Answers and the End of Break

A bolt of electricity flew at Harry and singed his arm. Looking up he saw another bolt heading strait towards Ron, "Ron look out!"

Ron looked up, flung his body to the ground and started rolling down the stairs. Harry crawled on his belly down the stairs to meet Ron. "What's going on?"

"I don't know!"

Suddenly the portrait flew open and there stood Professor Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, Sprout, Remus and Sirius all in their pajamas. "Everyone make a circle around her and on my mark perform the charm!" yelled Dumbledore.

Harry and Ron laid on the floor and watched in amazement as the adults struggled to block the electricity bolts. "Now!"

Purple light shot out from their wands and the streams crossed to form a net around Icicle. Slowly but surely the net shrank until Icicle was tangled in the net. Then everything stopped, Icicle fell to the ground, the net disappeared and Hogwarts stopped shaking. Most of the teachers stood their shaking while Dumbledore and Remus ran over to Icicle. Remus help Icicle sit up and rubbed her back trying to get her to stop coughing while Dumbledore started checking to see if she had any visible wounds.

There was a loud crack as part of the common room ceiling fell down and landed not more then a foot from Harry and Ron's heads. "That was sodding close…" whispered Ron.

Sirius turned around finally realizing that Harry and Ron were in the common room and ran towards them, "Are you two all right?"

"Yeah," they mumbled.

But of course Sirius started fussing over the two of them. The other teacher walked around the common room performing charms to fix the damaged so that the ceiling would not cave in on everyone over the night. Icicle, Ron and Harry had all been placed onto a newly fixed couch, which was previously charred, when all the teachers left the common room mumbling about catching a few hours of sleep before they repaired the whole castle. Icicle was still coughing occasionally, Remus and Sirius were talking to each other quietly as Dumbledore took off his glasses and cleaned them. "What in the world just happened?" Harry blurted out.

"Yeah what the hell just happen?" asked Icicle

Dumbledore took a seat across from Harry, Icicle and Ron, "Well what happened isn't common knowledge because it doesn't happen very often on this scale but Icicle had what is called a power surge."

Ron perked up at this, "I did a report on power surges back before Hogwarts."

Dumbledore smiled over at Ron, "Then you should know what they are all about."

Ron shifted uncomfortably in his chair, "Yeah but what happened was too powerful for a power surge and isn't Icicle young? I mean both you and Merlin only caused the destruction of things with in 15ft of you and you were both 20, Icicle had to have a radius of 15 miles and she is only 15."

"Actually Mr. Weasley, we are got reports the power surge was felt for 20 miles."

Ron's jaw hit the floor.

Harry was confused, "Could some one explain exactly what a power surge is?"

"A power surge happens to all wizards and witches when they are usually in their mid to late 20's. Most of the time they don't even know that they had a power surge because nothing big really happens, but when a talented and strong wizard or witch comes along they tend to have noticeable power surge in their early 20's," explained Ron.

"And do these power surges have some sort of benefit?"

"The wizard's magic usually drastically increases."

Harry and Ron turned and stared in awe at Icicle who was laying her head on Remus's lap. "Excellent explanation Mr. Weasley. I do believe that Gryffindor deserves 5 points for that."

"What was the purple net that you used?"

"Good question Mr. Potter, it's called an energy absorption net. The spell causes the caster to absorb the energy that they suck from the person under the spell. But since there was so much energy we had to use several people so that we did not go into surges of our own."

"I hate to break up this conversation," interrupted Remus, "but I think we have a problem."

They all looked over to where Remus was sitting. Icicle was still lying on Remus lap. "What's the problem?"

Remus picked up the towel that Icicle was coughing into earlier, it was stained with blood. "I am guessing that she suffered some internal injuries during the surge."

Dumbledore motioned to Remus who picked Icicle up, "Let's get her to the hospital wing.  Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley you may want to come with us too. Madame Pomfrey will want to make sure you both are okay."

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By 10 the next morning, both Ron and Harry had made it out of the Hospital wing and Harry had talked to Professor Dumbledore about his dream of Karkaroff's murder. Come around 4 in the afternoon Harry and Ron started to wonder where Icicle was. "Remind me why we are looking for her again?" asked Ron as he followed Harry.

"One, we are jerks and it is time to make up. Two, Hermione will be back in a few days and our heads will roll if we haven't made up.

Ron stopped at a window and looked out, "There she is Harry. She is laying in the snow for some weird reason."

Looking out the window Ron was at Harry saw a familiar purple cloaked figure laying smack dab in the middle of the quidditch field.

A while later Harry and Ron finally made it out to the quidditch field and approached Icicle. "Hi," chirped Ron.

Icicle just continued to lay on the snow ignoring them. Harry sighed, "Were both really sorry for being such prats. We are in no position to tell you who you can or can't be friends with."

Ron rubbed his temples in frustration, "Just be careful, okay? I know I just don't want Draco to have a chance to hurt you but I guess out of everyone in the world you might be the one that is able to set him strait."

