Return to the Chamber of Secrets
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 7
It was the better part of a week by the time Sasporilla Bucket received a reply from Mrs.Lazarus who was clearly not thrilled with receiving a howler in the middle of a charity luncheon, in front of her posh friends.
Miss Bucket;
Though I have the greatest respect for your family and their status, I feel that your relationship with and influence on my son are inappropriate, counter productive and dangerous. That is why I chose to irradiate you from his memory.
I would appreciate you no longer contacting my son or my family.
Mrs.B.Lazarus
Sasporilla was heart broken but was determined to get Melvin back. Some how, some way Sassy would discover how Mrs.Lazarous removed her sons memory of her, and how to restore them.
"That Bloody woman is impossible." Sasporilla ssid to Karry.
"I take it that is Mrs.Lazarus' response to your hower?" Karry asked holding out her hand for Sasporilla to pass the letter to her.
Karry looked the tersely worded letter over. It was pretty much the answer she had been expecting.
"You're right." Karry said. "She is impossible!"
"Have you found anything in the books about restoring memories?" Sassy asked.
"Quite a bit actually." Karry said pulling out her note book, "Most spells effect the area of the brain where short term memory resides. Very few spells can target deep rooted memories without destroying everything around them. However all of these are reversed the same way, with one of three reversal spells. I believe we're dealing with something unknown to most. Something not in the books."
"We have to find out how she did it!" Sassy insisted.
"The unfortunate truth is that I don't have as much time now to search the library stacks as I used to." Karry frowned apologetically. "Between this years work load and my helping with the Dumbledore papers."
"I understand Karry." Sasporilla said. "I'll search the library, just point me in the right direction."
"Well now that we're seventh years we have full access to the restricted section." Karry said. "Perhaps try in there to start."
"Will do." Sasporilla ssid. "I had been debating the supervised hike in the forest today but I think this is a bit more important."
"I agree." Karry said. "But a good walk can clear your head. Bring focus."
"True." Sasporilla supposed. "But I do think I'll pass on this one."
********************
Sixteen students signed up for the nature hike into the dark forest. Hagrid lead the way, with Jasmine Lee teaching student and professors assistant, taking up the rear. They stuck pretty close to the path as they hiked through the forest marveling at flora and fauna.
They caught a glimpse of centaurs who kept their distance from the students. Though some of the younger centaurs were overly curious. Hagrid was very surprised the spiders were also keeping there distance. Though he wasn't taking the students close to the spiders domain, fresh meat walking through the forest usually brought them out.
Katelynn Ashwolf, Mary Crowley and Olga Bathory stuck to the back by Ms. Lee snapping off twigs and branches, throwing poison berries at other hikers, and mocking nature in its all its glory.
"This is so BORING!" Katelynn sighed as she kicked a rock into the forest catching a squirrel by surprise sending it scurrying off.
"Hagrid." Jasmine Lee called. "Perhaps this would be a good time for the children to rest."
"Aw right!" Hagrid smiled. "Jus' up ahead there's a clearin'. Tha's where we'll take a stop."
In less than a minute the forest opened up into a huge clearing with, a circle of fallen trees surrounded a well used fire pit. The hikers wandered over to logs and had a seat. Hagrid gathered some twigs and a small log for the fire pit while Ms.Lee prepared a lovely spot of tea with small cakes that she brought from the school.
A quick wave of the wand heated the tea. Ms
Lee levitated a cup and a faerie cake to each hiker but she carefully carried a larger cup over to Hagrid.
"Here you are Hagrid." Jasmine smiled. "Please enjoy."
"Ta Jasmine." Hagrid smiled. "Yer an angel ye are."
Hagrid finished the large cup of tea, which still looked small in his giant hands, in one sip. He wasn't as fussy on Faerie cakes but didn't want to seem impolite so he popped it in his massive gob and swallowed it whole.
Katelynn Ashwolf sat on a log off to one end away from the others.
"I thought you said this was suppose to be fun and adventurous." Olga Bathory said scowling at Katelynn.
"Just be patient." Katelynn said sipping her tea never taking her eyes off Hagrid.
It wasn't long before Hagrid started to feel sick and turn a little green. Pain and nausea filled his stomach then he began to get sick, along with most of the hikers.
"Oh dear." Jasmine Lee said. "What so ever could be wrong?"
