The eyes quickly pulled back and a male voice spoke. "Sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!"
"Who are you, anyway?" Icy looked rather vexed at the moment, but studied the eyes' owner. He was smiling – he had a nice smile, she noticed – and his eyes shone with a cross between amusement and apology. She decided she adored his eyes. His hair was a dark brown – almost black - and it hung carelessly to his shoulders. He had a nice tan, as well. He was well built. He was tall; he was standing on the floor now. She gave him a flirtatious smile and apologized. "Not to be rude- But I don't generally wake up with a face that close to mine,"
"My fault entirely," He said with a charming smile, and took her hand and kissed it, "Sirius Black, at your service. And may I ask your name, lovely lady?"
"Icy. Icy Vhikers," She said.
"Ah, so you're one of the mystery girls I'm suppose to tutor," He grinned.
"Guess so," Icy had a sweet and innocent expression on her face.
"Hey, Ice- Quit flirting," Ducky teased from the doorway.
"I wasn't flirting," Icy blushed several shades of red.
"Ah, and you are?" Sirius turned to the other girl.
"Ducky Quaxy," Ducky held out her hand and he kissed it. Ducky chuckled.
"Ducky Quaxy?" Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Alright, my name is Koralynn. But Ducky is my nickname, it's what always calls me," Ducky grinned.
"Koralynn? That's a pretty name," Sirius grinned at the girl.
"Right. Stick with Icy. I'm still missing my ex-not-by-choice-boyfriend," Ducky told him.
"Okay. That reminds me," Sirius turned back to Icy, "That is a very odd name. Pretty, yes, odd, yes, that to,"
"My parents are odd," Icy smiled sweetly at him.
"I'm sure you're just as interesting," Sirius grinned.
"Sirius- stop flirting with the students," a voice said jokingly from the doorway.
"Aww, but its so fun, Jamsie," Sirius turned to the voice.
"Just leave one for me," the boy joked.
"And you are?" Ducky asked him.
"James Potter," He said with a bow.
"Do you know what a brush is?" Icy raised an eyebrow at the boy's short-jet-black-never-seen-a-hairbrush-looking hair.
"It grows this way!" James looked annoyed.
"Of course," Ducky said grinning.
"So you're two of the student-teachers," Icy had turned back to Sirius, and her sweet and innocent expression was back, "What are you teaching us?"
Sirius grinned at the girl, and sat down on the bed next to her, playfully dropping an arm around her shoulders. "James is teaching you two Transfiguration and Potions,"
"Call will be teaching you History of Magic and Herbology, Eckland will be teaching you Charms and Astronomy," James continued,
"And I will be teaching you Defense Against the Dark Arts, Divination, and for you, Miss Icy, Ancient Runes," Sirius said, his tone playful, his face close to hers.
"Call? Eckland?" Icy was to busy figuring this out to think about how close his face was.
"As in Lita Call and Eclipse Eckland?" Ducky stared.
"Yeah," said James with a nod, "You know them?"
"Yes," Icy said, now pouting "There only two of my best friends! There witches! Okay- this isn't funny. Everybody but me has been schooled in magic,"
"You look very cute when you pout," Sirius still had his face close to hers. She blushed.
"Black, get your face away from one of my best friends face, will ya? She don't need to get her first kiss from a guy like you," an amused feminine voice came from the doorway.
"Yes, will you?" another female voice asked. The other four turned to the door to find Lita and Eclipse standing there.
"No, I don't think I will." Sirius said grinning, placing his face closer.
"Please?" asked Ducky.
"No. First kiss, huh? I'd think a girl like you would have had many kisses," Sirius said playfully.
"I'm not dating until I'm sixteen," Icy said firmly.
"Aww… Damn. When's your birthday?" Sirius asked.
"August 22nd," Icy said.
"I don't think I can wait that long," Sirius said.
"Find a new girl, then," Icy said.
"Fine," Sirius sat back, pouting. Icy chuckled and jumped out of bed, rushing to hug Lita and Eclipse.
"It's been so long!"
"Way to long," agreed Lita, allowing Ducky to join in the hug.
"Bleh, girls are to emotional," said James.
"Why come I didn't get a hug when you saw me, Icy?" Sirius pouted.
"Aww… I'm sorry!" Icy broke the hug and tackled Sirius on the bed in a hug.
"Yay!" Sirius hugged the girl tightly.
"When do we go shopping?" Ducky asked Eclipse.
"After we eat lunch," Lita was the one to respond.
"Lets go!" Eclipse turned to leave, "I'm hungry!"
"Alright," everyone agreed. Sirius was still hugging Icy tightly when they got up.
"Let go of me," Icy demanded.
"No," Sirius said, and followed the others out of the room, still holding the girl.