Harry gave Icicle he puppy dog face, "Are we forgiven?"

Icicle looked up at them and smiled for the first time in a long time, "Yes."

Ron plopped down on one side of Icicle and Harry on the other, "Now that we have that settled aren't you cold?"

"Very, but the frost bite helps clear my mind."

"Clear your mind of what?" asked Harry.

Icicle raised her wand "This, lumos." Light came blazing out of her wand causing a lot of the snow around them to melt and some of the hairs on Harry's head to singe. "I can't even keep first year spells under control.  It sucks!  Dumbledore is having me spend the last week of break training with him and some of the teachers so that I can't regain control of my powers before everyone comes back and I end up killing them by accident. The rest of my break is going to bite."

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Harry and Ron spent the rest of the winter break with Remus and Sirius while Icicle was in her training sessions. It was finally the last day of break and Harry, Ron and Icicle were all met with a huge surprise. "Hermione!" screeched Icicle as she pounced Hermione who had just walk into the common room, "What are you doing back early?"

"Dumbledore wrote me and invited me to the special goodbye dinner tonight so of course I had to come."

It was nice having Hermione back. The four talked about break and filled each other in on events that had gone on in each of their lives. "Victor Krum sent you want!?" sputtered Ron.

"A special edition of Hogwarts a History." repeated Hermione, "Honestly, we are still friends even though he doesn't live here."

The rest of the day was fun. Remus and Sirius met up with the four soon after Hermione had shown up and they spent the day roaming the halls. Of course Icicle made Remus sing and Sirius play the piano and for some reason Icicle and Hermione actually did something totally out of character for them, they giggled.

"What?" asked Ron.

Hermione waved her hand at Ron, "Oh it is really nothing, Icicle and I had always wondered what made Sirius and Remus such knock outs when they were in school and we just found out. A lot of girls believe that a guy that who can sing or play the piano is one of the sexiest men in the world."

Icicle nodded in agreement. She was obviously one of them.

"You know what?" interrupted Remus, "Harry might be able to sing. His dad was tone deft but his mom had a lovely voice."

Harry blushed at the thought having to sing, "I don't think I can."

"Nonsense Harry," quipped Sirius, "Give it a try."

Harry shook his head but pretty soon he found himself being coached by Remus and Sirius as Hermione, Icicle and Ron looked on. He listened to everything that Remus told him to do and then he started going through some scales. No long after that Harry was singing songs. Sure enough, Harry could sing and sing very well. Ron was clapping, Hermione was smiling and Icicle looked like she was in shock. "It is official," stated Icicle, "You are one of the hottest guys in Hogwarts."

Sirius patted Harry on the back, "Well you guys, I have to go do something before dinner so I will see you later."

Sirius jogged out the door, "What does he have to do?" asked Harry.

Remus gave a faint smile, "You'll see, you'll see…."

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At about 6:00pm Sirius and a lady with short brown hair and gray eyes walked into the common room. Sirius took the lady's hand and smiled at the four, "Harry, Ron, Icicle, Hermione I would like you to meet my girlfriend Krystal Moorhead."

All four of them stared at Sirius in shock. How a convict could have a girlfriend was beyond all three of them. "Hello it is nice to finally meet you Harry. Sirius has told me so much about you." said Krystal

Harry shook her hand, "Err..hello."

Everyone continued to talk as they all migrated down to the great hall for dinner. Krystal was sure interesting. She held a job as a secretary for the ministry and had apparently graduated two years after Sirius. She was constantly smiling and flirting with Sirius that at times the two forgot that they were at dinner with several other people. Krystal was telling the group about her family and how she had two sisters when Harry looked beside him and caught the blank look in Icicle's eyes. "Hey, are you okay?"

Icicle focused in on Krystal, "I'm fine."

As everyone finished their desert it was finally time to say goodbye and head to bed since Sirius and Remus had decided that it was best to leave very early in the morning to avoid being seen. Sirius pulled Harry into a hug, "Wow this is the longest period of time we have spent together without something horrible happening. Behave and write if you need anything at all."

"I will," replied Harry, "Take care of yourself too."

After some more good-byes Harry finally shook hands with Krystal who pulled Harry into a hug, "It was nice meeting you maybe I will see you again soon."

With that Harry, Ron, Hermione and Icicle all headed in the direction of the common room. "I am glad that Sirius is finally pulling together the pieces of his life again. Krystal is going to be good for him," commented Hermione.

"Yeah if you think dark temptresses are good for people," said Icicle between her teeth.

Harry turned sharply and looked at Icicle, "What are you talking about."

"I have this feeling like I have met her somewhere before. I know that I know her but I can't place where I know her from. All I do know is that my gut is telling me to beat her to a pulp and kick her out of the castle."

"That's a little bit judgmental especially since you are basing everything on your gut feelings." mentioned Hermione.

"Last time I didn't pay attention to my gut I lost my muggle mom, dad and brother," Icicle just shook it off, "Let's just drop it. I am going to sit back wait and research and if I absolutely find out she is evil then we can worry."

"Okay…"

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