THE LONELY GATE HOUSE
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 12
Headmaster O'Carrol met the Aurors at the gate house just before dawn. Many protection and disguise spells had been cast to mask any activity from the eyes of Muggles that they knew were watching.
"Welcome t' Droorlily." The headmaster said, "I'm sorry it has t' be under these circumstances."
"We'd best take this meeting inside," Nick said, "before we're seen."
The aurers met with the schools small staff inside the headmasters office. Each were questioned under the influence of Veritaserum, the wizarding worlds strongest truth drug. None of them was guilty of the attack, that was abundantly clear and their recollection of the events of the night the muggle fisherman sounded the alarm were similar.
"I must admit the way your people dealt with the muggle fisherman was damn sloppy Headmaster!" Nick said. "But that damage is done and there is no turning back now."
"I understand that aurer Owlmore but what can we do t'fix this?" The headmaster asked.
"We'll need to use a powerful memory charm to wipe everyone's memory of the events and we'll need to replace those memories with new ones to explain the deaths. Bus crash or something." Lyra said. "But first we need to find the killer. If we accidentally obliviate them, we'll never know who did this or why?"
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Sasporilla yawned as she sat at the breakfast table across from Deckland Casey.
"Murphy keepin' ya up with her drummin' Sasporilla?" Deckland laughed.
"Yes and no." Sasporilla yawned. "I'm just as bad because I'm other noisey one on guitar."
"Oh jaysus yer both in my girls bad books." Deckland laughed.
"Yes I assume I've not furthered my goal to make more friends for myself." Sassy laughed.
"That's alright you've got a friend in me Sasporilla." Deckland said, his eyes widening at the wild looking woman with the flame red hair that leapt across the room and landed on the bench next to Sassy.
"Shift yer large arse wide load!" Lyra laughed scootching Sasporilla over.
"Wide load?" Sasporilla laughed. "I thought you were trying to park a Mini Cooper beside me!"
"How ya doing cup cake?" Lyra asked Sassy messing up her hair roughly.
"I'm great!" Sassy said. "And not that I'm not absolutely thrilled to see you BUT... and in your case a gargantuan butt, what are you doing here?"
"Working a case." Lyra said. "With Nick."
"Is Uncle Nick here?" Sassy asked looking around.
"He's in one of the class rooms setting up." Lyra said. "We need to see all of you sixth years for questioning."
"Questioning." Sasporilla whispered concerned. "What happened?"
"Can't discuss it." Lyra said. "This is an official investigation kiddo."
The sixth years were gathered and taken to the Droorlily Charms room. The students were brought in one at a time in Alphabetical order. Sasporilla Bucket was first. Sitting inside was the headmaster, the schools Nurse Matron O'Toole, Nick Owlmore and Lyra Lee-Ashwolf. Sassy walked in and told by Nick to place her wand on the table and sit in the lonely seat on the other side of the table from everyone else. Sasporilla did as she was told.
"May I ask what all of this is about now?" Sasporilla asked.
"The Aurors will ask da questions Miss Bucket." Headmaster O'Carrol said nodding at the nurse.
Matron O'Toole walked around the table and over to Sasporillas chair. The nurse wrapped leather straps around Sassys forearms, holding her firmly in the chair. The nurse drew a small needle from a tray on the table and rubbed a bit of alcohol on Sasporillas arm.
"Just a little stick." Matron O'Toole's smile reflected her companion and reluctance in this procedure.
Nick could see that Sasporilla was complying but her back was getting up. He had to get to the meat of this fast.
"You've been injected with Veritaserum." Nick said. "I will ask you series of questions and you will answer them honestly."
"If you've given me Veritaserum then I have no other choice but to answer honestly." Sasporilla said. "Let me make it easy for you Uncle, yes I'm still a virgin, yes I like boys and not girls in that way, and I have been kissed on more than one occasion by a few different boys."
"You go girl." Lyra smiled.
"Lyra!" Nick snapped. "Are you Sasporilla Bucket?"
"Yes of course!" Sasporilla said. "Who else would I be?"
