Return to the Chamber of Secrets
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 2
The students of Hogwarts poured into the great hall. Light flickered from the lit candles that floated magically above. They stood out against the starry night sky which masked the rafters of the great hall. Students sat at their house tables gabbing about the events of the summer past.
The first years were brought in and marched to the front by Professor Slughorn for the sorting ceremony.
"See that one?" Sasporilla said to Karry pointing to the girl with wild red hair. "That's Katelynn Ashwolf. Lyra's cousin."
"Really?" Karry smiled. "I'll have to say hello. What's she like."
"Bit of a nightmare really." Sasporilla said. "I road in on the Hogwarts Express with her."
"Worse than Lyra at first?" Karry asked.
"Different." Sassy frowned. "Didn't see any sense of Lyras Social Conscience. She's got quite a sense of self importance and seems to have a bit of chip on her shoulder."
"So a typical American?" Karry laughed.
"That's not fair." Sasporilla laughed giving Karry a nudge. "There are good and bad people from all countries."
The sorting ceremony began and as by tradition the children were called one by one, Alphabetically.
"Katelynn Ashwolf." Professor Slughorn called from the role. The name made the Headmistress stop chatting and take notice. She had been advised there would be another Ashwolf at Hogwarts. Headmistress McGonagall only hoped Hogwarts could endure it.
Katelynn Ashwolf sat on the stool with a proud smug look on her face. She knew she was a Slytherin, through to her bones. The sorting hat was lowered onto her wild red hair. The hat latched on and came alive and started to sing.
The students of Hogwarts poured into the great hall. Light flickered from the lit candles that floated magically above. They stood out against the starry night sky which masked the rafters of the great hall. Students sat at their house tables gabbing about the events of the summer past.
The first years were brought in and marched to the front by Professor Slughorn for the sorting ceremony.
"See that one?" Sasporilla said to Karry pointing to the girl with wild red hair. "That's Katelynn Ashwolf. Lyra's cousin."
"Really?" Karry smiled. "I'll have to say hello. What's she like."
"Bit of a nightmare really." Sasporilla said. "I road in on the Hogwarts Express with her."
"Worse than Lyra at first?" Karry asked.
"Different." Sassy frowned. "Didn't see any sense of Lyras Social Conscience. She's got quite a sense of self importance and seems to have a bit of chip on her shoulder."
"So a typical American?" Karry laughed.
"That's not fair." Sasporilla laughed giving Karry a nudge. "There are good and bad people from all countries."
The sorting ceremony began and as by tradition the children were called one by one, Alphabetically.
"Katelynn Ashwolf." Professor Slughorn called from the role. The name made the Headmistress stop chatting and take notice. She had been advised there would be another Ashwolf at Hogwarts. Headmistress McGonagall only hoped Hogwarts could endure it.
Katelynn Ashwolf sat on the stool with a proud smug look on her face. She knew she was a Slytherin, through to her bones. The sorting hat was lowered onto her wild red hair. The hat latched on and came alive and started to sing.
"I see inside your mind.
I feel inside your heart. Your hopes and your ambitions Of you are all a part. You're not afraid to speak your mind Or hard work when allowed You believe your crafty, mean and dark Of this I see you're proud You're smarter than most that put me on But less than the greatest I've seen Though you believe that with all your heart You're the greatest that's ever been. So in any house you'd fit real well But you know where you belong In the house of Salazar Slytherin But in this you are wrong For I'm the hat so wise I can sort through all this stuff And put you in the house that's right You are HUFFLEPUFF!" |
"WHAT!?!" Katelynn Ashwolf screamed. "You've gotta be kidding me!"
"The sorting hat makes no mistakes young lady." Professor Slughorn said.
"My cousin will hear of this!" Katelynn yelled storming out of the great hall.
