A few weeks later, in Charms class, they're learning to levitate objects - feathers, right now.
The incantation is Wingardium Leviosa, and if they don't pronounce it right something could explode.
Everyone starts chanting, and about half of them are getting it right.
Combined with a swish-and-flick movement of their wands, the feathers should float up to the ceiling.
Ron is saying 'Wingardium Leviosur' and Hermione leans over to correct him.
He is seriously frustrated and challenges her to do it.
Bloom says "Ease up Ron, Hermione's only trying to help. Your feather might explode if you say the chant wrong, you know."
"Alright, both of you do it! Come on then!"
Bloom and Hermione look at one another, then take out their wands. Hermione's is dark green and in a continuous vine pattern.
Bloom's is even more unique, hers is carved in the shape of a dragon and is deep orange-red. The dragon's mouth is open, so it looks like its spitting spells when she uses it, and the body fades into the handle where she holds it.
It's literally the most unique wand in the entire school, but nobody else dares try it after Draco started teasing her about it and snatched it up and jokingly waved it around.
Most wands make a moderate amount of damage - Bloom's caused a massive explosion that knocked Draco on his butt and left his hair scorched and singed and his robe covered in soot.
Bloom immediately snatched the wand back up and yelled at him for being so idiotic as to wave another person's wand.
She heard what could happen from Mrs. Faragonda, so it's no surprise to her that her wand would have such an extreme reaction.
The two girls do the swish-and-flick motion they've been practicing for the past few weeks and chant together "Wingardium Leviosa!"
Both feathers rise into the air at the same time, and everyone stops to look.
Professor Flitwick says "Oh, Bloom and Hermione have done it!"
Draco looks up at the feathers like it's a challenge - particularly, at Bloom's feather.
Bloom gets the impression he thinks she's his rival or something, along with Harry.
It's like the two of them wounded his pride when Harry said he wouldn't join him and Bloom challenged him.
After class, Ron's ranting to Harry. "Honestly, that girl is a nightmare! It's leviosa, not leviosur, it's no wonder she doesn't have any friends."
Hermione suddenly pushes past them both, and Harry mutters "I think she heard you Ron."
Suddenly, Bloom says "The entire hall heard him, Harry. Great going Ron! Wait up Hermione!"
Bloom takes off after Hermione, moving through the crowd easily despite the crowded space.
Ron mutters "What is her deal anyway?"
Harry shrugs, and they keep trying to get through the crowd.
That night, they realize its Halloween when they see the Jack-o-Lanterns floating everywhere.
Bloom and Hermione still haven't shown back up, and a girl named Parvati Patil says "I heard Hermione was in the girl's restroom all day - crying. Bloom's been in there trying to console her."
Suddenly, Quirrell runs in frantically and yells ""TROLL! T-TROLL IN THE DUNGOEN!"
Everyone stops dead, the silence is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
"Thought you might want to know." He then falls over in a dead faint, and the room erupts into screaming.
Dumbledore yells louder than everyone else "SILLLLEEEEENNNCCCCEEE!"
Everyone immediately stops, and he continues. "Everyone will please not panic. Now, Prefects will please lead their houses back to the dormitories. All the teachers will follow me into the dungeons."
Percy is leading Gryffindor down a hall, when suddenly Harry stops dead.
He pulls Ron to the side, who says "What's wrong Harry?"
"How could I have forgotten? Bloom and Hermione! They don't know about the troll!"
They sneak away from the group, and start running down corridors.
They enter one, when they hear a grunting noise.
They get in a doorway just as a large, gray, troll comes down the hallway.
It enters a room, and Ron whispers "Its heading into the Girls' Bathroom!"
Harry tenses up, worried for Hermione and Bloom.
In the Girls' Bathroom, Bloom finally manages to coax Hermione out of the stall.
She comes out sniffling and wiping her eyes.
"There, there. Stop it now Hermione. You know Ron's a real jerk."
Hermione nods, and Bloom pulls her into a loose hug. "So why do you let him get to you?"
"I don't know, but…" Hermione trails off, staring at something behind Bloom.
Bloom turns around, to see a huge troll with a large club standing behind them.
They quickly back into the stall just as the troll smashes the upper part of the stalls.
Bloom unfreezes and drags Hermione through all of them - and her panic and fear is making her magic lash out, good thing the troll is destroying so much stuff with its club that Hermione doesn't notice the tiny explosions happening around the troll, or the way broken pieces of stall are starting to shake like they're in an earthquake.
Suddenly, Harry and Ron burst in, and Harry tries to hit the troll with a spell. "Bloom, Hermione, MOVE!"
Bloom yells "No kidding! Everybody get out of here!"
Bloom sees her chance and pushes Hermione toward the door while throwing a good-sized hunk of sink at the troll to get its attention - it works.
Harry yells "WHAT?!"
"Go, I'll get out in a moment!"
She yells "Incendio!" and a ball of fire shoots out of the mouth of her dragon-wand.
The Troll is well and truly focused on her, and nearly hits her with its club - she levitates it and carries the troll up with it before it loses its grip.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione nearly get squashed when it lands and stumbles back, so they have no choice but to get out.
Now that they're all gone, Bloom can release a little of the magic raging through her - it's a miracle nothing more than a few explosions and some shaking has happened just yet.
She takes control of the club and uses it to smash the troll in the head hard enough to break the club - and accidentally sends every piece of broken stall shards into the troll as well.
The energy in her system fades just as Professors McGonagall, Snape, and Quirrell burst in.
Their jaws all drop when they see the unconscious troll on the floor and Bloom pointing her wand at them like they're another one.
When she realizes it's the Professors and not another threat on her life, she immediately drops her wand to the ground and apologizes.
Professor McGonagall says "The fact that you thought we were another threat to you is understandable, but how did you manage to defeat a full-grown troll on your own? And why are there pieces of the stalls embedded in its skin?"
"I levitated its club, then dropped it on its head. The stall pieces suddenly flew up, I must've done it by accident."
They can see that; the club is split in two and there's a lump the size of a person's head on the troll's head - and it's got a good-sized shard of one of the stalls sticking out of its arm.
Snape says "The three young students outside said you told them to leave."
"Yes, I got cornered by it. They were by the door, I didn't want them getting hurt trying to save me."
She looks down, and Professor McGonagall says "Well, that is an admirable thing to do, but it was also very foolish for yourself. And why were you fighting the troll in the first place?"
Bloom says "Hermione and I were in here when the troll burst in, Harry and Ron tried to save us - and then we got separated by the troll."
Ron, Harry, and Hermione are looking around the corner in shock at the troll - the unconscious troll with a lump as big as a person's head.
Bloom looks down at the floor again, and notices a long gash on his leg - it must be fresh, its dripping blood down his leg.
Her eyes get huge, and then Snape notices her stare and covers his leg.
Professor Quirrell stammers "Perhaps you want to go…m-might wake up…"
They all leave, and the teachers get the troll out of the castle.
Harry says "That troll is going to have the worst headache of its life when it wakes up. How'd you hit it that hard?"
"Well, I can't really explain it. Magic, stuff happens." Bloom's answer is vague and cagey, but she looks pretty shook up from the troll attacking them.
AN: Oops, looks like Harry, Ron, and Hermione are getting suspicious. Bloom can't fully control the Dragon Flame's power because she doesn't know about it - she's just lucky they didn't notice stuff rattling, guess a troll makes for a decent distraction and explanation for stuff like that. Also, had she known about the Oppungo spell, she would have used it as an excuse - except they haven't learned it yet in DADA class.