"Did you go into Galway on January 29th?" Nick asked.
"Yes." Sasporilla answered a bit dreamily as the Veritaserum grabbed full hold. "I went with all the sixth years to the Old Rùn Market."
"What time did you return?" Nick asked.
"After nine pm some time." Sasporilla said. "Quarter after nine maybe nine thirty?"
"Did you buy me anything in the market?" Lyra asked.
"Lyar!" Nick snapped again.
"No." Sasporilla said. "I saw something nice for you but I didn't bring enough money. I figured I'd have another chance to go back again."
"How did you travel back to Droorlily?" Nick asked.
"We aparated." Sasporilla said. "Pop! Zoom! Pop!"
"Did you see a muggle watching you when you returned to the gate house?" Nick asked.
"No." Sassy said.
"Were you the last one through the gate?" Nick asked.
"Nope." Sassy said. "Last one through was Michael."
"Michael who?" Nick asked.
"Michael Kelly." Sasporilla said. "I followed Wendy and Michael followed me. I think he walks behind me because he likes to look at my butt."
Lyra burst into laughter.
"Were you aware the muggle followed you in through the gate?" Nicked asked.
"Not at the time." Sasporilla said. "But the Headmaster chewed us out for it the next day."
"I see." Nick said. "Where were you last night?"
"In my form room with Wendy Murphy." Sasporilla said.
"Can anyone confirm this?" Nick asked.
"Every girl in the dorm!" Sassy laughed. "They complained to Moirah Dingle, the head girl, about the noise from our room. We were playing music."
"We will look into it." Nick said. "That will be all."
As Matron O'Toole stepped forward to release her Sasporilla snapped her fingers, disappeared and reappeared to the side of the table. Sassy held out her arm and with a snap of her fingers the Veritaserum leaked back out of the small hole in her arm latticed with a bit of her blood.
"Now that that's over I have something to say for the record." Sasporilla said, "If anyone wants the truth from me, they only need ask! I do not appreciate having Veritaserum used on me! I let you have your fun and do what you had to do, but you really ticked me off!"
"Sasporilla." Lyra said standing to calm her friend. "People are dead. Muggles and magicals alike!"
Sasporilla stood there silent for a moment. "What happened."
"Looks like a new dark wizard attacked a community meeting. " Lyra frowned. "A meeting about witches on this Island."
The questioning of the other seven went just as it had Sasporilla. The children were all innocent of any knowledge of the muggle that followed them that night or the attacks in the village.
Lyra and Nick stopped in on Sassys dorm before they left.
"Sorry about all that kiddo." Nick said. "Just doing my job."
"Doesn't mean I have to like it!" Sasporilla snapped.
"Do you forgive me?" Nick asked.
"Of course I bloody forgive you!" Sasporilla said hugging her uncle. "But I still don't like it or approve of it!"
"As long as you forgive me." Nick said hugging is god daughter tightly. "When I heard about the troubles and the attack I worried you might get hurt."
"Ya no offence squirt but trouble seems to follow you like stink on a skunk!" Lyra laughed.
"I've noticed." Sassy said. "Some one up there seems to have it in for me."
"You've only been here two months." Nick laughed. "and you're already the number one interogatee in a murder investigation."
Wendelia Murphy walked in a little shaken up. She gave Sasporilla a half smile and flopped down into her bed falling off fast asleep.
"Is Wendy ok?" Sasporilla asked.
"The Veritaserum effects people poorly some times. She had a reaction, but she'll be ok." Nick smiled. "Now, all things considered I think you should accept an offer the Headmaster has made. He's offering to let you go back to Hogwarts for your safety."
"What about the rest of the students?" Sasporilla asked.
"They're stuck here until something can be arranged." Lyra frowned.
"Then I'm staying too!" Sassy insisted. "I don't go looking for trouble but I will not run from it, if it means leaving people behind!"
"That's my girl." Nick smiled. "I had to offer as I don't want you hurt, but your as tough as your dad and strong as your mum."
"Thank you." Sasporilla said. "Now tell me what we can do to help with this mess."
