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I know one shouldn't, but like many teachers I associate (some) names with past pupils. And that puts Melody right at the bottom of every known list. Exactly like the 13-year-old in my long-ago class, Melody is genuinely pretty as a word and a concept, but as a name for a person it is grotesquely inappropriate. The one I knew was very beautiful, but a liar and a cheat and too lazy to think for herself at all, so constantly surprised at being caught out, yet again ... it was fascinating, actually: I was a first-year teacher, and when I met that class Melody stood out for her sweet-faced beauty, but by the end of the first week, I could no longer see her as lovely in any way.

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Her parents were prosperous, and used money to solve their problems, including making their daughter go away and be happy somewhere else.