"Where are we going?" asked Ducky asked James.
"Great Hall. Dumbledore decided we'll have meals in there so you have at least a vague knowledge to where to go," Lita was the one to respond.
"Oh," Ducky said.
"So we start being taught tomorrow?" asked Icy.
"Yeah," James said, "Sirius is gonna steal you for the first lesson and 'Clipse will take Ducky for Charms,"
"What are you going to be teaching me?" Icy asked Sirius.
"Defense," Sirius responded.
"Sirius?" James asked.
"Yes?" Sirius responded.
"Why are you still hugging and now carrying Icy?" Lita asked.
"'Cause I want to," Sirius said.
"Does she want you to?" asked Ducky.
"No," Icy said in response.
"…" Eclipse blinked, "Then why is he?"
"Because he's Sirius," James said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Of course," Sirius agreed.
"Will you please put be down now?" Icy asked.
"Well… since you asked so nicely," Sirius grinned and placed her on the ground.
"Thank you," Icy said.
"Wow… Sirius actually was nice," teased Lita.
"We should write this down," James said, chuckling.
"Definitely," agreed Eclipse.
"Shut up," grumbled Sirius as Ducky and Icy snickered.
"Aww… I'm sure they didn't mean to hurt your feelings," Ducky said.
"We didn't?" James, Lita, and Eclipse asked at the same time.
"Or maybe they did," Icy smiled.
"I'm glad, James, that I have such a kind best friend," Sirius said.
"Aren't you, though?" James asked grinning.
"Here we are- the Great Hall," Lita said as they entered, "This is where we have all our meals,"
"Right," Ducky and Icy chimed together.
"Today we'll sit at a random table – well, the Gryffindor 'cause I refuse to sit with any other house," James started.
"House?" Icy asked blankly.
"House- uhm… we get sorted into one of the houses, there are four," Sirius said.
"Gryffindor for the brave, it's what all four of us are in," Lita said.
"Ravenclaw- that's all the really smart people," Eclipse said.
"Hufflepuff is the house for the hardworking," James said.
"And you don't want to be in Slytherin. They're really bad. Icy won't be in it, 'cause she's muggle-born, though,"
"Muggle-born?" Icy asked confused.
"It means your parents are muggles, or non-magic people," Ducky explained.
"Oh," Icy said, nodding.
The six sat down and ate lunch. The four student-teachers explained the usual Hogwarts life. Sirius, James, and Lita nearly had a heart attack after finding out Icy didn't know what Quidditch was and went into an explanation. They finished lunch soon and went to Dumbledore, who sent them to Diagon Alley.
"Okay, we're all going to get our stuff early, 'cause, well, we have the lists and we need the stuff," James said.
"Right," Lita said, rolling her eyes.
"Lets see…" Sirius was looking over Icy's list, "You're wand and stuff, naturally… Oi. You've never been schooled in magic but he's put you in Advanced Potions, Advance Defense, and Advance Transfiguration! Oi! And Charms!"
"Meep! I'm gonna fail," Icy pouted.
"No you won't," Ducky said.
"Hey, Ducky," Lita was looking over Ducky's list, "He's got you in Advanced Potions, Defense, and Transfiguration, too, as well as charms!"
"I've been schooled in magic, but not that well," Ducky looked troubled.
"I don't know, I'm in the same advanced classes, but he's the one who put me in there," Eclipse said.
"Yeah, me to," Lita agreed.
"I did very well on my O.W.L's," Sirius said proudly, "So I get to take all the classes I need to be in to become and Auror,"
"Me to," James looked proud, as well.
"Now lets see if you pass those classes," Lita smirked, and the two boys looked saddened.
"Lita, you're so mean," Ducky laughed.
"I know," Lita said.
"We need to get Icy's money exchanged, first," Eclipse said, steering them to a snowy white building. They entered a pair or doors and came to another pair. Icy tipped her head as she read what was engraved in them.
Enter, stranger, but take heedOf what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors,
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more then treasure there.
"I like!" Icy grinned.
"Really? It's always gave me a creepy feeling." Sirius said.
"Icy's weird." Ducky responded for her. They exchanged money, got some money from their vaults explaining how to work the money to Icy.
"Seventeen silver sickles to a galleon…" James explained.
"Twenty-nine bronze Knuts to a sickle, and the gold ones are galleons." finished Eclipse.
"It seems simple enough," Icy said.
"Only three coins," Ducky said, "So you don't have to bother with nickels, dimes, pennies, quarters, or dollar bills!"
"What are those?" Sirius and James asked together.
"American currency." The four girls said together.
"Ah, I see," James and Sirius said together, "Lets go get the books."
