Return to the Chamber of Secrets
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 4
ON TOUR WITH DEAD END ODDITY SHOP (PART 3) By Rita Skeeter
The fascinating thing about travelling with a group of young musicians is observing them, like an anthropologist observing chimps in the wild.
Long days of tutoring and hard work pay off in a palpable sense of excitement during and after a show. The band members retire to their tour bus and attend to the needs of a select group of fans. The youngest of the Dead End Oddity Shop members, Vinney Lazar at seventeen and three quarters, is the most popular with the female fans. On most nights one or more fans accompany the band member back to their private quarters to talk and 'hang out'. (Wink).
Sasporilla Bucket dropped the copy of the Daily Prophet on the table and started to laugh. "Vinney Lazar seventeen and three quarters. More like thirteen and three quarters!"
Sasporilla picked up a strip of bacon from her breakfast plate and nibbled as she pulled out a piece of parchment and her quill.
Dear Vinny Lazar;
I'm your biggest fan! I love your music and need you to know that I love you. The next time you play in my city I'm going to attend your show and hope to be picked to be your special lady, taken to your private quarters to chat and hang out (wink).
Honestly Melvin that Rita Skeeter is horrible making up such stories about you. I don't know what Krunk is like, though I certainly would expect that sort of behavior from Wendy but I know you're simply not that way.
I love you;
Sasporilla
"Writing to Melvin?" Karry asked sitting down next to Sassy for breakfast.
"Oh my gawd!" Sassy said in her best excited young tween girl voice. "I'm writing to Vinney Lazar. My all time favorite rock star! He's gonna read my letter and fly a winged horse to my room and take me away and marry me!"
"You, my dear friend," Karry chuckled. "Are a certified nutter!"
"Here." Sassy said pushing the article over to Karry and pointed at the line. "Read this."
Karry read it as she munched on some toast and poured herself some tea.
"What a lying cow!" Karry laughed. "Melvin is not like that! And most certainly isn't that old!"
"I know it." Sasporilla sighed. "I must admit that as much I do trust Melvin, I don't trust the girls he'll be presented with, their questionable morals or his hormones."
"Myron is there watching over him." Karry reassured her. "If anything inappropriate happens Myron would let you know."
"I know it." Sasporilla smiled. "I feel jealous and possessive and just silly."
"Yes but you see it in yourself and know your wrong." Karry smiled. "Which means your mature and intelligent enough to deal with your feelings as just feelings."
"Thanks." Sassy said having a sip of tea. "You never get jealous!"
"I don't?" Karry said. "I most certainly do! I just deal with it through trust and logic."
Katelynn Ashwolf walked down the aisle followed closely by her two new Slytherin friends, Mary Crowly and Olga Bathory. They past by all of the other students and headed to the head table. They engaged professor McGonagall in conversation. It seemed to be a discussion about something the young girls were clearly passionate about. Headmistress McGonagall stood and called for everyone's attention.
"Students!" The headmistress said. "As of this morning I have decided to reinitiate a program that Professor Dumbledore had put in place before his untimely death. From now on, at breakfast and lunch only, you may sit with friends if invited at any house table."
The students applauded. Karry waved to Zac who was already moving to join his wife at the Hufflepuff table. Katelynn was visibly excited to go sit with her friends amongst the very welcoming Slytherin students. Zac kissed Karry as he sat in beside her.
"Good morning my gorgeous woman." Zac smiled.
"Good morning my handsome man." Karry smiled back.
"God." Sasporilla said. "Get a room you two."
"Now, now." Karry said. "Don't hate us because we're in love!"
"I envy you, your closeness." Sasporilla sighed.
Potions and transfiguration were the courses of the day. Sasporilla honestly had a tough time concentrating on her work. All she saw in her minds eye was Melvin being tempted by an assembly line of beautiful women passing by him. She put three shakes of ground dragon throat polyps in the potion rather than two and stirred it the wrong way. The resulting explosion put Sasporilla in the infirmary.
Sassy awoke three days later, unable to see. Her eyes were bandaged. She could hear someone moving around her.
"Hello?" Sassy called out terrified. "Is anybody there?"
"Yes child." Madame Pomfrey said. "You're in the infirmary. Do you remember what happened?'
"I was in potions class." Sassy said. "That's all I remember."
