[color=MediumSlateBlue][h1] Melanie Stryder[/h1] 

"I don't know, wasn't it Wingardium something?"[/color] frowned Melanie as she tried to remember the incantation herself. She turned towards Oliver as the older boy offered to turn them into birds and quickly shook her head in protest. [color=MediumSlateBlue] "Oh no no, no thank you."[/color] she mumbled. [color=MediumSlateBlue] "As much as I would like to fly, I'm not very good at it, I can't even steer a broom."[/color]

It was only partially true of course, Melanie had never been talented at flying, however her chief concern wasn't so much the flying itself, but the snake that was curled up in the pocket of her robes. And she couldn't imagine the trouble she would get in if someone found out, and even worse, told one of the Professors, that the reptile wasn't kept in an enclosure in the dormitory the whole time, as pets were supposed to be.