Headmaster O'Carrol met the Aurors at the gate house just before dawn. Many protection and disguise spells had been cast to mask any activity from the eyes of Muggles that they knew were watching.
"Welcome t' Droorlily." The headmaster said, "I'm sorry it has t' be under these circumstances."
"We'd best take this meeting inside," Nick said, "before we're seen."
The aurers met with the schools small staff inside the headmasters office. Each were questioned under the influence of Veritaserum, the wizarding worlds strongest truth drug. None of them was guilty of the attack, that was abundantly clear and their recollection of the events of the night the muggle fisherman sounded the alarm were similar.
"I must admit the way your people dealt with the muggle fisherman was damn sloppy Headmaster!" Nick said. "But that damage is done and there is no turning back now."
"I understand that aurer Owlmore but what can we do t'fix this?" The headmaster asked.
"We'll need to use a powerful memory charm to wipe everyone's memory of the events and we'll need to replace those memories with new ones to explain the deaths. Bus crash or something." Lyra said. "But first we need to find the killer. If we accidentally obliviate them, we'll never know who did this or why?"
**************
Sasporilla yawned as she sat at the breakfast table across from Deckland Casey.
"Murphy keepin' ya up with her drummin' Sasporilla?" Deckland laughed.
"Yes and no." Sasporilla yawned. "I'm just as bad because I'm other noisey one on guitar."
"Oh jaysus yer both in my girls bad books." Deckland laughed.
"Yes I assume I've not furthered my goal to make more friends for myself." Sassy laughed.
"That's alright you've got a friend in me Sasporilla." Deckland said, his eyes widening at the wild looking woman with the flame red hair that leapt across the room and landed on the bench next to Sassy.
"Shift yer large arse wide load!" Lyra laughed scootching Sasporilla over.
"Wide load?" Sasporilla laughed. "I thought you were trying to park a Mini Cooper beside me!"
"How ya doing cup cake?" Lyra asked Sassy messing up her hair roughly.
"I'm great!" Sassy said. "And not that I'm not absolutely thrilled to see you BUT... and in your case a gargantuan butt, what are you doing here?"
"Working a case." Lyra said. "With Nick."
"Is Uncle Nick here?" Sassy asked looking around.
"He's in one of the class rooms setting up." Lyra said. "We need to see all of you sixth years for questioning."
"Questioning." Sasporilla whispered concerned. "What happened?"
"Can't discuss it." Lyra said. "This is an official investigation kiddo."
The sixth years were gathered and taken to the Droorlily Charms room. The students were brought in one at a time in Alphabetical order. Sasporilla Bucket was first. Sitting inside was the headmaster, the schools Nurse Matron O'Toole, Nick Owlmore and Lyra Lee-Ashwolf. Sassy walked in and told by Nick to place her wand on the table and sit in the lonely seat on the other side of the table from everyone else. Sasporilla did as she was told.
"May I ask what all of this is about now?" Sasporilla asked.
"The Aurors will ask da questions Miss Bucket." Headmaster O'Carrol said nodding at the nurse.
Matron O'Toole walked around the table and over to Sasporillas chair. The nurse wrapped leather straps around Sassys forearms, holding her firmly in the chair. The nurse drew a small needle from a tray on the table and rubbed a bit of alcohol on Sasporillas arm.
"Just a little stick." Matron O'Toole's smile reflected her companion and reluctance in this procedure.
Nick could see that Sasporilla was complying but her back was getting up. He had to get to the meat of this fast.
"You've been injected with Veritaserum." Nick said. "I will ask you series of questions and you will answer them honestly."
"If you've given me Veritaserum then I have no other choice but to answer honestly." Sasporilla said. "Let me make it easy for you Uncle, yes I'm still a virgin, yes I like boys and not girls in that way, and I have been kissed on more than one occasion by a few different boys."
"You go girl." Lyra smiled.
"Lyra!" Nick snapped. "Are you Sasporilla Bucket?"
"Yes of course!" Sasporilla said. "Who else would I be?"