"You brewed a an explosion that would have rivaled on of Mr.Finnigans in his day!"
"Was any one hurt?" Sasporilla asked.
"Minor scrapes and burns." Madame Pomfrey said. "You on the other hand nearly burned the eyes out of your head! What happened."
"I don't know." Sasporilla said. "I was distracted by...boy troubles that probably don't exist."
"We've all been there." Madam Pomfrey said. "If you have concerns you have to talk to the young man."
"Can only write to him for now." Sasporilla said. "He's out of the country."
"Do you trust him as much as you love him?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Yes." Sassy smiled. "I was just being dilly after the Rita Skeeter article..."
"That woman and her poison pen cause more problems!" Madame Pomfrey snapped.
"Will I be left blind, Madam Pomfrey?" Sasporilla asked.
"No." The infirmary matron said. "But it'll be a few days until your eyes are healed. They'll be between ninety and one hundred percent."
"What does that mean?" Sassy asked.
"It means, young lady that you'll be fine, but you may need glasses."
Karry and Zac visited Sasporilla in the hospital wing every day. Sassy looked forward to their visits. Even though she couldn't see them, the sounds of their voices brought her comfort.
"So I found something new in the Dumbledore papers." Karry said. "A clue to the location of..."
"Hello Hufflepuffs!" Blossom, the Hufflepuff Head girl smiled as she entered followed closely by Katelynn Ashwolf who had been chosen to carry a bouquet of get well soon flowers from Hufflepuff House.
"How are you feeling Sasporilla?" Blossom asked concerned for the well being of her house mate.
"I feel fine Blossom, thank you for asking." Sassy smiled. "Are those Daises I smell?"
"Yes." Katelynn said shoving the bouquet in Sasporillas arms. "A token from all of us in Hufflepuff hoping you get well soon. Can I freakin' go now?"
"No you may not." Blossom said. "You will stay for a pleasant momentary visit and then you may leave."
"Fine." Katelynn said sitting down hard in a chair, a grumpy look on her face.
"How did Ashwolf make the Hufflepuff cheer squad?" Karry asked.
"I wanted to make her feel more involved in Hufflepuff." Blossom said. "Show her that she's part of our family and welcome. She still doesn't feel comfortable being in Hufflepuff."
"I didn't either at first." Sasporilla said looking in the direction she thought Katelynn may be sitting in. "I had no friends, I was so socially awkward that I didn't know how to approach anyone. All my friends were house elves until your cousin arrived. She chose me as her friend whether I liked it or not. She was brusk and rude, just like you, but I loved that about her."
"Ya sure ok." Katelynn said.
"See." Blossom smiled, "if you give people a chance to accept you for who you are, you'll start to feel more at home in Hufflepuff and at Hogwarts."
By the time she'd turned Katelynn was gone.
"Cheeky little cow!" Blossom shook her head. "Thank you for trying to make her feel more one of us Sasporilla. Even in your condition we can always count on you."
"Thank you for the visit and the flowers Blossom." Sassy smiled.
"Your most welcome my Hufflepuff sister!" Blossom said waving and smiling as she left. Happy and satisfied at a job well done.
Karry watched Blossom leave. Once they were alone again, she spoke. "As I was saying. There is a map showing roughly where the secret entrance is. Apparently there's an ancient stone monolith ten paces from the entrance."
"But the entrance is magically hidden isn't yet?" Sassy asked.
"Yes." Karry said. "Dumbledore wrote that only someone who knows exactly where it is could find it, but I believe that may not be the only way to find it."
"Go on." Sasporilla said intrigued.
"I believe it's possible that others found their way in by accident and couldn't get back out. I believe their disappearances were eventually attributed to misadventure in the Dark Forest."
"If the entrance is in the dark forest the centaurs will likely know where it is." Sasporilla said excitedly.
"I was thinking the same thing." Karry smiled. "If we took the map that's on my office desk to the centaurs you know, maybe they could show you exactly where it was?"
"To what end though Karry!" Zac asked making Sassy jump.
"I forgot you there Zac!" Sassy said putting her hand over her beating heart. "You're to quiet! You scared the life out of me!"
"Sorry." Zac cringed. "But I mean even if you do find the back door to the chamber of secrets, why go in? It could be dangerous!"