Blossom Kowalski took her duties as Hufflepuff Head Girl very seriously and she saw a young Hufflepuff upset and in need of help, support and guidance. She rushed out of the great hall, after the young Hufflepuff followed by Professor Sprout. One by one the other first years were sorted into their houses. Everyone else seemed happy with their results. By the end of the ceremony Katelynn Ashwolf was escorted back to the Hufflepuff table. Blossoms hair stood on end and Professor Sprouts hat was smoldering.
"Before we begin this new year at Hogwarts," Headmistress McGonagall began, "I would like to take a moment to thank one of our esteemed seventh year students, Ms.Karry Curtiss, for agreeing to stay on with our Library team to continue the work on reviewing and cataloguing the papers of Albus Dumbledore."
Karry stood and gave a polite thankful wave.
"Now let the feast begin!" The headmistress said.
Every student and teacher tucked in to one of the best meals the house elves had ever prepared for the school. Zacs eyes rolled back into his head, like a shark in a feeding frenzy, as he bit into the tender prime rib roast. Karry knew the elves made food that was far better than anything her or Zac could make on their own. Sasporilla enjoyed the roast Chicken. Drooble made the best chestnut stuffing to go with it. Sassy was probably the only non elf to know the secret ingredients were sage and nutmeg.
After dinner Sasporilla and Karry met up with Zac outside the great hall. They headed away from the flows of students that went to their houses. They headed into the library past the counter and the tables, through the shelves of books and to a set of circular stairs Sasporilla had never seen before. Karry headed down them first followed by Sassy, and then Zac.
The steps lead down into a basement filled with shelves of dust volumes and piles of boxes that formed a confusing maze of temporary corridors. Somewhere deep in the back was an old cupboard. Karry reached inside and pulled out her wand.
"Lumos!" Karry cast lighting a lamp hanging in the back over her small desk. Karry stepped in and shuffled to the side of the desk between a stack of boxes to get to her chair. Karry sat and pulled the lid off a cardboard box. From it she pulled a journal and two scrolls.
"While going through the documents of Albus Dumbledore I found that I'd been given the journals and papers for his last ten years."
"Cool." Sassy smiled politely looking around at the claustrophobic space Karry worked in.
"I discovered something very interesting." Karry said opening the journal to a marked page and turned it to face her friend. "Read this."
Sassy looked at the journal. Its parchment pages were inked in the handwriting of Dumbledore himself. The heading read...
'Sasporilla Imaginarium Bucket.'
"He wrote about me?" Sassy asked.
"Read it." Karry laughed.
"I met with young Miss Bucket and her mother tonight. They were excited that Sasporilla was to attend Hogwarts. They had no idea the true reasons why the girl was offered the scholarship. She would never master the powers granted by her elven bloodline without the close mentoring and monitoring of other elves.
Once it was discovered that her lack of magical ability was being caused by conflict in her royal elven bloodline and royal Avalonian bloodline."
Sasporilla stopped reading and stared blankly at Karry then at Zac who both smiled at her excitedly. Sasporilla read on.
"As the true heir of Stilskin Elf crown and niece of the current Witch Queen of Avalon, from the founding royal family of Avalon, miss Bucket comes from very powerful blood lines. She has been raised in ignorance of her birth right, and is as humble and kind a soul as I have ever met. We have granted her entry into Hogwarts and agreed to instruct her in all of the ways of magic at the insistence of the Stilskin matron 'Daisy' with all first year tuition and housing paid for by the Avalon Royal house. Both sides have their eyes on the girl for their own political agendas. God help her. An unwitting rope in a game of tug of war. I hope to warn her before she graduates from Hogwarts... Was he serious? "
Karry unrolled the two scrolls. They illustrated both of Sasporillas royal bloodlines, joining the Wizarding Royal house with the Elven Royal house, in her.
"What do you think?" Zac asked Sassy.
"I think I'm going to feint!" Sassy said.
"Get her royal majesty a chair would you love?" Karry asked ofher husband Zac who scooted a chair in under Sasporillas back side before it could hit the ground.
