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

Melanie smiled gratefully in return and took a seat on Mike's other side. She was quiet for a moment as she considered his question, recalling what she had done that summer, and shrugged. 
[color=MediumSlateBlue]"Yes, I suppose it was...I still can't get the hang of some of those Transfiguration spells but I suppose we can't all be good at everything, can we?"[/color] the witch shook her head carefully, glancing across at Mike again. She wondered if he'd gotten any more to grips with his difficulties with Potions since they'd last spoken. [color=MediumSlateBlue] "How did you get on with that Potions assignment over the summer?" [/color] of course she fully expected the answer to be something along the lines of 'it was a disaster' and that he needed her help to fix it. 

She had partnered with him a few times in some of their lessons, and somehow, it seemed the Hufflepuff boy just had a knack for ruining Potions and reading even the simplest of instructions wrong in some way. Thank heavens the cauldron had never backfired in their faces yet, though Melanie wasn't so sure if she was prepared to say that out loud for fear of jinxing it somehow.