The Pure Series; Part I
Meeting Melody


"Oh, don't be so down, Mell. You're always so happy. Afraid you'll not be able to finish all your classes this year?"

"Well, yes. But, Naomi-chan, we don't know anyone in our year... or anyone, for that matter!" The girl named Melody Harps snatched the letter from the owl she called Giku.

"Mell, when will we go to Diagon Alley?" asked Melody's friend, Naomilli Semick, curiously.

"How about some time in July?"

"Okay, Mell!"

"How about a visit to Hogsmaede?" Melody requested, stroking Giku's feathery back.
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"Ow!"

"Er, sorry, Miss..Miss..er?" replied a red headed boy who had accidentally cut Melody with his new wand.

"The name's Melody LionDragon Harps, of Gryffindor," answered Melody.

"Wow, you're a Gryffindor, as well?" exclaimed the young man, obviously suprised.

"Yeah, fifth year."

"Wow, me too!"

"Kewl. So...you are?"

"Ronald Weasley. You can call me--"

"Ron. you can call him Ron, Melody," said the famous celebrity who Melody recognized as Harry Potter, by the scar.

"And you can call me Mell!" said Melody with a giggle.

"I haven't seen you in our year," proclaimed a puzzled Ron.

"Yeah, but....there's, like, a hundred new student each year."

"Yes, I suppose. I don't know too many people...." Ron shrugged.

"It all makes sense when I look into her eyes....sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulder, everyone's leanin' on me....sometimes it feels like the world's almost over..." came the song coming from a triangular device sticking out of Mell's belt.

"What's that?" asked Harry and Ron in unison.

"Like it? I invented it," Harry and Ron gasped. "Oh, it was easy! I call it the 'Muggle Eternity.' It plays muggle music anywhere, even in a restricted area full of magic in the air."

"Hey, do you have an owl?" asked Ron.

"Yes."

"....Cool! Me, too!" Ron turned his head so only Harry could see it, and turned his chin, politely gegsturing Harry to leave.

"I...I'm gonna go to get ice cream for all of us," Harry stumbled over to the sweets place.

"So...are you doing anything next Saturday?"

"No, not really. Why?" Mell actually appeared to not know, though it was a bit obvious.

"Well...would you like to meet me here...or something then...um... well..."

"Are you asking me on a date?"

"NO!" This time Mell was actually suprised.

"I....I-I just wanted to introduce you to Fred and George, my brothers," Ron did a "so-what?" shrug. "They're twins, you'd get along with them really well."

"Erm, oki..."
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Mell treated Harry and Ron out to all kinds of wonderful things, and they talked.

"I'll send you a good owl for your birthday, Harry!" promised Mell, chuckling a bit.

"And I'll send you all owls, you know!" everyone promised in unison, and they all laughed.
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The Saturday passed, and Ron, Fred, and George met and talked, ate, bought presents for Harry, and then, last, purchased tricks at the joke shop.

Eventually, they met again, and did basically the same thing, but in Diagon Alley.

Things went by far to fast, even Harry's birthday seemed to pass in a second.
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The morning was icy and crisp on the day school started.

"Hey, Mell, who's that?" asked Fred in a curiously mischeivous tone.

"'Ey, Fred. 'Er name's Naomilli Semick. You can call her Naomi," Mell proclaimed with a cough.

"Hi, Naomi!" George waved, swinging Matilda Gills.

"Hello, I'm Matilda Gills. But you can call me Tillie, please," she said, hopping aboard the Hogwart's Express.

Then, one by one, everyone got on and crowded up in one car.

"Where's Hermione and Ron?" asked George. "And Harry?"

Suddenly, just if on cue, Harry and Ron came into the box car.

"Bah, Hermione's gone to school early and without us, about two weeks early!" scoffed Harry.