"I'm affeard we'll have ta call tha hike off." Hagrid said vomiting behind the log.
"I'll get you all back to the school." Jasmine said apparatring the sick students in pairs back to Hogwarts.
Sasporilla and Karry had been preparing to head to Hogsmead and were passing through the front gate when Ms.Lee arrived with the first group of ill students from the hike.
"What's gone wrong?" Karry asked.
"I don't know." Jasmine said frantically. "Most of the hikers became very ill after tea! Can you get madam Pomfrey? I need to gather the rest."
"I'll fetch her." Sasporilla said running off into the castle.
"I'll tend to these." Karry said. "You fetch the rest."
"Thank you." Jasmine said turning and disapparating.
Sasporilla ran though the halls of Hogwarts and crashed though the doors of the Hospital wing.
"Madam Pomfrey!" Sasporilla screamed.
"Merlins Beard child!" Madam Pomfrey said tersely. "You frightened the daylights out of me!"
"Sorry Madam but there are loads of sick students in the front court yard." Sassy said out of breath. "The hikers all got sick."
"Oh dear." Madam Pomfrey said. "I'll need professors and volunteers. As many as you can round up girl. Go quickly."
"Yes Madam Pomfrey!" Sasporilla said heading to the great hall. No matter the time of day there were always people there.
Ms.Lee apparated back to the clearing where four students remained in good health and Hagrid who got worse every minute.
"I will take Hagrid back to the school." Jasmine said winking at Katelynn. "Don't you lot move. I'll be back for you as soon as I can."
Ms.Lee grabbed Hagrids arm and disapperated.
Katelynn Ashwolf stood whispering with Mary Crowley and Olga Bathory while Poppey Rosegarden, a fourth year Hufflepuff girl sat apart from the meaner younger girls.
"Let's look around!" Katelynn insisted.
"We have to stay put." Poppey said. "Ms.Lee ordered us to stay here."
"Who cares." Mary Crowley ssid.
"She'll be a while." Katelynn said. "By the time she gets back, we'll be back!"
"Ms.Lee will never know!" Olga Bathory said. "Besides, maybe we can find what made them sick."
"Yes it can't have been the tea." Katelynn smiled. "Or we'd all be sick."
"I didn't drink the tea." Poppey Rosegarden said suspiciously. "I don't care for tea."
"Well all of us did!" Olga Bathory said drawing her wand. "Did you poison it?"
"No of course not!" Poppey insisted.
"Put your wand away Olga." Katelynn said pleasantly. "She was no where near the tea! She couldn't have tampered with it."
"Thank you Katelynn." Poppey said watching the Slytherin girl lower her wand.
"Look you do what you lot want." Katelynn said. "I'm going to look around."
There were four paths out of the clearing. Each ran in true directions, North, south, east and west. Katelynn and the girls headed west leaving Poppey Rosegarden behind. Poppey sat in the silence for a moment thinking how stubborn and foolish the young girls were, going off on their own in the dark forest. Even if they were staying on a path.
"We were told to stay here." Poppey insisted yelling after them, until she heard something move and growl in the long grass near the trees. "Wait for me!"
The girls walked about a hundred yards down the path. The map had shown three snakes braided together. She didn't know what it was but had sensed it's important. There Katelynn saw what they were looking for. There were three trees that grew together like snakes coiled around each other.
"This is interesting." Katelynn said walking over to the trees and looking up at them. The trunks thinned the higher she looked but they remained entwined. Near the top they bent almost imperceptibly south west. Katelynn looked in that direction and saw stone standing distantly between the trees.
"This way." Katelynn said.
The other girls followed closely behind as Katelynn left the path and entered the dark forest, never taking her eyes off of the stone. As they neared the trees thinned into small clearing. A monolithic ancient stone stood in the clearings center.
"This is it." Katelynn said "I can't believe we've found it!"
"Found what?" Poppey asked.
"The marker stone." Katelynn said. "It's a lost historical site."
"I've never heard of this." Poppey said. "And I've read sll about Hogwarts and it's grounds."
A large black wolf jumped trough the trees and snapped at the girls. Katelynn and her friends instinctively tightened there ranks snd pulled their wands.
"Flippendo!" Katelynn cast flipping the wolf end over end back into the trees.
Poppey stood petrified, terrified by canines of any kind.
"Poppey!" Katelynn said. "Draw your wand and get over here!"
