DECEMBER 24, 1969

Oh! It's you! Hello, again! I'm guessing you're here to find out about Flurry Heart's Christmas Eve adventure that she had this year, right? Well, I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it's a very special kind of snow. It's the kind of snow that can make the happy happier and the giddy even giddier. A snow to make a homecoming homier and natural enemies like the postman and the dog, friends. You see, it's the first snow of the season. And as any child can tell you, there's a certain magic to the very first snow. In fact, that's something that Flurry Heart often tells her parents, Shining Amor and Cadence, every year. Especially when the first snow falls on the day before Christmas. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well... let's just say that something wonderful is bound to happen.

Now, our story begins at Flurry Heart's school. Flurry was both best friends and neighbors with a blonde girl her age named Karen. Karen was wearing a red-and-white shirt as she and her other classmates were excitedly looking out the window at the snow falling down. Their teacher, however, wasn't too pleased at them being out of their seats.

"Children, back to your seats. The snow can wait," she said calmly.

The children pouted as they went back to their desks.

"It's always like this every year," Flurry groaned.

"What did you expect? It's the day before Christmas and Miss Heron planned a Christmas party for the class," Karen responded.

Now, as for the class Christmas party itself, Miss Heron revealed that she had hired a magician named Professor Hinkle Tinkerton. He was a tall man with brown hair and a mustache dressed in a pink shirt and a green tuxedo. He also wore a green top hat with a black band around the brim, complete with a flower accessory. Unfortunately, the class would soon quickly discover that Professor Hinkle was just about the worst magician in the world. And why is that? Well, as soon as he took off his hat to greet everyone, all of his magic stuff came crashing on to the floor from being inside his hat.

Anyways, after that minor fiasco was cleaned up, Professor Hinkle tried to do a magic trick by putting eggs into his hat. After shaking his hat for a bit, he flipped the hat over, expecting the eggs to turn into something else, like flowers. Instead, the eggs fell on the floor and ended up making a mess. The students were not amused one bit. In fact, they were downright disappointed at how mediocre Professor Hinkle was.

"WHERE. IS. THAT. RABBIT?!" Professor Hinkle snarled as he looked at his hat after cleaning up the mess. "Hocus Pocus, where are you?!" He searched the inside of his hat for his magic rabbit, but couldn't find it. "Bah! The only thing this hat's good for is trash can!"

Out of frustration, Professor Hinkle tossed his hat towards the trash can. Instead of going in, however, the hat bounced off and landed on its top, causing a white rabbit with pink eyes and a big red nose to pop out. The rabbit's name was Hocus Pocus. The hat landed back on top of him, and Hocus started hopping around the classroom. Professor Hinkle dove to try to catch the mischievous little rabbit, but ended up falling flat on his face, as he missed, instead.

The kids ended up laughing at his misfortune, as they found it funny that a grown man was outsmarted by a white rabbit.

"Now, THAT'S funny!" Flurry laughed.

Suddenly, the final bell rang as hour became 3:00.

"CHRISTMAS BREAK!"

The kids were so excited to go outside that they ended up trampling Professor Hinkle on the way out. Flurry grabbed her light blue coat and put it on. She then put on her purple boots, purple earmuffs, and purple gloves, before heading outside with her fellow classmates.

Everyone ran outside and started excitedly playing around in the snow. One of the boys hit Flurry with a snowball, which made her stop dead in her tracks.

"Oh, you think that's funny, do you?" she retorted.

She soon made a snowball and hit him right back.

"Gotcha!"

"Hey, Flurry! Come over here!" Karen called.

Flurry ran over to where Karen was and saw that she was helping two twin boys make a snowman.

"Could you help me with the head?"

"Sure."

Flurry helped roll the head on to the body. Soon, the snowman looked more like an actual person than a traditional snowman. The kids gave the snowman a broomstick to hold in his right hand, put a corncob pipe in his mouth, gave him two coal eyes, and a button for a nose.

"What'll we call him?" one of the boys asked.

"Shall we call him Harold?" the other twin asked.

"Bruce?" one boy asked.

"Nah."

"Christopher Columbus?" one girl asked.

"Oh, no."

"Oatmeal!" the youngest boy said randomly.

"Oatmeal?" everyone asked, raising their eyebrows.

"How about... Frosty?" Karen suggested.

"Frosty? I like it! That's a great name! Frosty the Snowman!" Flurry exclaimed.

The kids all cheered and started singing while dancing around the snowman. Their fun was soon cut short when Professor Hinkle burst out the school's doors as he continued to chase Hocus Pocus. He eventually caught the rabbit, but as he did, the hat blew away towards the children. Karen caught the hat and placed it on to Frosty's head, which suddenly brought him to life by magic.

"Happy birthday!" Frosty exclaimed.

Everyone was surprised at what they had just witnessed. Right before their eyes, Frosty had just spoke and came to life.

"That hat brought Frosty to life!" Karen gasped. "It must be magic!"

"Magic?" Professor Hinkle asked enthusiastically. "My hat, magic?"

Just then, the wind blew the hat off of Frosty and Professor Hinkle caught it.

"If that hat is magic, I want it back."

"But it's not yours anymore! You threw it away!"

"Don't talk back to your elders you... you naughty, naughty little girl."

Professor Hinkle caught Hocus as he was chastising Karen before putting him back in the hat.

"And you... STAY IN THERE! Or there will be no carrots for Christmas!" he bellowed.

"But you can't take that hat back," one of the twins argued.

"It brought Frosty to life," the other twin added.

"You saw it happen!" Karen said angrily.

"I saw nothing of the kind," Professor Hinkle denied.

Hocus popped out of the hat and started chastising him.

"Quiet! I can't lose that hat if it's really got magic, now. It'll make me a millionaire magician!"

"We know we saw Frosty come to life! Didn't we, boys?" Flurry said with her arms folded.

"Uh-huh," one of the twins agreed.

"Oh, we sure did," the other added.

"You silly children believe everything you see," Professor Hinkle said. "When you're grown up you'll realize that snowmen can't come to life."

"But, we..." Karen started before being cut off by Professor Hinkle.

He then put his hat on his head and left the schoolyard.

"That wasn't very nice," Flurry said. "I know magic when I see it. And I speak for everyone when I say that we DID see him come to life. We know it happened. We just... know..."

Author's Note

I named the teacher Miss Heron, because her design reminds me of Miss Fowl from Jimmy Neutron.

Also, this was one of the few Family Home Entertainment Christmas Classic Series VHS tapes I actually owned as a child.

And for those who don't know, in the 2005 movie, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman, it is revealed that Professor Hinkle is the grandfather of the character, Tommy Tinkerton, the son of the mayor in that film.