"We're speaking hypothetically darling." Karry smiled. "No one would be foolish enough to go down there. God knows what is in those vaults and what traps have been set against robbers."
Katelynn Ashwolf didn't feel that way. This was what she was meant to find out. The fools just handed her the answers and the location of a map! She ran through the Hogwarts halls to the library looking for Jasmine Lee.
Katelynn sat at the table by the spiral stairs and whistled a familiar tune. The long raven haired woman in green robes rose up the steps like a snake from a basket.
"What have you found, cousin?" Jasmine smiled.
Karry and Zac were just about to leave when madam Pomfrey walked in with Headmistress MaGonagall and a man in long white robes.
"Are you ready to get the bandages off?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Are you kidding?" Sasporilla smiled. "I thought it wouldn't be until tomorrow?"
"I was in the area." The man in the white robes said. "Thought we'd see to it this afternoon. Hello miss Bucket, I'm doctor MacDonald. I'm your Occulist."
"Pleased to meet you sir." Sassy said holding out her hand groping for Karry nervously.
Karry took her friends hand and gave her some words of encouragement. "It'll be fine"
"Of course it will be ok." Dr.MacDonald smiled. "Now lets get these bandages off Now keep your eyes closed and don't open them until I say."
Dr.MacDonald unwrapped the bandages. Sassy squeezed Karrys hand excitedly. Zac put his hand on Sasporillas shoulder to add a bit of comfort. Sassy felt the last of the bandages fall away from the back of of her head.
"Knox!" Madam Pomfrey cast lowering the infirmary lights.
"All right", Dr.MacDonald said, "now open your eyes very slowly."
Sasporilla opened her eyes. She looked at the blurry shadowy figures around her. The headmistress cast Lumos Incraseo, raising the light levels in the room slowly. The dark blurry objects became light blurry objects. Dr.MacDonald j
Held his wand up to Sasporillas eyes and cast Oculus Infenday. The doctor was suddenly able to see through Sassys eyes.
"Oh dear." The oculist sighed. "I see we have the worst case scenario."
"What?" Karry asked holding back a scream.
"She will need to wear glasses from now on."
ON TOUR WITH DEAD END ODDITY SHOP (PART 3) By Rita Skeeter
The fascinating thing about travelling with a group of young musicians is observing them, like an anthropologist observing chimps in the wild.
Long days of tutoring and hard work pay off in a palpable sense of excitement during and after a show. The band members retire to their tour bus and attend to the needs of a select group of fans. The youngest of the Dead End Oddity Shop members, Vinney Lazar at seventeen and three quarters, is the most popular with the female fans. On most nights one or more fans accompany the band member back to their private quarters to talk and 'hang out'. (Wink).
Sasporilla Bucket dropped the copy of the Daily Prophet on the table and started to laugh. "Vinney Lazar seventeen and three quarters. More like thirteen and three quarters!"
Sasporilla picked up a strip of bacon from her breakfast plate and nibbled as she pulled out a piece of parchment and her quill.
Dear Vinny Lazar;
I'm your biggest fan! I love your music and need you to know that I love you. The next time you play in my city I'm going to attend your show and hope to be picked to be your special lady, taken to your private quarters to chat and hang out (wink).
Honestly Melvin that Rita Skeeter is horrible making up such stories about you. I don't know what Krunk is like, though I certainly would expect that sort of behavior from Wendy but I know you're simply not that way.
I love you;
Sasporilla
"Writing to Melvin?" Karry asked sitting down next to Sassy for breakfast.
"Oh my gawd!" Sassy said in her best excited young tween girl voice. "I'm writing to Vinney Lazar. My all time favorite rock star! He's gonna read my letter and fly a winged horse to my room and take me away and marry me!"
"You, my dear friend," Karry chuckled. "Are a certified nutter!"
"Here." Sassy said pushing the article over to Karry and pointed at the line. "Read this."
Karry read it as she munched on some toast and poured herself some tea.
"What a lying cow!" Karry laughed. "Melvin is not like that! And most certainly isn't that old!"
"I know it." Sasporilla sighed. "I must admit that as much I do trust Melvin, I don't trust the girls he'll be presented with, their questionable morals or his hormones."
