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The initial scare of having someone sneak up on her had worn off quickly, her eyes returning to their normal size and her smile looking more genuine than queasy, so Melanie wondered why her heart was still beating as though it wanted to jump off her chest. She reckoned Charlie had something to do with it and she shrugged it off, not giving it too much thought. At least it was her heart acting crazy and not her stomach, which just last month had taken to doing cartwheels and jumping jacks, all at the same time, every time Charlie was around. And had it really been a whole month already? The thought didn't help slowing her heart, but it did widen her smile.

"No, no. Hm, that's not it," Melanie said in mock seriousness while busying herself with her journal and bag. "No, I could've--" The rest of her reply got lost along with Charlie's in the rough noise. True to her previous words, it took her all of three seconds to register what was happening and by the time she stood up, the staircase had already moved a few inches away from the landing. Melanie really wanted to laugh, because now Charlie had to walk all the way to wherever the staircase landed next to get to her. Or, well, that would have been the sensible thing to do, but since when did he do anything sensible? She watched with wide eyes as Charlie took the risk to jump over the gap. The gap wasn't too wide, really, but a simple slip would've had him falling down three floors. And crashing. And dying, most likely, because she doubted Madam Pomfrey had any remedy for death by stupidity. And, sweet mother of Merlin, the nerve of him!

"CHARLES VAISEY, ARE YOU INSANE!?" She all but screeched, ignoring his casual comment, before sitting down again and taking a deep breath, trying to calm herself. He was okay, he didn't die. He could've died, like Stewart and Garrick could've died that morning, but he didn't and it was okay and she should stop worrying so much about it because everyone's bound to die some day. Eventually. Yeah. "Of course you're insane, everyone's insane and you're all going to kill me one of these days," she kept muttering to herself as she waited for the staircase to stop moving to get off of it, trying to avoid looking at Charlie. She wasn't mad, but looking at him at that moment would make her want to either hug him to death or push him off the staircase herself, which would result in his death either way and she really, really didn't want him to die. So she waited and avoided looking at him and that's when she noticed the Firebolt hovering over them. So much for avoiding him. "Uh, Charlie? Why is there a broom following us?"