More wolves leapt from the trees lead by the black wolf. A large grey tackled Poppey Rosegarden and snapped at the girls throat. Poppey screamed and drew her wand as they started to roll along the ground trying to gain the upper hand on one another. Suddenly they fell through the solid earth and out of site.
"Insendio!" Katelynn cast to late to hit the wolf that was attacking Poppey, and it scorched a small stump beside where the girl and the wolf who disappeared.
The wolves circled the three girls who stood back to back, wands drawn, prepared to defend. The beasts growled and gnashed there teeth as they grew closer. The coiled like springs preparing to leap!
"Canustanday Asendsllay!" Jasmine Lee cast throwing the pack of wolves far off into the distance.
"They won't trouble you anymore ladies." Jasmine said.
"Quickly", Katelynn said grabbing Jasmine by her cold hand and pulling her to the scorch mark on the ground, "a wolf pulled Poppey over here and they disappeared."
Katelynn looked down as her own feet felt as if they teetered on the edge of the ground. She lost her balance and started to fall. A thin cold hand grabbed her and pulled her back to solid ground.
"Be careful." Jasmine Lee snapped. "I've lost one of you today, I have no intention of losing another!"
"Poppey is in there, down there, where ever that is!" Katelynn said. "We have to help her!"
"It's a pit." Jasmine said. "A deep whole, very deep. She will not have survived the fall. I will return you to the school once I tell you, what to tell them."
Sasporilla Bucket and Karry Curtiss tended helped Madam Pomfrey attend to the sick in the court yard as Jasmine Lee appeared with the three girls.
"Help!" Ms.Lee shouted. "The girls were attacked by wolves and they've taken Poppey Rosegarden."
Normally Rubious Hagrid would have lead the way on a rescue of this magnitude but today he lay unconscious in the infirmary. It was up to Mr.Filch and a select group of professors to try and hunt down the wolf pack and bring back the girl in whatever condition they found her in. Ms.Lee lead them to the clearing where everyone had gotten sick and from where the wolves attacked.
They hunted for days before they found any sign of the wolves and hunted them down. There was no sign of the Poppey Rosegarden anywhere. By the end of the week they had resigned themselves to having lost a student To the dangers of the forbidden forest.
It was the better part of a week by the time Sasporilla Bucket received a reply from Mrs.Lazarus who was clearly not thrilled with receiving a howler in the middle of a charity luncheon, in front of her posh friends.
Miss Bucket;
Though I have the greatest respect for your family and their status, I feel that your relationship with and influence on my son are inappropriate, counter productive and dangerous. That is why I chose to irradiate you from his memory.
I would appreciate you no longer contacting my son or my family.
Mrs.B.Lazarus
Sasporilla was heart broken but was determined to get Melvin back. Some how, some way Sassy would discover how Mrs.Lazarous removed her sons memory of her, and how to restore them.
"That Bloody woman is impossible." Sasporilla ssid to Karry.
"I take it that is Mrs.Lazarus' response to your hower?" Karry asked holding out her hand for Sasporilla to pass the letter to her.
Karry looked the tersely worded letter over. It was pretty much the answer she had been expecting.
"You're right." Karry said. "She is impossible!"
"Have you found anything in the books about restoring memories?" Sassy asked.
"Quite a bit actually." Karry said pulling out her note book, "Most spells effect the area of the brain where short term memory resides. Very few spells can target deep rooted memories without destroying everything around them. However all of these are reversed the same way, with one of three reversal spells. I believe we're dealing with something unknown to most. Something not in the books."
"We have to find out how she did it!" Sassy insisted.
"The unfortunate truth is that I don't have as much time now to search the library stacks as I used to." Karry frowned apologetically. "Between this years work load and my helping with the Dumbledore papers."
"I understand Karry." Sasporilla said. "I'll search the library, just point me in the right direction."
"Well now that we're seventh years we have full access to the restricted section." Karry said. "Perhaps try in there to start."
"Will do." Sasporilla ssid. "I had been debating the supervised hike in the forest today but I think this is a bit more important."
"I agree." Karry said. "But a good walk can clear your head. Bring focus."
"True." Sasporilla supposed. "But I do think I'll pass on this one."
********************
Sixteen students signed up for the nature hike into the dark forest. Hagrid lead the way, with Jasmine Lee teaching student and professors assistant, taking up the rear. They stuck pretty close to the path as they hiked through the forest marveling at flora and fauna.