"Alright," the girls agreed. The grabbed picked up their books ("Advanced Transfiguration by Linda Carleis," Icy whined, "I don't want to be in advanced!") and headed to the Apotherecy. After that they went to buy cauldrons, and then bought parchment and quills.
"C'mon, lets go get robes, I need a new set anyway, and-" Sirius looked down at the list, "Dress Robes? Since when do we need dress robes?"
"Since this year," Lita said innocently.
"Oi, c'mon," Eclipse dragged them into Madame Malkin's Robes For All Occasions.
"Hello," a young witch smiled flirtatiously at the boys.
"Hello," The boys chimed, looking at her curiously.
"Dress robes?" Madam Malkin's voice asked, coming up.
"For us, but these two need normal robes," James indicated Icy and Ducky.
"Excuse me, but I need normal robes to. I grew out of mine," Sirius said.
"Stop growing," Lita said, "You're to tall as it is!"
"Right," Sirius said, "I'll just try and stop growing now."
"You do that." Eclipse said.
"Right, Anna will help you out, James, Sirius, and Eclipse, and I'll help Lita and these two." Madam Malkin said. Anna grinned.
"Come on," Anna smiled sweetly at the boys, and waved her hand meaning they should follow. They did, and the other three girls followed Madam Malkin to the same room. All of they're measurements were taken, and Sirius, Icy and Ducky quickly had there plain robes. The dress robes, though, took a bit longer.
Lita settled on a spaghetti-strap, muggle looking one, in a forest green, that flowed at the bottom. Eclipse's went to her knees, looking like a tighter, shorter, white set of the normal robes. Ducky went with a red, fairly simple, robe though it dipped it the front lower then usual, and wasn't as loose. Icy simply chose a black off-the-shoulder one, which also flowed slightly at the bottom.
James and Sirius didn't have much luck. Either Anna or the girls didn't like the one they liked, so it was becoming a mess. James sighed.
"You know what? I'm gonna get the dark purple ones. Yes, the purple ones. Live with it," James said, and Madam Malkin smiled. Sirius pondered for a moment.
"The dark blue one, Sirius. I like those, they look good on you and bring out your eyes," Icy spoke up.
"Blue, huh? Okay, I can settle for that," Sirius grinned. Anna had a slight pout, she hadn't wanted him to wear the blue robe, but got the robe for him anyway. They paid for them, and trooped out of the store.
"Wands," James said.
"Correction," Ducky grinned, "Wand. I have mine. I've studied magic before, remember?"
"Ah, okay," James nodded, and they headed off to get Icy's wand. After they entered a fairly old man entered the room.
"Miss Vhikers?" The man, Ollivander, asked Icy. Icy nodded hesitantly. He turned to the other.
"Ah, Mr. Potter- Mahogany, eleven inches, phoenix feather, yes? And Mr. Black– Ebony, dragon heartstring, Twelve and a half inches," Ollivander smiled, "Miss Call- Oak, Ten and a half inches, unicorn hair, Miss Eckland! Eleven inches, rosewood, phoenix feather. Ah! Miss Quaxy, ten inches, unicorn hair, holly!"
"Yep," They all chimed. Ollivander turned back to Icy.
"Which is your wand hand?" He asked her.
"Err… I'm right-handed." Icy said uncertainly. He nodded and began taking measurements. Rather, it measured and he looked through wands. The measurements finished and a wand was shoved into her hand.
"Holly, Nine inches, Unicorn hair, try it," He said. Icy felt rather foolish, but she waved it. The window broke. Icy jumped, startled. Ollivander waved his own wand, muttering something, and it was fixed.
"Right, That's not it," He snatched the wand and handed her another one, "Ebony, phoenix feather, ten inches,"
About a second after Icy had it, it was snatched away.
"Yew, dragon heartstring, Twelve inches."
"No- try this. Holly, unicorn hair, nine inches."
"No! Maple, phoenix feather, eleven inches…"
It went on like this for several more wands (and a window broken twice more, along with the door) until
"Try this one. Willow, dragon heartstring, eleven and a half inches,"
Icy tiredly waved the wand and shimmering white, black, red, green, blue, and yellow sparks shot out of it.
"Oh, very good!" Ollivander clapped his hands together, "Bravo! Very good indeed!"
Icy gave him a weird look as he turned to put it back into the box, with pale brown paper. The other snickered quietly. He handed her the box as she paid.
"You six always have a habit of breaking my window when trying for your wand, don't you?" Ollivander asked, his eyes twinkling in amusement, "As well as Mr. Pettigrew and Mr. Lupin,"
They waved as they left, and once they were out of earshot, Icy asked:
"Is he in his right mind?"
"Well…" Sirius said grinning.
"I don't think so," James said, sounding amused.