Singin' in the Hail! ((Timothy))

[Melody Bang-Bala G6]

Spring was in the air. It was chilly today, but the sun was beating down cheerily nonetheless, and there was a bit of a breeze in the air. A spring breeze. Melody could feel it. You could just feel spring was coming, smell it. All around there were subtle hints. Birds she hadn't seen around for a while... crocuses, sunshine. Rain instead of snow. Actually, it wasn't raining right now. It was sunny, and Melody had gone outside to celebrate the coming of spring after her Potions homework by frolicking a little in the muddy grass. She had an old pair of trainers on, some old black jeans, a red T-shirt and then her school cloak on top in some attempt to look as though she was wearing proper school uniform. It was only the weekend now, so she thought this was all right; though she'd never bothered to read the rules properly. Hither and thither she went, stopping as she came across a blackbird and freezing so she could watch it, catching the eye of a squirrel and both of them staying still, wondering, until at last she looked away and the squirrel bounded off. Were these magical creatures? They looked Muggle but perhaps they were magical... most things at Hogwarts were. Apart from Potions. That was just an hour of drudgery per lesson.

Music was magical! Melody hummed part of a classical wizard symphony to herself. She'd been getting to know the music of the wizarding world more recently; it had been taking up a lot of her time, had music, and she'd expanded into the music of wizards too. She did want to be a musician when she grew up, after all, and that was a musician in the wizarding world. Not the Muggle world. Right now she was humming something she was learning the flute part to. And something hard had just hit her on the shoulder. Melody looked up and saw the sky that had been so sunny not ten minutes ago had now gone rather dark and forboding. And those things falling out of the sky were hailstones. Anytime now a deluge would begin and the grounds would be whitened with little balls of ice. And it would hurt. Hailstones weren't actually particularly nice. 'Run!' she thought. It was rather a long way across the grounds.

And here they came. Ouch. Hailstorms weren't particularly pleasant things. Each hailstone hurt and a whole lot of them was not a nice thing to be under. She could actually do with some protection here. Melody pulled out her wand and cast a basic spell that repelled things. Hailstones spewed off the shield so that she was surrounded by bouncing hailstones, making her look extremely odd. But still happy. Melody's bunches bobbed beside her and she ran and bounced herself in imitation of the hailstones. Only a few were able to get through her shield.
"Ah'm singin' in t'hail
Just singin' in t'hail
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again.
I'm laughing at clouds.
So dark, up above,
The sun's in me 'eart
And Ah'm ready fer love." she sang, bursting into melody as she dodged her way across the slippy balls of ice, the tune ringing out across the grounds and mixing in with the sound of the hailstones pounding the Grounds oddly.
"Let t'stormy clouds chase
Everyone from t'place
Come on with the hail
Ah've a smile on my face
Ah'll skid down t'lane
Wit' a happy refrain
And singin'
Jus' singin' in the hail... ee whoa!" she exclaimed as she finally skidded completely out of control. Luckily the hailstorm was slowing considerably now so though her shield faltered rather as she fought to retain her balance it didn't matter too much and she soon regained it, the hailstones still falling from the open heavens bouncing off at odd angles to give her a sort of icy halo. And there was someone else outside. She was quite near the castle now, she realised.
"Eee... it's a tad skiddy out 'ere today," she informed whoever it was. "Though if tha've a liking fer this sort o' thing it's actually quite fun... providin' t'hail stones don't get thoo too 'ard. Comin'?"

((Words to t'song adapted from Gene Kelly's 'Singing In The Rain' o' course. )

[timothy]

It was a sunny morning when Timothy left the Great hall picking up a quick snack and eating it on his way out and checking if this owl Atla had been waiting to give any letters to him, which he hadn’t, So he decided to walk around a bit. Walking around the halls with both hands in his pockets he looked out the windows and the nice sunny day had been replaced with dark clouds. So he turned around and headed for the castle exit he just liked the way the breeze was when there were dark clouds. After a few minutes he made it to the exit but the clouds looking even darker then when saw them through the window. But despite his better judgment he still walked outside.

