Rating:
PG
House:
The Dark Arts
Characters:
Original Female Witch
Genres:
Mystery Original Characters
Era:
The Harry Potter at Hogwarts Years
Spoilers:
Philosopher's Stone Quidditch Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Stats:
Published: 10/25/2005
Updated: 07/11/2008
Words: 106,471
Chapters: 28
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Briallen Bevin and the Snatcher's Cave

pcharmed86

Story Summary:
Book 1: Briallen Bevin has just found out she's a witch. But the excitement is marred by an unusually cruel flying instructor, a sadistic janitor, temperamental friends and seemingly clingy enemies, not to mention the mysterious disappearances of several students from the school. Though she's told to let it be by her Grandfather, Briallen can't shake the feeling that all of this has something to do with that old cave in the north wood... (to see maps of Bergamot and The Village,

Briallen discovers something she has always wished to be true.

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Briallen's father Will confronts his own father about Briallen's future.

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Cal Bevin introduces his granddaughter to the great big wizarding world. For the first time, Briallen meets other children like her.

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Cal and Briallen run into some of Cal's old friends from Britain.

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Briallen's first day at Bergamot doesn't go exactly as she planned...

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Briallen and her new friends have the first class of the semester at Bergamot - Flying. Miss Winsome doesn't take to Briallen as well as the other teachers, however...

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Briallen has an accident, is given detention, and is sent to the school nurse where her grandfather then lectures her on her disappointing behavior. Can her day get any worse?

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Briallen serves her first detention... and it just happens to be with the one kid she despises most: Lucan Stone.

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Lucan and Briallen saw strange near in the North Wood during the detention and now a student has gone missing. Is there a connection?

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Briallen learns more about the North Wood and the strange wall surrounding it. Cal Bevin does his best to dissuade her from continuing her investigation, insisting there is nothing strange out in the woods.

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Marisol, Toby, and Briallen try to find things to do to keep their minds off of their missing classmate, and decide to check out the Quodpot try-outs led by sadistic Captain Conall Lonigan.

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Briallen and her friends eventually forget about the strange things going on at Bergamot and before they know it, it's Briallen's birthday. Finally, Briallen feels she has the life she's always wanted.

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Things had been going so well, until Briallen's Flying instructor finally snapped... And everything else began to fall apart as well.

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Briallen, Marisol, and Toby, sick of the way that Dante Garcia and his friends have been treating them, decide to take revenge on the bully once and for all.

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Briallen experiences her very first magical Halloween, though there turns out to be more tricks than treats in store for her.

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Briallen awakens from her coma to find she's missed much... and that she wasn't the only one who had some bad luck on Halloween.

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Finally Briallen's very first semester at Bergamot is over. Hoping for a calm winter break, she says good-bye to her best friends and goes off to her grandfather's house for the very first time.

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Hayden Van Vlerah takes a strong liking to Briallen during her stay in The Village.

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The students have returned to Bergamot for their spring semester but the excitement of school starting can't even compare to the excitement surrounding Noah Pierce.

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A brief, yet revealing, look at two days in the life of Briallen's best friend, Marisol Escudero, and how she affects those around her.

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Briallen and her friends try to adjust to the new rules and restrictions put upon them by the lockdown of Bergamot.

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With a lockdown in place, nerves snap and the kids do all they can to keep themselves entertained until they can move freely about the school again.

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Finally free to do as they please, Briallen, Marisol, and Toby restart their investigation on the missing kids.

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The trio finally find their way into the north wood, but also find unexpected consequences.

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Lucan approaches Briallen with an offer she can't refuse, and together they make plans to rescue the kidnapped kids.

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Before Lucan, Briallen, Marisol, and Toby can return the north wood, they need to finish their finals. With exams out of the way, they can finally concentrate entirely on finding the kidnapped students.

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Briallen and her friends meet finally the snatcher in the north wood's cave.

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Briallen and her friends have found the missing kids and things, for the most part, have returned to normal.

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