"To be honest I don't know that much about the rites and traditions of either royal house but I thought you'd find this exciting." Karry said.
"More overwhelmingly disconcerting than exciting I'm afraid." Sassy cringed. "I now understand so much. Melvin's mothers turn around on me after learning who my grand parents were. The people who attended my fathers funeral. It all makes a lot of sense now."
"Everything except why your parents kept it all from you?" Zac asked.
"No I get it." Sasporilla nodded. "That kind of life isn't the kind of life they wanted. It was the farthest from what they had. They wanted to be simple people and live a simple life."
"And you?" Karry asked.
"Don't really know?" Sasporilla said. "Have to think about it. Learn more about it guess to make an informed choice, but frankly I feel it would get in the way of me bring a wand maker."
"I found a bunch of stuff about Harry Potter." Karry said pulling out another journal and opening it to a page, bookmarked with a Phoenix feather.
"Harry Potter and his friends have left the Basalisk guardian dead and rescued Ginny Weasly from the Chamber of secrets. Luckily they did not search any further and the vaults containing all of the true secrets of Salazar Slytherin remain unopened. All but the one from which I took the Pensive years ago. I have sealed the Chamber of Secrets and collapsed its front entrance. Sealing it off permanently from any students who learns of it accidentally or otherwise. I have left the pit entry open but have magically disguised it so that only someone who knows of its exact location may find it again."
"Wow." Sasporilla said. "I wonder what's down there?"
"That is exactly what I said.," Karry smiled.
"And me." Zac said.
"What is this Pensive, he talks about?" Sassy asked.
"It was a bowl for watching magically stored memories. It was found in his office after they cleared it out of his things." Karry said. "I had to ask someone else on the team who was researching documents from around the time of Tom Riddle. Jasmine Lee."
"Oh my god that horrible American Slytherin girl?" Sassy gasped. "She is so rude!"
"And mean!" Zac said. "I'm honestly happy she finished her N,W,T's and graduated."
"Yes, but like us ,she's going on to the teaching collage here at Hogwarts." Karry sighed. "So she's still around."
"At least I won't run into her in the common room any more." Zac laughed.
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Katelynn Ashwolf sat in the corridor out side of the Hufflepuff common room door. She didn't want to be Hufflepuff! She knew she was a Slytherin. She debated just leaving. Running away from Hogwarts and returning home. Any other school must be better than this, if her bring here meant being a Hufflepuff!
"I can't believe cousin Lyra was a Hufflepuff." Katelynn said sniffing and wiping a tear from her eye.
"I know," a voice said from the shadows, "being a Hufflepuff is quite a dark mark on the family. No pun, intended."
"Who's there?" Katelynn asked jumping to her feat.
A taller than average Chinese girl in jade green robes stepped from the shadows. Her long black hair hung straight down to her waist. Her high set cheekbones emphasized her thin slanted eyes.
"My name is Jasmine Lee." the girl said, "you are Katelynn Ashwolf. Daughter of Xander and Holly-Hop Ashwolf. Cousin of Lyra Lee-Ashwolf on her fathers side as I am a cousin on her mothers side."
"So what does that make us?" Katelynn asked.
"Cousins by marriage." Jasmine smiled trying to instill a sense of family bond in the girl.
"What house are you?" Katelynn asked. "I'm Slytherin of course."
"Lucky you." Katelynn said folding her arms and pouting.
"What if I told you I was working on a way to help you prove your worth to the house of Salazar Slytherin." Jasmine asked. "Would you be interested."
"You bet I would!" Katelynn said excitedly. "I'd do anything to be a Slytherin."
"Good." Jasmine grinned. "I'll see about finding you some loyal companions from Slytherin. You'll need help for the tasks ahead. I will be in touch, cousin."
"The sorting hat makes no mistakes young lady." Professor Slughorn said.
"My cousin will hear of this!" Katelynn yelled storming out of the great hall.
