Lucius blinks and stares at Bloom in confusion over the dinner table - she wants to what?!

When he asks as much, she repeats "Learn how to fight with a knife. No offense to anyone here, but half of Dueling is trying to get the opponent's wand away from them - you take that away, it's like you've cut off their hands or something. I figured it'd be a good idea if I could surprise someone with an additional weapon. For one, I can just Transfigure the air into little pins - what's with the look, I'll explain after this explanation! - but having an actual knife would be good to. As for why Transfiguring thin air into metal is possible, the air is made up of atoms and molecules just like anything else. Most of the Wizarding World just doesn't realize it since any progress in non-magical stuff stopped in the middle ages or so. Muggles learn all about this stuff, and I hung out in a library for a bit after third year. Wanted to get an edge over anyone who tried to attack me."

Draco chuckles, and says "Your possibly the most dangerous person on this planet, you know that Bloom?"

She shrugs, and says "I try. Anyway…you've got that room full of weapons…"

Narcissa shakes her head to hide a smile, and says "Before you ask, yes, most of them are actually for fighting with and not decorative. As for teaching you to fight with a knife, I'm sure something could be arranged."

Bloom stares at the two adults for a moment, then asks "You don't know how? I figured you would, since…you know, you fought in a war and all."

Everyone else notices how she avoids mentioning which side the adults were on, which gets a grateful look from Narcissa. Lucius shrugs, then says "It's never been my best weapon, to be honest. Teaching someone yourself, though, is simply not done in Pureblood society - it implies you don't have the money."

Bloom blinks, gives Draco a look that asks 'Is he serious?' then deadpans "That's bloody ridiculous. For a number of reasons. A, practically everyone knows you've got the money - trust me, I'm sure the entire Wizarding World got the message. B, if you can do something yourself, then hiring someone to do it for you is a total waste of that money. C…Wizarding society just seems extremely ridiculous at times. No offense."

Draco chuckles, and says "Considering how everyone thought you were the 'Heir of Slytherin' despite the little details that you weren't in the House and weren't alive fifty years before, it does seem that way."

"That's just people in general. I kept getting visions of Tom opening the Chamber - before you ask, I got them everywhere, sleep, reflections, everywhere - and calling out the Basilisk. That's actually how I knew how to open the Chamber in the first place, as I'd heard him saying a word in Parseltongue over and over again. I think it was 'open' actually, but that's just me guessing since all I ever heard was a lot of hissing."

Lucius frowns, and asks "The Basilisk…is it still down there?"

Bloom puts her hand up in a back and forth motion, then says "Some of it is. The bones. The rest got burned away. Why?"

"Basilisk parts - especially the venom - is extremely rare. Wait…how did only the bones survive? Basilisks don't decay for well over two hundred years after their death."

Bloom winces, then says "I burned away its flesh and organs when Tom's Diary-Horcrux called it out. Then I burned the Horcrux away to. Well, he burned himself away by trying to use my wand. Bloody idiot."

There's a dead silence at the table for a minute, then Narcissa quietly asks "You can do that? Just burn away anything that's not hard bone?"

Bloom nods, then says "Yeah." She looks down at her plate, putting another piece of food in her mouth.

Lucius mumbles "No wonder the Prophecy said you'd have the power to defeat him."

Bloom snaps her head up, then asks "You know about the Prophecy?"

Lucius' eyes go wide, and he asks "You don't? The Dark Lord was informed of it, and called all the Death Eaters together in a meeting. Asked if anyone knew of a baby girl that had been born to parents who had opposed him and lived three separate times. Nobody fit that description, and he recited some of the Prophecy. 'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Child of those who have thrice defied him, she shall come as the seventh month dies…' One of the group pointed out the detail that the Prophecy didn't say the child had been born at the end of July, but had 'come' at the end of the month. Peter Pettigrew, the spy Tom had converted in the Order, piped up with the info that the Potters had recently adopted a young girl…a girl who had shown up out of nowhere in a burning building on July thirty-first. His description seemed to fit perfectly." The bacon catches fire as Bloom puts her elbows on the table and her head in her hands.