"Myron is there watching over him." Karry reassured her. "If anything inappropriate happens Myron would let you know."
"I know it." Sasporilla smiled. "I feel jealous and possessive and just silly."
"Yes but you see it in yourself and know your wrong." Karry smiled. "Which means your mature and intelligent enough to deal with your feelings as just feelings."
"Thanks." Sassy said having a sip of tea. "You never get jealous!"
"I don't?" Karry said. "I most certainly do! I just deal with it through trust and logic."
Katelynn Ashwolf walked down the aisle followed closely by her two new Slytherin friends, Mary Crowly and Olga Bathory. They past by all of the other students and headed to the head table. They engaged professor McGonagall in conversation. It seemed to be a discussion about something the young girls were clearly passionate about. Headmistress McGonagall stood and called for everyone's attention.
"Students!" The headmistress said. "As of this morning I have decided to reinitiate a program that Professor Dumbledore had put in place before his untimely death. From now on, at breakfast and lunch only, you may sit with friends if invited at any house table."
The students applauded. Karry waved to Zac who was already moving to join his wife at the Hufflepuff table. Katelynn was visibly excited to go sit with her friends amongst the very welcoming Slytherin students. Zac kissed Karry as he sat in beside her.
"Good morning my gorgeous woman." Zac smiled.
"Good morning my handsome man." Karry smiled back.
"God." Sasporilla said. "Get a room you two."
"Now, now." Karry said. "Don't hate us because we're in love!"
"I envy you, your closeness." Sasporilla sighed.
Potions and transfiguration were the courses of the day. Sasporilla honestly had a tough time concentrating on her work. All she saw in her minds eye was Melvin being tempted by an assembly line of beautiful women passing by him. She put three shakes of ground dragon throat polyps in the potion rather than two and stirred it the wrong way. The resulting explosion put Sasporilla in the infirmary.
Sassy awoke three days later, unable to see. Her eyes were bandaged. She could hear someone moving around her.
"Hello?" Sassy called out terrified. "Is anybody there?"
"Yes child." Madame Pomfrey said. "You're in the infirmary. Do you remember what happened?'
"I was in potions class." Sassy said. "That's all I remember."
"You brewed a an explosion that would have rivaled on of Mr.Finnigans in his day!"
"Was any one hurt?" Sasporilla asked.
"Minor scrapes and burns." Madame Pomfrey said. "You on the other hand nearly burned the eyes out of your head! What happened."
"I don't know." Sasporilla said. "I was distracted by...boy troubles that probably don't exist."
"We've all been there." Madam Pomfrey said. "If you have concerns you have to talk to the young man."
"Can only write to him for now." Sasporilla said. "He's out of the country."
"Do you trust him as much as you love him?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Yes." Sassy smiled. "I was just being dilly after the Rita Skeeter article..."
"That woman and her poison pen cause more problems!" Madame Pomfrey snapped.
"Will I be left blind, Madam Pomfrey?" Sasporilla asked.
"No." The infirmary matron said. "But it'll be a few days until your eyes are healed. They'll be between ninety and one hundred percent."
"What does that mean?" Sassy asked.
"It means, young lady that you'll be fine, but you may need glasses."
Karry and Zac visited Sasporilla in the hospital wing every day. Sassy looked forward to their visits. Even though she couldn't see them, the sounds of their voices brought her comfort.
"So I found something new in the Dumbledore papers." Karry said. "A clue to the location of..."
"Hello Hufflepuffs!" Blossom, the Hufflepuff Head girl smiled as she entered followed closely by Katelynn Ashwolf who had been chosen to carry a bouquet of get well soon flowers from Hufflepuff House.
"How are you feeling Sasporilla?" Blossom asked concerned for the well being of her house mate.
"I feel fine Blossom, thank you for asking." Sassy smiled. "Are those Daises I smell?"
"Yes." Katelynn said shoving the bouquet in Sasporillas arms. "A token from all of us in Hufflepuff hoping you get well soon. Can I freakin' go now?"
"No you may not." Blossom said. "You will stay for a pleasant momentary visit and then you may leave."
"Fine." Katelynn said sitting down hard in a chair, a grumpy look on her face.
"How did Ashwolf make the Hufflepuff cheer squad?" Karry asked.