"Did you go into Galway on January 29th?" Nick asked.
"Yes." Sasporilla answered a bit dreamily as the Veritaserum grabbed full hold. "I went with all the sixth years to the Old Rùn Market."
"What time did you return?" Nick asked.
"After nine pm some time." Sasporilla said. "Quarter after nine maybe nine thirty?"
"Did you buy me anything in the market?" Lyra asked.
"Lyar!" Nick snapped again.
"No." Sasporilla said. "I saw something nice for you but I didn't bring enough money. I figured I'd have another chance to go back again."
"How did you travel back to Droorlily?" Nick asked.
"We aparated." Sasporilla said. "Pop! Zoom! Pop!"
"Did you see a muggle watching you when you returned to the gate house?" Nick asked.
"No." Sassy said.
"Were you the last one through the gate?" Nick asked.
"Nope." Sassy said. "Last one through was Michael."
"Michael who?" Nick asked.
"Michael Kelly." Sasporilla said. "I followed Wendy and Michael followed me. I think he walks behind me because he likes to look at my butt."
Lyra burst into laughter.
"Were you aware the muggle followed you in through the gate?" Nicked asked.
"Not at the time." Sasporilla said. "But the Headmaster chewed us out for it the next day."
"I see." Nick said. "Where were you last night?"
"In my form room with Wendy Murphy." Sasporilla said.
"Can anyone confirm this?" Nick asked.
"Every girl in the dorm!" Sassy laughed. "They complained to Moirah Dingle, the head girl, about the noise from our room. We were playing music."
"We will look into it." Nick said. "That will be all."
As Matron O'Toole stepped forward to release her Sasporilla snapped her fingers, disappeared and reappeared to the side of the table. Sassy held out her arm and with a snap of her fingers the Veritaserum leaked back out of the small hole in her arm latticed with a bit of her blood.
"Now that that's over I have something to say for the record." Sasporilla said, "If anyone wants the truth from me, they only need ask! I do not appreciate having Veritaserum used on me! I let you have your fun and do what you had to do, but you really ticked me off!"
"Sasporilla." Lyra said standing to calm her friend. "People are dead. Muggles and magicals alike!"
Sasporilla stood there silent for a moment. "What happened."
"Looks like a new dark wizard attacked a community meeting. " Lyra frowned. "A meeting about witches on this Island."
The questioning of the other seven went just as it had Sasporilla. The children were all innocent of any knowledge of the muggle that followed them that night or the attacks in the village.
Lyra and Nick stopped in on Sassys dorm before they left.
"Sorry about all that kiddo." Nick said. "Just doing my job."
"Doesn't mean I have to like it!" Sasporilla snapped.
"Do you forgive me?" Nick asked.
"Of course I bloody forgive you!" Sasporilla said hugging her uncle. "But I still don't like it or approve of it!"
"As long as you forgive me." Nick said hugging is god daughter tightly. "When I heard about the troubles and the attack I worried you might get hurt."
"Ya no offence squirt but trouble seems to follow you like stink on a skunk!" Lyra laughed.
"I've noticed." Sassy said. "Some one up there seems to have it in for me."
"You've only been here two months." Nick laughed. "and you're already the number one interogatee in a murder investigation."
Wendelia Murphy walked in a little shaken up. She gave Sasporilla a half smile and flopped down into her bed falling off fast asleep.
"Is Wendy ok?" Sasporilla asked.
"The Veritaserum effects people poorly some times. She had a reaction, but she'll be ok." Nick smiled. "Now, all things considered I think you should accept an offer the Headmaster has made. He's offering to let you go back to Hogwarts for your safety."
"What about the rest of the students?" Sasporilla asked.
"They're stuck here until something can be arranged." Lyra frowned.
"Then I'm staying too!" Sassy insisted. "I don't go looking for trouble but I will not run from it, if it means leaving people behind!"
"That's my girl." Nick smiled. "I had to offer as I don't want you hurt, but your as tough as your dad and strong as your mum."
"Thank you." Sasporilla said. "Now tell me what we can do to help with this mess."
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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.