They caught a glimpse of centaurs who kept their distance from the students. Though some of the younger centaurs were overly curious. Hagrid was very surprised the spiders were also keeping there distance. Though he wasn't taking the students close to the spiders domain, fresh meat walking through the forest usually brought them out.
Katelynn Ashwolf, Mary Crowley and Olga Bathory stuck to the back by Ms. Lee snapping off twigs and branches, throwing poison berries at other hikers, and mocking nature in its all its glory.
"This is so BORING!" Katelynn sighed as she kicked a rock into the forest catching a squirrel by surprise sending it scurrying off.
"Hagrid." Jasmine Lee called. "Perhaps this would be a good time for the children to rest."
"Aw right!" Hagrid smiled. "Jus' up ahead there's a clearin'. Tha's where we'll take a stop."
In less than a minute the forest opened up into a huge clearing with, a circle of fallen trees surrounded a well used fire pit. The hikers wandered over to logs and had a seat. Hagrid gathered some twigs and a small log for the fire pit while Ms.Lee prepared a lovely spot of tea with small cakes that she brought from the school.
A quick wave of the wand heated the tea. Ms
Lee levitated a cup and a faerie cake to each hiker but she carefully carried a larger cup over to Hagrid.
"Here you are Hagrid." Jasmine smiled. "Please enjoy."
"Ta Jasmine." Hagrid smiled. "Yer an angel ye are."
Hagrid finished the large cup of tea, which still looked small in his giant hands, in one sip. He wasn't as fussy on Faerie cakes but didn't want to seem impolite so he popped it in his massive gob and swallowed it whole.
Katelynn Ashwolf sat on a log off to one end away from the others.
"I thought you said this was suppose to be fun and adventurous." Olga Bathory said scowling at Katelynn.
"Just be patient." Katelynn said sipping her tea never taking her eyes off Hagrid.
It wasn't long before Hagrid started to feel sick and turn a little green. Pain and nausea filled his stomach then he began to get sick, along with most of the hikers.
"Oh dear." Jasmine Lee said. "What so ever could be wrong?"
"I'm affeard we'll have ta call tha hike off." Hagrid said vomiting behind the log.
"I'll get you all back to the school." Jasmine said apparatring the sick students in pairs back to Hogwarts.
Sasporilla and Karry had been preparing to head to Hogsmead and were passing through the front gate when Ms.Lee arrived with the first group of ill students from the hike.
"What's gone wrong?" Karry asked.
"I don't know." Jasmine said frantically. "Most of the hikers became very ill after tea! Can you get madam Pomfrey? I need to gather the rest."
"I'll fetch her." Sasporilla said running off into the castle.
"I'll tend to these." Karry said. "You fetch the rest."
"Thank you." Jasmine said turning and disapparating.
Sasporilla ran though the halls of Hogwarts and crashed though the doors of the Hospital wing.
"Madam Pomfrey!" Sasporilla screamed.
"Merlins Beard child!" Madam Pomfrey said tersely. "You frightened the daylights out of me!"
"Sorry Madam but there are loads of sick students in the front court yard." Sassy said out of breath. "The hikers all got sick."
"Oh dear." Madam Pomfrey said. "I'll need professors and volunteers. As many as you can round up girl. Go quickly."
"Yes Madam Pomfrey!" Sasporilla said heading to the great hall. No matter the time of day there were always people there.
Ms.Lee apparated back to the clearing where four students remained in good health and Hagrid who got worse every minute.
"I will take Hagrid back to the school." Jasmine said winking at Katelynn. "Don't you lot move. I'll be back for you as soon as I can."
Ms.Lee grabbed Hagrids arm and disapperated.
Katelynn Ashwolf stood whispering with Mary Crowley and Olga Bathory while Poppey Rosegarden, a fourth year Hufflepuff girl sat apart from the meaner younger girls.
"Let's look around!" Katelynn insisted.
"We have to stay put." Poppey said. "Ms.Lee ordered us to stay here."
"Who cares." Mary Crowley ssid.
"She'll be a while." Katelynn said. "By the time she gets back, we'll be back!"
"Ms.Lee will never know!" Olga Bathory said. "Besides, maybe we can find what made them sick."
"Yes it can't have been the tea." Katelynn smiled. "Or we'd all be sick."
