NATURAL SELECTION
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 15
First thing after lunch Sasporilla Bucket met up with Rubious Hagrid by the Black Lake. He was standing there whistling loudly tryimg to get the attention of something in the water.
"Mr.Hagrid?" Sasporilla asked.
"Ah!" Hagrid smiled. "There's the girl. Miss Bucket I presumes?"
"Sasporilla." She smiled.
"An you can call me Hagrid. Ye don' need the Mister." Hagrid turned and looked at the calm black lake. "Where is he. Never roun' when ya wants 'im"
"Who?" Sasporilla asked quizically.
"Well the giant squid o' course. That's why yer here. T' help."
Sasporilla looked a Hagrid like he had 3 heads. "A giant squid? You want me to do something to get rid of it?"
"What?" Hagrid seemed amazed. "Get rid of ol' Ernie?"
"The giant squids name is Ernie?"
"Well tha's wha' I calls 'im. In truth 'e hasn' got a name." Hagrid explained. "H'es a bit testy but usually a good natured sort. I needs you to talk to 'im for me. Professor Dumbledor says you can talk to animals and such. I gots a message fer 'im that's right important."
Bubbles broke the inky still surface of the Black Lake. A large tentacle uncurled from below the water and slitheted onto the shore. It wrapped around Hagrids leg and pulled him off his feet lifting him high in the air above the gigantic head of the squid which peered up at him with its cyclopean eye.
"Ernie!" Hagrid scolded the beast. "Ya pu' me down!"
A deep guttural bellow came out of the beaked mouth of the giant squid. He motioned Hagrid above his gaping maw. Hagrid new if the squid let go of him now, he'd be lunch.
"Excuse me." Sasporilla said. "That is very rude."
The squid turned its eye towards her. It let out a small short groan.
"Yes I'm talking to you." Sasporilla said walking forward. "Put him down this instant. Your terrifying the poor man."
The beast groaned again and dropped Hagrid on the shore.
"No I don't think it was a funny joke at all." Saporilla scolded.
"Ernie ye shoud'n a...." Hagrid began but Sasporilla interrupted him.
"He doesn't like being called ERNIE." Sasporilla said.
"Wha'?" Hagrid asked rubbing his behind.
"He told me he doesn't want you to call him Ernie. That's why he pretended like he was going to eat you. To show you he is displeased with you."
Hagrid looked at Er... the giant squid and back to Sasporilla. "Oh well tell 'm I'm sorry an' ask him wha' he wan's me t' call 'im."
The beast spewed forth a deafening growl that carried for miles past Hogsmead. Sasporilla put her hands over her ears for fear of going deaf.
"He said he understands you even though you don't always seem to understand him. He wants to be called his highest regal exhaulted majesty of the depths of...." Sasporilla began.
"I'm not callen 'im tha'!" Hagrid said.
The groan was subtle but not missed by Sasporilla. "He says he's always been partial to Francis."
"Francis?" Hagrid asked as the big eye turned towards him. "Lovely name Francis is. OK then Francis Professor Dumbledor needs yer help an' cooperation a big important matter."
The giant squid clicked its beak.
"He asked What does Albous need?" Sasporilla said.
"Well", Hagrid explained, "we're havin' guests that'll be comin' by boat through the pass. They're gonna be stayin' on the boat in the Black Lake. Professor Dumbledor asks you ta just let'm be. We don't want to cause an incodent do we?"
The squid gurgled and chortled.
"No Francis," Sasporilla said tursley, "No practicsl jokes!"
"No jokes, no tusslein' the boat and no grabbin' or splashin' the guests." Hagrid said.
The giant squids groan was almost a whine.
"The secon' thing Professor Dumbledor would ask of you is to get hold of the Mer-king in the Lake. They need t' speak about the guests."
The great beast roared and lashed his tentacles in the water splashing huge amounts of cold water over Hagrid and Sasporilla then in a flash he was gone below the surface of the Black lake leaving only a ripple in his wake.
Sasporilla stood there drenched and freezing cold. "He said okie dokie."