After several minutes, she says "That's not all the Prophecy said. I've gotten dreams of Dumbledore interviewing Trelawney when the Prophecy was given lately. A lot. All fragments, though - eventually, I got tired of the lack of sleep and Scry'd it in my Orb. The full one goes like this. 'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. Child of those who have thrice defied him, she shall come as the seventh month dies. And the Dark Lord will mark her as his equal, but she will have power the Dark Lord knows not. The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will appear as the seventh month dies. Against all odds, she shall survive to the end. The Fire of Life shall burn inside her.'"

Draco latches onto one thing in all that. "Wait a minute, against all odds, she shall survive to the end - that means you'd have been fine anywhere!"

Bloom snaps her head to look at him, goes pale, then a brilliant red color as that sinks in - apparently, she hadn't quite grasped that until he pointed it out. To be fair, though, there was a lot to try and take in.

Lucius immediately decides to find about a dozen people to teach her how to fight with a knife - she looks like she'll need it.

About two hours later, Bloom's in the middle of beating them all to a pulp - she's dodging their attacks, disarming them with relative ease, and practically throwing them around. All without her magic, more or less - they think she might be speeding herself up unconsciously, letting her magic flow through her muscles and make her lighter and faster on her feet. And possibly-accidentally augmenting her strikes with magic, turning a blow that might knock a person back a step into one that would put them through a wall.

The three Malfoy's are staring at the display in varying amounts of shock, and Lucius murmurs to Narcissa "Dumbledore is in so much trouble with this girl."

At the end of the session - Bloom jumped right in, as she said she always learned best hands-on - Bloom's barely gotten a cut on her and all the dozen people, who expected to get beat up a little before the fight started, are covered in bruises all over as they all but limp away. She then suddenly gets a horrified expression, and asks "Wait…won't they talk? Tell people they got beaten up by a fourteen-year-old?"

Lucius shakes his head, and says "They wouldn't dare gossip about the Malfoys."

Draco and Bloom share a look of disbelief - back at school, everyone gossips about everyone who's been in the spotlight recently. Especially about Bloom Jessica Potter.

Case in point: Bloom was found with Mrs. Norris when it was discovered she'd been petrified, and everyone then thought she was the 'Heir of Slytherin' despite the little details that she couldn't have done it since she was preoccupied when it actually happened, she wasn't alive fifty years prior when the Chamber had last been opened, can't speak Parseltongue so she can't control the monster, and she had no connection whatsoever to Slytherin.

Bloom verbally accepts it, if hesitantly, and then Draco offers to go flying with her - she eagerly accepts that. It's become a habit of theirs to go flying together at some point during the day.

Dumbledore's sitting in his office with a smashing migraine - Bloom's still missing, and she apparently knows how to stay well under the radar. Even if we could track her with her magic - which we can't as her wand rejects all foreign magic that's been attempted on it - she'd likely just disappear again.

Then, as luck would have it, Mundungus Fletcher Floos in. "Dumbledore, I've got some news for you. Your still looking for the Potter girl, yes?"

Dumbledore's head snaps up at once, migraine fading already, and asks "You've found her?"

"Think so. People are talking about the Malfoys, gossiping. They say they brought in a dozen people trained in fighting…for a girl. Hair like fire, personality to match, and able to fight all twelve of them without getting more than a scratch or two. Sound familiar?"

No, it sounds exactly like the fiery girl he's been desperately searching for. Dumbledore nods, and says "Good work Mundungus. Have the Ministry heard-"

Fudge's face appears in the fireplace, asking "Dumbledore, have you heard the rumors?! I think the Malfoys have Potter!"

That's a yes, then. Damn!

AN: Hey, everyone! First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR! And thank you everyone for all the reviews! Seriously, it makes my day reading them.

ToJoseLopez2001: YES! Yes, I've figured out a way to turn Daphne from a spirit. But, like you said, I'm not going to spoil it. Everyone is free to guess, though, i love reading what everyone's imagination comes up with - sometimes its better than the original idea I had.

I promised things would get interesting soon, and i try to keep my promises as much as possible - to everyone that was wondering how long i was planning on stretching out the summer break, it'll end soon enough!

Anyway, enjoy! More updates coming soon! I'll try to update once more before i head back to school. Lucky me, it starts on the 13th - everything got pushed back a week due to Hurricane days. Please review!