Blossom Kowalski took her duties as Hufflepuff Head Girl very seriously and she saw a young Hufflepuff upset and in need of help, support and guidance. She rushed out of the great hall, after the young Hufflepuff followed by Professor Sprout. One by one the other first years were sorted into their houses. Everyone else seemed happy with their results. By the end of the ceremony Katelynn Ashwolf was escorted back to the Hufflepuff table. Blossoms hair stood on end and Professor Sprouts hat was smoldering.
"Before we begin this new year at Hogwarts," Headmistress McGonagall began, "I would like to take a moment to thank one of our esteemed seventh year students, Ms.Karry Curtiss, for agreeing to stay on with our Library team to continue the work on reviewing and cataloguing the papers of Albus Dumbledore."
Karry stood and gave a polite thankful wave.
"Now let the feast begin!" The headmistress said.
Every student and teacher tucked in to one of the best meals the house elves had ever prepared for the school. Zacs eyes rolled back into his head, like a shark in a feeding frenzy, as he bit into the tender prime rib roast. Karry knew the elves made food that was far better than anything her or Zac could make on their own. Sasporilla enjoyed the roast Chicken. Drooble made the best chestnut stuffing to go with it. Sassy was probably the only non elf to know the secret ingredients were sage and nutmeg.
After dinner Sasporilla and Karry met up with Zac outside the great hall. They headed away from the flows of students that went to their houses. They headed into the library past the counter and the tables, through the shelves of books and to a set of circular stairs Sasporilla had never seen before. Karry headed down them first followed by Sassy, and then Zac.
The steps lead down into a basement filled with shelves of dust volumes and piles of boxes that formed a confusing maze of temporary corridors. Somewhere deep in the back was an old cupboard. Karry reached inside and pulled out her wand.
"Lumos!" Karry cast lighting a lamp hanging in the back over her small desk. Karry stepped in and shuffled to the side of the desk between a stack of boxes to get to her chair. Karry sat and pulled the lid off a cardboard box. From it she pulled a journal and two scrolls.
"While going through the documents of Albus Dumbledore I found that I'd been given the journals and papers for his last ten years."
"Cool." Sassy smiled politely looking around at the claustrophobic space Karry worked in.
"I discovered something very interesting." Karry said opening the journal to a marked page and turned it to face her friend. "Read this."
Sassy looked at the journal. Its parchment pages were inked in the handwriting of Dumbledore himself. The heading read...
'Sasporilla Imaginarium Bucket.'
"He wrote about me?" Sassy asked.
"Read it." Karry laughed.
"I met with young Miss Bucket and her mother tonight. They were excited that Sasporilla was to attend Hogwarts. They had no idea the true reasons why the girl was offered the scholarship. She would never master the powers granted by her elven bloodline without the close mentoring and monitoring of other elves.
Once it was discovered that her lack of magical ability was being caused by conflict in her royal elven bloodline and royal Avalonian bloodline."
Sasporilla stopped reading and stared blankly at Karry then at Zac who both smiled at her excitedly. Sasporilla read on.
"As the true heir of Stilskin Elf crown and niece of the current Witch Queen of Avalon, from the founding royal family of Avalon, miss Bucket comes from very powerful blood lines. She has been raised in ignorance of her birth right, and is as humble and kind a soul as I have ever met. We have granted her entry into Hogwarts and agreed to instruct her in all of the ways of magic at the insistence of the Stilskin matron 'Daisy' with all first year tuition and housing paid for by the Avalon Royal house. Both sides have their eyes on the girl for their own political agendas. God help her. An unwitting rope in a game of tug of war. I hope to warn her before she graduates from Hogwarts... Was he serious? "
Karry unrolled the two scrolls. They illustrated both of Sasporillas royal bloodlines, joining the Wizarding Royal house with the Elven Royal house, in her.
"What do you think?" Zac asked Sassy.
"I think I'm going to feint!" Sassy said.
"Get her royal majesty a chair would you love?" Karry asked ofher husband Zac who scooted a chair in under Sasporillas back side before it could hit the ground.