He walked outside slowly and after being outside a few seconds he started hearing things hit the floor. He looked around but still didn't see anything. "Ok this is odd." He said not getting it at first till a hail ball about the size of a golf ball hit his head. "Ouch!" He said rubbing his head and seeing the hail hit the floor. "I didn't think it was going to hail." He said talking to himself. He looked around for cover and found some under a tree just outside the castle. He waited there for the hail to calm down just a little. When it seemed to have slowed down he walked from under the tree and it seemed to be clearing up.

He looked out the other way from the castle and saw someone running or at lest it looked like someone. After a few second and hail stones later he could tell it was a girl and she had some barrier going to protect herself from the hail. "O great some wizard you are... you could use magic to protect yourself but no I run around looking for a darn tree." He said to himself laughing. Pretty soon the student was real close and he could at lest tell it was a girl and then he could hear her talking to him he guessed after a quick look around he was the only one out there. He could hear the voice and already knew who she was. He had heard her voice when he was in the common room sometimes.

He waited till she was in range to hear him he really didn't feel like yelling a conversion to a person "Well if the hail did head my head so much I would be fine." He said laughing. "But I see your getting thro the weather just fine." He said smiling.

[Melody Bang-Bala G6]

Melody smiled cheerily at the boy as he responded, feeling pleased that she'd met with a friendly reply. Generally she tried to stay away from tension and didn't have too many scrapes with Slytherins or suchlike... why would anyone want to target her anyway? She was just Melody. She supposed in a way you couldn't blame the Slytherins for being grumpy. They did have to spend their time in the dingy dungeons, Snapus' realm. That couldn't be much fun. Melody made her way over to this boy - whoever he was - more cautiously than she had made the majority of her journey across the grounds. Generally when in company she was just a little more subdued as far as bouncing was concerned. It couldn't be very pleasant to have somebody bobbing up and down in your immediate view after all.

"Oh aye, Ah'm copin', Ah'm copin'." she confirmed. "Tha've to do t'best with' what tha've got, really, eh? An' today we've 'ail... well, it weren't when Ah came out 'ere, mind, but it certainly is now! No disputin' that, eh? Well, Ah don't mind tellin' thoo hail is not me favourite, but it's what we've got, so we'll 'ave to make do. Less friction'n ball bearings, Ah'm sure. But everything 'as its use, eh? Even Potions. So we can appreciate t'time we aren't obliged to spend in t'bowels of t'earth better. Oh aye. Hail in't something to be sneezed at though, mind; it don't 'alf 'urt, Ah can tell thoo that fer sure." Melody smiled broadly in her best friendly manner, not one used to staying quiet when she'd things on her mind, and extended her hand to the other student. "Ah see tha're a Gryffindor too," she observed. She was fairly sure she'd seen him around the Gryffindor Common Room, though she didn't have a clue what his name might be.
"Melody Bang-Bala," she introduced herself with more pomp and ceremony than you'd normally expect of her. "Yer resident secon' year."

[timothy]

Standing there he watched as the girl got close talking as he walked closer to him. He could see a few hail stones falling in the background but it now seemed to be stopping at lest for now but he hopped it would stop for good. As soon as she was done she extended her hand and said her name was Melody. He toke he hand and shook it still smiling. "I'm Timothy Mays, Third year and nice to meet you." He said still smiling. He waited a second to say something again. "Well I know potions can be useful but I wish it wasn't so hard or boring." He said laughing some people might not find potions boring but he would rather be in charms calls or Defense against the dark arts or maybe anything else.

He looked up at the sky and another hail stone, this one even smaller then a golf ball just missed him. He just laughed glad that it missed his head. "Yes, hail sure can hurt." He said still smiling, remembering the first stone that hit his head hard. "When I got out here it wasn't hailing either but pretty soon it started." Timothy said looking around and seeing no one else out there. "Well At lest you were smart and used magic." He made a quick laugh then continued talking. "You should have seen me running around looking for cover till I found this tree over there." He said looking back at the tree that helped him.