BTW, I did like how Orestes and Harry became fast friends over the summer; especially after Harry rather discomfitted Melanie.
Author's response
- Making sure a bonding between them came across was important to the plot, as was the conversation with 'Mrs. Weasley' at the end...
- The Melanie thing just came out of a rerun of a Family Guy episode where Lois was hyper aggressive in the sack, and freaked Peter out... Personally I recall a hyper agressive young lady from my twenties, I was heard to say 'Yay!'