First thing after lunch Sasporilla Bucket met up with Rubious Hagrid by the Black Lake. He was standing there whistling loudly tryimg to get the attention of something in the water.
"Mr.Hagrid?" Sasporilla asked.
"Ah!" Hagrid smiled. "There's the girl. Miss Bucket I presumes?"
"Sasporilla." She smiled.
"An you can call me Hagrid. Ye don' need the Mister." Hagrid turned and looked at the calm black lake. "Where is he. Never roun' when ya wants 'im"
"Who?" Sasporilla asked quizically.
"Well the giant squid o' course. That's why yer here. T' help."
Sasporilla looked a Hagrid like he had 3 heads. "A giant squid? You want me to do something to get rid of it?"
"What?" Hagrid seemed amazed. "Get rid of ol' Ernie?"
"The giant squids name is Ernie?"
"Well tha's wha' I calls 'im. In truth 'e hasn' got a name." Hagrid explained. "H'es a bit testy but usually a good natured sort. I needs you to talk to 'im for me. Professor Dumbledor says you can talk to animals and such. I gots a message fer 'im that's right important."
Bubbles broke the inky still surface of the Black Lake. A large tentacle uncurled from below the water and slitheted onto the shore. It wrapped around Hagrids leg and pulled him off his feet lifting him high in the air above the gigantic head of the squid which peered up at him with its cyclopean eye.
"Ernie!" Hagrid scolded the beast. "Ya pu' me down!"
A deep guttural bellow came out of the beaked mouth of the giant squid. He motioned Hagrid above his gaping maw. Hagrid new if the squid let go of him now, he'd be lunch.
"Excuse me." Sasporilla said. "That is very rude."
The squid turned its eye towards her. It let out a small short groan.
"Yes I'm talking to you." Sasporilla said walking forward. "Put him down this instant. Your terrifying the poor man."
The beast groaned again and dropped Hagrid on the shore.
"No I don't think it was a funny joke at all." Saporilla scolded.
"Ernie ye shoud'n a...." Hagrid began but Sasporilla interrupted him.
"He doesn't like being called ERNIE." Sasporilla said.
"Wha'?" Hagrid asked rubbing his behind.
"He told me he doesn't want you to call him Ernie. That's why he pretended like he was going to eat you. To show you he is displeased with you."
Hagrid looked at Er... the giant squid and back to Sasporilla. "Oh well tell 'm I'm sorry an' ask him wha' he wan's me t' call 'im."
The beast spewed forth a deafening growl that carried for miles past Hogsmead. Sasporilla put her hands over her ears for fear of going deaf.
"He said he understands you even though you don't always seem to understand him. He wants to be called his highest regal exhaulted majesty of the depths of...." Sasporilla began.
"I'm not callen 'im tha'!" Hagrid said.
The groan was subtle but not missed by Sasporilla. "He says he's always been partial to Francis."
"Francis?" Hagrid asked as the big eye turned towards him. "Lovely name Francis is. OK then Francis Professor Dumbledor needs yer help an' cooperation a big important matter."
The giant squid clicked its beak.
"He asked What does Albous need?" Sasporilla said.
"Well", Hagrid explained, "we're havin' guests that'll be comin' by boat through the pass. They're gonna be stayin' on the boat in the Black Lake. Professor Dumbledor asks you ta just let'm be. We don't want to cause an incodent do we?"
The squid gurgled and chortled.
"No Francis," Sasporilla said tursley, "No practicsl jokes!"
"No jokes, no tusslein' the boat and no grabbin' or splashin' the guests." Hagrid said.
The giant squids groan was almost a whine.
"The secon' thing Professor Dumbledor would ask of you is to get hold of the Mer-king in the Lake. They need t' speak about the guests."
The great beast roared and lashed his tentacles in the water splashing huge amounts of cold water over Hagrid and Sasporilla then in a flash he was gone below the surface of the Black lake leaving only a ripple in his wake.
Sasporilla stood there drenched and freezing cold. "He said okie dokie."