hogwarts for a number of years." Professor McGonagall said. "I never heard him speak of this."
"We have a theory on that Headmistress." Karry said. "We think every witch or wizard was subject to some sort of memory charm."
"I was alive during the war." Professor McGonagall said. "I was a child but... maybe you're on to something."
Crinklesunpin, the light weaver elf, was summoned to the Headmistresses office at Hogwarts. It took several hours before the older elf arrived. Not that it took that long for the message to find her or for the weaver elf to respond. The fact that she had been summoned encouraged her to simply keep them all waiting.
"Who dares SUMMON me?" Crinklesunpin demanded.
"I did." Minister of Magic Kingsly Shacklebolt said. "I want to know about an item woven by one of your kind."
"Why should I help you wizard?" The weaver elf hissed.
"You won't be helping him as much as helping me." Sasporilla Bucket said.
Crinklesunpin turned to see the pink haired witch holding out her arm with the Conflux bracelet on her wrist. The old elf ran forward and grabbed her hand.
"Where did you find this abomination?" Crinklesunpin asked.
"The conflux bracelet was supplied with standard equipment by the ministries sporting division." Headmistress McGonagall said.
"This is not some wizard made Conflux bracelet!" Crinklesunpin spat. "These were woven during the muggle wars by a weaver elf blood wizard named Wolfgang Meyer. They were used by evil muggle men to take away the powers of Witches, Wizards and Elves that refused to join their cause. Those bound by these 'Markebinden' bracelets were put in camps or worse."
"That's awful." Sasporilla said. "What kind of evil muggles could do such things?"
"They're called fascists." Professor Lee-Ashwolf said. "They're sick bullies that spread fear and hatred. No different from Voldemort and his mindless sycophantic thralls."
"They come around in the muggle world of politics all the time." Professor McGonagall said. "They leave a wake of corpses and destruction as they pass."
"But they do pass?" Karry asked.
"The same way Voldemort passed." Kingsly Shacklebolt said. "When they are beaten back down by good people."
"Anyone who tells you lies and says believe them because I say they're true." The headmistress began. "Anyone who tells you what you can and can't say because it goes against the way they want you to say. Any one who tells you one group of people are worse than another because of their relion or colour of their skin or their country of origin, Anyone who encourages violence and death in the name of purifying the blood line is a fascist."
Sasporilla looked at the bracelet on her arm and pictured the hate that went into its weave.
"How do I get this off me?" Sasporilla asked.
"With a key." Crinklesunpin smiled evilly.
"Do you have one?" Karry asked.
"Yes and no." Crinklesunpin laughed.
Kingsly Shacklebolt rushed the weaver elf and grabbed her firmly by the shoulders. "Do not toy with us weaver, when a child is involved you will find I am in no mood for it!"
Crinklesunpin snapped her fingers and vanished. Her laughter echoed through the halls of Hogwarts.
"Well at least we know what we're dealing with." The headmistress sighed. "Perhaps there is a mention of them in books written about the great muggle war."
"Which muggle war was that?" Sasporilla asked.
"They called it world war two." Kingsly Shacklebolt said gruffly, frustrated by the vexing situation.
In the following weeks Sasporilla was put to work as dueling club equipment manger. She was replaced by Angela Dumpfry, a Slytherin that didn't originally quite make the team.
The news of the Markebinden bracelets spread through the schools and the ministry of magic. Several had been sent out with dueling equipment kits as well as provided for other sports where rules stated conflux bracelets must be worn. A grand total of nine more incidents of elf blood students being branded were reported from other schools. One professor at a smaller school in the south insisted they were fine and placed it on his own wrist. He too was now trapped and branded W77198.
Storys of the "War Shackles" as the Daily Prophet had termed them, graced every issue of the wizarding news every day but no one seemed to have the answer as how to take them off.
"I don't under stand it." Karry pondered. "Why are there no references to these kind of bracelets being used, in any history book?"
"Maybe we need muggle history books?" Sasporilla said. "After all it was their war."
"I've tried those too." Karry said pulling out a book on world war two from her bag. "My father sent me this from home. It chronicles the war but there's no mention of magical peoples. Although the atrocities these muggles did to others in the name of blood purification is by and far worse than the damage done by death eaters."
Sasporilla flipped through the book and found something horrible but relevant in a picture of prisoners of the death camps. Amongst the emaciated muggles dressed in tattered striped uniforms was a man with a "W" on his shirt. The other muggles had six pointed stars or triangles on their shirts.
"Look at this." Sasporilla said pointing to the person in the picture.
"I didn't notice the 'W'!" Karry said. "To busy reading the words to see the pictures right in front of my face!"
Karry peered at the photograph and pulled out her wand. "Magnify." The picture grew to the size of both open pages of the book.
"That's it!" Karry said. "Look at the wrist."
Sasporilla looked at the wrist of the person marked with the "W" and sure enough they were wearing a Markebinden Bracelet.
"Well there's our proof Crinklesunpin was telling the truth." Sassy said. "But why doesn't any book talk about it?"
"Maybe because no one remembers?" Karry mused.
"A mass obliviate spell?" Sassy asked.
"It would be a mercy on those who had to undergo such horrors." Karry said.
"Then why do the muggles remember?" Sasporilla asked.
"The magical community would care about the muggles for the most part." Karry said. "I imagine the witch trials were still very much in the witching memory."
"I am disgusted by the horrors people do to each other." Sasporilla said. "Magical and muggle alike!"
The girls brought the book to the headmistress' attention at dinner time. She was amazed at the photograph. Not just because the diligent girls had found evidence of magical people being imprisoned in camps during the war, but she knew the face of the person in the photo. That man was Elloton Stravinski.
"He was a professor of Muggle studies here at Hogwarts for a number of years." Professor McGonagall said. "I never heard him speak of this."
"We have a theory on that Headmistress." Karry said. "We think every witch or wizard was subject to some sort of memory charm."
"I was alive during the war." Professor McGonagall said. "I was a child but... maybe you're on to something."
Learn to recognize Fascism! It is here in our world now!
We must stop it before it's to late!
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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.