"I wanted to make her feel more involved in Hufflepuff." Blossom said. "Show her that she's part of our family and welcome. She still doesn't feel comfortable being in Hufflepuff."
"I didn't either at first." Sasporilla said looking in the direction she thought Katelynn may be sitting in. "I had no friends, I was so socially awkward that I didn't know how to approach anyone. All my friends were house elves until your cousin arrived. She chose me as her friend whether I liked it or not. She was brusk and rude, just like you, but I loved that about her."
"Ya sure ok." Katelynn said.
"See." Blossom smiled, "if you give people a chance to accept you for who you are, you'll start to feel more at home in Hufflepuff and at Hogwarts."
By the time she'd turned Katelynn was gone.
"Cheeky little cow!" Blossom shook her head. "Thank you for trying to make her feel more one of us Sasporilla. Even in your condition we can always count on you."
"Thank you for the visit and the flowers Blossom." Sassy smiled.
"Your most welcome my Hufflepuff sister!" Blossom said waving and smiling as she left. Happy and satisfied at a job well done.
Karry watched Blossom leave. Once they were alone again, she spoke. "As I was saying. There is a map showing roughly where the secret entrance is. Apparently there's an ancient stone monolith ten paces from the entrance."
"But the entrance is magically hidden isn't yet?" Sassy asked.
"Yes." Karry said. "Dumbledore wrote that only someone who knows exactly where it is could find it, but I believe that may not be the only way to find it."
"Go on." Sasporilla said intrigued.
"I believe it's possible that others found their way in by accident and couldn't get back out. I believe their disappearances were eventually attributed to misadventure in the Dark Forest."
"If the entrance is in the dark forest the centaurs will likely know where it is." Sasporilla said excitedly.
"I was thinking the same thing." Karry smiled. "If we took the map that's on my office desk to the centaurs you know, maybe they could show you exactly where it was?"
"To what end though Karry!" Zac asked making Sassy jump.
"I forgot you there Zac!" Sassy said putting her hand over her beating heart. "You're to quiet! You scared the life out of me!"
"Sorry." Zac cringed. "But I mean even if you do find the back door to the chamber of secrets, why go in? It could be dangerous!"
"We're speaking hypothetically darling." Karry smiled. "No one would be foolish enough to go down there. God knows what is in those vaults and what traps have been set against robbers."
Katelynn Ashwolf didn't feel that way. This was what she was meant to find out. The fools just handed her the answers and the location of a map! She ran through the Hogwarts halls to the library looking for Jasmine Lee.
Katelynn sat at the table by the spiral stairs and whistled a familiar tune. The long raven haired woman in green robes rose up the steps like a snake from a basket.
"What have you found, cousin?" Jasmine smiled.
Karry and Zac were just about to leave when madam Pomfrey walked in with Headmistress MaGonagall and a man in long white robes.
"Are you ready to get the bandages off?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Are you kidding?" Sasporilla smiled. "I thought it wouldn't be until tomorrow?"
"I was in the area." The man in the white robes said. "Thought we'd see to it this afternoon. Hello miss Bucket, I'm doctor MacDonald. I'm your Occulist."
"Pleased to meet you sir." Sassy said holding out her hand groping for Karry nervously.
Karry took her friends hand and gave her some words of encouragement. "It'll be fine"
"Of course it will be ok." Dr.MacDonald smiled. "Now lets get these bandages off Now keep your eyes closed and don't open them until I say."
Dr.MacDonald unwrapped the bandages. Sassy squeezed Karrys hand excitedly. Zac put his hand on Sasporillas shoulder to add a bit of comfort. Sassy felt the last of the bandages fall away from the back of of her head.
"Knox!" Madam Pomfrey cast lowering the infirmary lights.
"All right", Dr.MacDonald said, "now open your eyes very slowly."
Sasporilla opened her eyes. She looked at the blurry shadowy figures around her. The headmistress cast Lumos Incraseo, raising the light levels in the room slowly. The dark blurry objects became light blurry objects. Dr.MacDonald j
Held his wand up to Sasporillas eyes and cast Oculus Infenday. The doctor was suddenly able to see through Sassys eyes.
"Oh dear." The oculist sighed. "I see we have the worst case scenario."
"What?" Karry asked holding back a scream.
"She will need to wear glasses from now on."
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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, 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.