Sure enough, Bloom does the spell right after breakfast - breaks the curse on Duman, and then collapses into one of the Hospital beds for hours. Madame Pomfrey takes one look at Bloom's snoring form and says "Looks like things are back to normal. Bloom's sleeping off using her magic, nothing new here anymore."

Ogron asks "She was in here a lot?"

"Between Bloom and Harry, they must've spent half a year in here for one thing or another. With Bloom, most of it was because she over-exerted herself for one reason or another. Is it safe to assume I'm going to lose a patient soon?"

Anagan says "Hopefully. She broke the curse, so…"

"Hm, then he should wake up soon enough. It's no exaggeration when people say Bloom's the strongest student to have ever come here."


When Bloom wakes up hours later, she looks over to find a plate of food next to her bed - it quickly disappears. She looks over in the other direction and sees two of the Wizards of the Black Circle standing and Duman on the bed still - Ogron is missing however.

Anagan is holding her wand, and she immediately says "Don't wave it!"

He jumps a foot in the air, and asks "What?"

"My wand, don't wave it. Most wands react badly when someone other than their owner uses them, especially when it's a total stranger - and my wand isn't most wands."

He looks at it for a moment, and says "Yeah, we could tell. The fact that it's carved and all."

Bloom shakes her head and says "No, I made it with my powers. It's power grew along with mine, it's literally the most powerful length of wood you'll ever hold. Draco once waved it as a joke, he ended up flat on his back and with his hair blackened by soot and extremely sore - that was in year one." She flexes her fingers, and the wand comes flying over to her. "Where's Ogron? And how long's it been since-"

Gantlos says "A few hours, and Ogron went for a walk."

"Where?"

She sounds slightly desperate and nervous, and Anagan shrugs and says "He didn't know where. Somewhere he could think."

"Gods, don't tell me he went to…" She quickly pulls out the packet of paper they saw her have multiple times, and she waves her wand over it and says "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." She then waits for a moment before starting to search the entire thing - they see it's a map, though it was definitely blank when she got it out.

Anagan asks "Are those dots…moving?"

"Yeah, part of the Map's enchantment. Harry's father, Sirius, Remus, and Wormtail made it while they were in school, a way to get around without being seen. Called themselves the Marauders, Moony, Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail."

Gantlos frowns and says "We know who Mooney and Padfoot are…but why the weird names?"

"Remus is a werewolf, so Sirius, James, and Pettigrew became Animagi to keep him company each month. A Werewolf is only dangerous to humans, so they were perfectly safe in their animal forms."

Anagan asks "What could Sirius turn into? Remus called him Padfoot."

"A dog. A big black dog. And James Potter could turn into a stag. Hence the name Prongs, the antlers of a stag."

"So who's Wormtail?" Bloom's face darkens in fury, and she spits out "Peter Pettigrew. He became the Potters' Secret-Keeper after they went into hiding, and then he betrayed them to Voldemort and framed Sirius. They were killed, Sirius locked away in Azkaban for twelve years, and Harry forced to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. He's not on here, gods, he's gone into the Dark Forest!"

Bloom springs up out of bed, mentally shouting Harry! Ogron's gone into the Dark Forest! You get Hagrid, I'm going after him!

She then teleports out to the edge of the Dark Forest and does a tracking spell.


Ogron's walking through the forest at the edge of the school grounds, trying to clear his head. Bloom did the spell on Duman, actually had them all leave so she wouldn't get distracted and they wouldn't freak about something - and then she passed out for hours.

Duman wasn't doing any better - or any worse - and the wait for any kind of results was driving him crazy. So, he decided the best thing for it was to get out of the building and away from all the people. So, he went to the one place he's never seen anyone so much as glance at - the big forest on the edge of the school grounds.

Now though, he's thinking it might have been a mistake - he's completely lost and keeps hearing noises in the distance. Somehow, he comes out in a giant clearing - and then huge spiders, big as monster trucks, come crawling out of the trees.

Oh hell, now you've gone and done it, Ogron.

He's got no clue how he's going to get out of this one, until a familiar and very welcome voice shouts "Arania Exumai!"

Bloom comes sprinting into the clearing, hitting more and more spiders with fireballs and the spell that they really seem to hate. It knocks them all away, and then she's webbed to the ground by one of them.

Ogron yells "Crap! Bloom, there's more of these things!"

She doesn't need to be told twice, just yells back "Run! Get out of here!"

One of the Acromantulas comes directly over her, venom oozing out of its pincers and dripping on Bloom's arm - she explodes at that, flinging all the spiders far into the trees and freeing herself.

The spiders recover and gather in front of Bloom - who's had enough of them for now. Her body catches fire, and the entire forest floor starts shaking as her eyes turn orange. The spiders stop to a halt suddenly, then take off in the other direction suddenly - Bloom's glare full of fire sure helped with that.

She snatches up her wand with her good hand and shifts it to her other, and Ogron winces at the sight of her arm. The venom is getting into her blood by now, but she doesn't have time to try and heal herself at the moment - she grabs Ogron's arm and they teleport back to the front of the forest.


Harry, Ron, Hermione, the Winx, the Specialists, and Hagrid are running for the Dark Forest, when suddenly Bloom and Ogron appear in a vortex of fire.

Bloom's gripping Ogron's arm, likely so she'd take him with her in the teleporting, but now she drops it and holds her shoulder. She says "He went to Aragog's clearing." and then collapses.

Harry catches her, as Hermione and Ron both yell "WHAT?!"

Harry lifts her hand away from her shoulder to discover the mark where the venom was absorbed into her bloodstream through her skin. "Hermione, start saying everything you know about Acromantula venom fast."

Hermione starts worriedly listing off everything she's read about the venom as they take Boom back to the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey isn't surprised in the slightest to see one of them hurt, just another year at Hogwarts with the two of them there for her.

"Harry, how is it you two manage to be the ones that get into the most dangerous situations and get hurt? First both of you collapse in the dungeon after beating Quirrell, then you get the bones in your arm removed, Bloom gets a Bludger to the stomach, Bloom gets knocked unconscious by the Basilisk and you get bitten by it in year two, you two get attacked by a horde of Dementors and a Werewolf in year three, Bloom manages to face off with Voldemort and all his Death-Eaters in year four, she dies and comes back to life in year five, the whole mess that happened in year six, and then you die and are dragged back to life in year seven - do you two just make it a habit to find the most ridiculously dangerous things to try or is it just bad luck?"

Anagan whistles at the long list of ways Bloom and Harry have gotten themselves hurt over seven years, and Harry says "Bloom was saving Ogron, this time. He went into the Dark Forest, managed to find the Acromantula colony."

Madame Pomfrey facepalms hard enough for everyone down the hall to hear the sound of her smacking her face. Fyra flies over and drips tears on Bloom's arm, healing the mark on her shoulder - unfortunately, it does nothing about the poison that's in her blood.


AN: Don't worry everyone, Bloom has survived a forest full of dragons - a stupid spider isn't going to take her down that easily! Besides, it seems like a pretty reasonable thing to assume that the Dragon Flame can immediately start healing her as soon as she gets hurt - she heals fast, remember? And she can always just come back to life - not doing that again, but it's happened before - so surviving Acromantula venom isn't anything huge. Anyway, enjoy! More updates coming soon! Please review if you have suggestions or feedback!