"To be honest I don't know that much about the rites and traditions of either royal house but I thought you'd find this exciting." Karry said.
"More overwhelmingly disconcerting than exciting I'm afraid." Sassy cringed. "I now understand so much. Melvin's mothers turn around on me after learning who my grand parents were. The people who attended my fathers funeral. It all makes a lot of sense now."
"Everything except why your parents kept it all from you?" Zac asked.
"No I get it." Sasporilla nodded. "That kind of life isn't the kind of life they wanted. It was the farthest from what they had. They wanted to be simple people and live a simple life."
"And you?" Karry asked.
"Don't really know?" Sasporilla said. "Have to think about it. Learn more about it guess to make an informed choice, but frankly I feel it would get in the way of me bring a wand maker."
"I found a bunch of stuff about Harry Potter." Karry said pulling out another journal and opening it to a page, bookmarked with a Phoenix feather.
"Harry Potter and his friends have left the Basalisk guardian dead and rescued Ginny Weasly from the Chamber of secrets. Luckily they did not search any further and the vaults containing all of the true secrets of Salazar Slytherin remain unopened. All but the one from which I took the Pensive years ago. I have sealed the Chamber of Secrets and collapsed its front entrance. Sealing it off permanently from any students who learns of it accidentally or otherwise. I have left the pit entry open but have magically disguised it so that only someone who knows of its exact location may find it again."
"Wow." Sasporilla said. "I wonder what's down there?"
"That is exactly what I said.," Karry smiled.
"And me." Zac said.
"What is this Pensive, he talks about?" Sassy asked.
"It was a bowl for watching magically stored memories. It was found in his office after they cleared it out of his things." Karry said. "I had to ask someone else on the team who was researching documents from around the time of Tom Riddle. Jasmine Lee."
"Oh my god that horrible American Slytherin girl?" Sassy gasped. "She is so rude!"
"And mean!" Zac said. "I'm honestly happy she finished her N,W,T's and graduated."
"Yes, but like us ,she's going on to the teaching collage here at Hogwarts." Karry sighed. "So she's still around."
"At least I won't run into her in the common room any more." Zac laughed.
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Katelynn Ashwolf sat in the corridor out side of the Hufflepuff common room door. She didn't want to be Hufflepuff! She knew she was a Slytherin. She debated just leaving. Running away from Hogwarts and returning home. Any other school must be better than this, if her bring here meant being a Hufflepuff!
"I can't believe cousin Lyra was a Hufflepuff." Katelynn said sniffing and wiping a tear from her eye.
"I know," a voice said from the shadows, "being a Hufflepuff is quite a dark mark on the family. No pun, intended."
"Who's there?" Katelynn asked jumping to her feat.
A taller than average Chinese girl in jade green robes stepped from the shadows. Her long black hair hung straight down to her waist. Her high set cheekbones emphasized her thin slanted eyes.
"My name is Jasmine Lee." the girl said, "you are Katelynn Ashwolf. Daughter of Xander and Holly-Hop Ashwolf. Cousin of Lyra Lee-Ashwolf on her fathers side as I am a cousin on her mothers side."
"So what does that make us?" Katelynn asked.
"Cousins by marriage." Jasmine smiled trying to instill a sense of family bond in the girl.
"What house are you?" Katelynn asked. "I'm Slytherin of course."
"Lucky you." Katelynn said folding her arms and pouting.
"What if I told you I was working on a way to help you prove your worth to the house of Salazar Slytherin." Jasmine asked. "Would you be interested."
"You bet I would!" Katelynn said excitedly. "I'd do anything to be a Slytherin."
"Good." Jasmine grinned. "I'll see about finding you some loyal companions from Slytherin. You'll need help for the tasks ahead. I will be in touch, cousin."
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, donate to J.K.Rowlings charity LUMOS and help children who need it most.
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, donate to J.K.Rowlings charity LUMOS and help children who need it most.