Chapter 18: Dancing in the Rain

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Tuesday came and went and it was soon Wednesday. The day the Gryffindor 6th years had DADA. The class was working on Patronus'. So far only Harry and Hermione were able to conjure up a real one. Ron had managed to create a small silvery vapor. Surprisingly Neville was able to also. This took Mary and Rose by surprise until Harry told them that he had taught, well had tried to teach them last year.

After Saturday Harry had forgiven Mary and they were both acting as if nothing had ever happened. In the middle of class after taking a few notes Mary got kind of bored. She took her parchment and rolled it up into a microphone.

"WARNING!" She screamed into it. "I AM EXTREMEMLY BORED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL! YOU MAY ALL RUN AROUND SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS! Thank you!" After saying this Ron high-fived her while Hermione gave her a look of disagreement.

"Thank you, Miss Black." Professor Lupin said. Mary smiled and shrugged unrolling the parchment and placing it on her desk.

"It is only fair to warn my classmates. I can act quite odd when I am bored." Mary said.

A few minutes later the class was aloud to use their wands.

"Expecto Patronum!" The whole class yelled. Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Seamus were able to create one. Mary laughed out loud when she say a silvery monkey appear out of Seamus' wand. Her sudden happiness was enough to create a silver vapor. Rose seemed to be having a bit of difficulty. Harry seeing this walked over and whispered something in Rose's ear. Rose laughed and tried again. She created a vapor too.

The bell rang and Professor Lupin dismissed the class.

"What was that about?" Hermione asked Mary.

"Huh?" Mary asked.

"Don't act like you don't know. Why did you yell out that you were bored?" Hermione asked.

"Uh, because I was. Come on Herm I was just having a little fun. And you have got to admit taking notes is the most boring thing ever invented."

"No staring at a clock for hours is." Harry pointed out.

"What the heck?" Rose asked. Harry shrugged.

"Does anyone like playing on trees?" Mary asked randomly. Her friends gave her a weird look. "I warned you all that I was bored." She pointed out.


Wednesday was soon gone and Thursday afternoon was soon here. All the Gryffindor 6th years except Hermione (who was still taking a million classes) had Thursday afternoons off. It was raining and Mary was staring out the window. After about five minutes of absolute silence Mary got up and went to the girl's dormitory. She stopped by her bed and knelt beside her trunk pulling out an umbrella.

She came back down and left the common room. Harry and Rose followed her and Harry grabbed her wrist.

"Where are you going?" Harry and Rose asked in unison. Harry had let go of Mary's arm.

"Outside where does it look like I'm going?" Mary answered and laughed slightly. "You guys coming?"

"I will NEVER understand you Mary." Harry muttered.

"Thanks." Mary answered. "But that doesn't answer my question, you coming or not?" Harry and Rose shrugged. "Where's Ron?" Mary asked.

"He went up to the boy's dormitory to finish up some work," Harry replied.

"Let's go." Mary said and pulled on both Rose's and Harry's wrists. They followed her. Mary saw Rose mouth, 'She's crazy.' And Harry nodded in agreement. "I'm not crazy. I am completely insane. And so are you guys for following me." Mary joked.

Once outside Mary handed Rose and Harry the umbrella. Rose blushed when she had to move closer to Harry to fit under the umbrella. Mary did a few cartwheels and twirled in the gently falling rain.

Mary closed her eyes and imagined what a truly carefree life was like, a life where she didn't have to be afraid of the dark, a life where she didn't have to be afraid of killing her best friends on accident. Rose's voice broke Mary's thoughts.

"What are you doing?"

"Dancing in the rain what does it look like I'm doing?" Mary snapped.

Water droplets had settled in Mary's hair as her hair started to frizz like mad. She didn't care what her friends thought. The rain was truly magical and quite fun to dance in.

Rose and Harry shrugged. Putting the umbrella down they ran over to where Mary stood and danced. Rose turned into a puppy and splashed in a puddle getting Harry even more wet then before.

"HEY!" Harry yelled and tapped Rose's nose. Rose whined then turned back into her human form holding her nose.

"That hurt." She muttered. Mary laughed and then realized something. It wasn't raining anymore. The rain had slowly stopped and the clouds were moving away. A gentle breeze blew past making Mary's and Rose's hair fly up a bit but because of the weight of the water it didn't fly that high.

Mary muttered a spell that dried off anything and soon it looked as if they had never been in the rain. Mary took her umbrella and the three walked back up to the common room.


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