"I didn't drink the tea." Poppey Rosegarden said suspiciously. "I don't care for tea."
"Well all of us did!" Olga Bathory said drawing her wand. "Did you poison it?"
"No of course not!" Poppey insisted.
"Put your wand away Olga." Katelynn said pleasantly. "She was no where near the tea! She couldn't have tampered with it."
"Thank you Katelynn." Poppey said watching the Slytherin girl lower her wand.
"Look you do what you lot want." Katelynn said. "I'm going to look around."
There were four paths out of the clearing. Each ran in true directions, North, south, east and west. Katelynn and the girls headed west leaving Poppey Rosegarden behind. Poppey sat in the silence for a moment thinking how stubborn and foolish the young girls were, going off on their own in the dark forest. Even if they were staying on a path.
"We were told to stay here." Poppey insisted yelling after them, until she heard something move and growl in the long grass near the trees. "Wait for me!"
The girls walked about a hundred yards down the path. The map had shown three snakes braided together. She didn't know what it was but had sensed it's important. There Katelynn saw what they were looking for. There were three trees that grew together like snakes coiled around each other.
"This is interesting." Katelynn said walking over to the trees and looking up at them. The trunks thinned the higher she looked but they remained entwined. Near the top they bent almost imperceptibly south west. Katelynn looked in that direction and saw stone standing distantly between the trees.
"This way." Katelynn said.
The other girls followed closely behind as Katelynn left the path and entered the dark forest, never taking her eyes off of the stone. As they neared the trees thinned into small clearing. A monolithic ancient stone stood in the clearings center.
"This is it." Katelynn said "I can't believe we've found it!"
"Found what?" Poppey asked.
"The marker stone." Katelynn said. "It's a lost historical site."
"I've never heard of this." Poppey said. "And I've read sll about Hogwarts and it's grounds."
A large black wolf jumped trough the trees and snapped at the girls. Katelynn and her friends instinctively tightened there ranks snd pulled their wands.
"Flippendo!" Katelynn cast flipping the wolf end over end back into the trees.
Poppey stood petrified, terrified by canines of any kind.
"Poppey!" Katelynn said. "Draw your wand and get over here!"
More wolves leapt from the trees lead by the black wolf. A large grey tackled Poppey Rosegarden and snapped at the girls throat. Poppey screamed and drew her wand as they started to roll along the ground trying to gain the upper hand on one another. Suddenly they fell through the solid earth and out of site.
"Insendio!" Katelynn cast to late to hit the wolf that was attacking Poppey, and it scorched a small stump beside where the girl and the wolf who disappeared.
The wolves circled the three girls who stood back to back, wands drawn, prepared to defend. The beasts growled and gnashed there teeth as they grew closer. The coiled like springs preparing to leap!
"Canustanday Asendsllay!" Jasmine Lee cast throwing the pack of wolves far off into the distance.
"They won't trouble you anymore ladies." Jasmine said.
"Quickly", Katelynn said grabbing Jasmine by her cold hand and pulling her to the scorch mark on the ground, "a wolf pulled Poppey over here and they disappeared."
Katelynn looked down as her own feet felt as if they teetered on the edge of the ground. She lost her balance and started to fall. A thin cold hand grabbed her and pulled her back to solid ground.
"Be careful." Jasmine Lee snapped. "I've lost one of you today, I have no intention of losing another!"
"Poppey is in there, down there, where ever that is!" Katelynn said. "We have to help her!"
"It's a pit." Jasmine said. "A deep whole, very deep. She will not have survived the fall. I will return you to the school once I tell you, what to tell them."
Sasporilla Bucket and Karry Curtiss tended helped Madam Pomfrey attend to the sick in the court yard as Jasmine Lee appeared with the three girls.
"Help!" Ms.Lee shouted. "The girls were attacked by wolves and they've taken Poppey Rosegarden."
Normally Rubious Hagrid would have lead the way on a rescue of this magnitude but today he lay unconscious in the infirmary. It was up to Mr.Filch and a select group of professors to try and hunt down the wolf pack and bring back the girl in whatever condition they found her in. Ms.Lee lead them to the clearing where everyone had gotten sick and from where the wolves attacked.
They hunted for days before they found any sign of the wolves and hunted them down. There was no sign of the Poppey Rosegarden anywhere. By the end of the week they had resigned themselves to having lost a student To the dangers of the forbidden forest.
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.