Just two days before Harry and Bloom are leaving for Hogwarts again, Vernon has an important dinner guest over.
Bloom and Harry are supposed to stay in their room and pretend they don't exist - which makes the fireplace flare up feet higher when Bloom hears that.
Harry quietly dragged her away before she could explode at his uncle - he really isn't worth it, and they have to stay here over the summer until they're eighteen.
Bloom angrily whispers "Fine, let them have their dinner. And let them clean all the dishes as well. We'll be having our own feast, and we won't be sharing with any of them."
Harry nods, and they lock the door behind them.
They can hear the sounds of eating and talking going on under their feet, Bloom glares at the floor balefully - she's had more than enough of the Dursleys for now.
They treat Harry terribly, the only reason he's had a decent summer is because she's there and really scary when she needs to be.
Suddenly, a new voice says "Harry Potter, an honor it is…who's she?"
When they turn around, they see a house elf standing there and looking confusedly at Bloom.
"I'm Bloom, who are you?"
"Dobby, miss. Dobby the house elf. I am here to warn Harry that he must not go back to Hogwarts this year as terrible things are about to happen. Harry must be kept safe."
Harry says "Dobby, Hogwarts is our home. You don't know what it's like with the Dursleys, they're absolutely awful. I don't think I'll stay sane if I have to stay here until next year after getting away from them. I may have nearly died, but I was treated as a regular person and not as a virtual-slave."
Dobby looks down for a moment, and says "Dobby is sorry the great Harry Potter is in near the same situation as he is, but he cannot allow Harry to go back to Hogwarts."
Bloom says "Dobby, if you're in the same kind of situation as Harry is when he's here - with these horrible excuses for people, no offense Harry but they are - then why do you want him to stay here? I can protect him, I have before."
Dobby says "Not from this. If you will not heed Dobby's warning, then Dobby will make it so you cannot go to Hogwarts this year." H
e runs to the door, but finds Bloom put a locking spell on it.
She had a feeling Vernon might try to stop them from leaving, or make it impossible for them to leave by taking their wands or something, so she tried out a few spells on various things in the room.
On the cupboard with their wands, she spelled it so only she and Harry can get in without getting a massively burned hand - she told Vernon that way nobody would get a moment of utter stupidity and kill themselves by accidentally waving the wrong item around, she secretly told Harry it was so Vernon couldn't hold the wands hostage.
On the door, she put a spell that kept anything on one side of the door on that same side - which means Dobby can't teleport out.
Bloom grabs Dobby by the thin rags he's wearing - it's nothing more than a burlap sack than anything that can be called clothes.
Harry feels more than a little sympathy for Dobby right then, he had to wear similar things before Hogwarts came into his life - and Bloom, who can make just about anything.
The sound-proofing is wearing off from the floor, but as long as Dobby doesn't bang anything down it should be alright - of course, Dobby goes crazy when he realizes he can't get to the hallway and starts banging his head on the wall when Harry tells him to be quiet.
Bloom and Harry both try to quiet him, worried about what Vernon will try to do because of the noise.
Dobby disappears, eventually, but the damage was done - as they find out when Vernon comes banging on the door.
"I thought I told you two to keep it down in there!"
Bloom quickly says "A bird flew in the window, we were getting it out - it was going nuts!"
The last part is technically true, Dobby was going nuts trying to keep them from going to Hogwarts.
Bloom doesn't think Vernon is convinced, but he doesn't say another word.
They leave the door unlocked that night, trying to show they have nothing to hide - but they find the door locked and bars on the windows the next morning.
Harry says "Uh-oh. Looks like Uncle Vernon wasn't happy about all the noise. Bloom?"
Harry starts fiddling with the handle, but it won't open and he gets the feeling it wouldn't do any good anyway.
Bloom starts looking at the window, and sees the bars are completely welded to the frame.
She scowls, and says "Should have done something about these people two months ago - why do they even want us to stay anyway? They hate us!"
Harry says "Yeah, I know. They hate us, but I think they also envy us - we can do things they can't even dream of."
"Yeah, like blow these bars out of the wall just by thinking about it. Let's get packed, I'll make a bunch of food for us to eat, you start getting stuff. Let's leave as soon as we can."
Harry nods, and starts grabbing his clothes out of the closet they're sharing.
He never had much clothes to begin with until he got Hogwarts robes - Bloom packed all her clothes really well - she also did a spell on their closet as a test, it made it so it could hold all their stuff.
Bloom is making a feast of snacks and sandwiches for them to share on the way to the train station - Harry gets the feeling it'll drain her more than she'll admit.
In maybe five hours, all their stuff is packed and they've stuffed themselves full - but Bloom needs to rest for a bit, she did drain herself.
Their problem is they really have nowhere they can go - and neither of them know how they're supposed to contact any of their friends in time.
Suddenly, they hear the engine of a car above the house, and look up to see a flying car with three familiar faces.
Harry and Bloom break out into huge grins, and Bloom jokingly says "We'll trade you food for a ride to your place!"
Ron laughs and asks "They're trying to keep you from leaving?"
Both nod at the same time, and Bloom says "We've got all our stuff ready, it was a matter of where we could go until we get on the train."
Harry says "And the part she isn't mentioning is the part where she drained herself preparing for this. She made us a bunch of food - which is why we haven't been going hungry this summer."
They attach a chain to the bars, but the car doesn't have enough power to pull it out.
Bloom says "I really hope your brothers can keep a secret Ron. Can they?"
Fred and George say "Absolutely!"
Bloom says "I'm serious, guys! Can you keep a very big secret or not?"
They can see she is, and Ron seals their silence by saying "If Draco finds out we all know and he doesn't he'll have a heart attack. Keep it quiet until Bloom shows everyone."
They nod, and Fred says "Alright, you've got our silence Bloom. Say, can this have any pranking applications?"
"I'll tell you later. Right now, stay as far back as you can from these bars."
They all move far away from the pieces of metal, and Bloom grabs the two middle ones.
She focuses for a moment, then pushes forward - the entire window frame explodes outward.
Fred and George are staring open-mouthed at her, Bloom doesn't really care at the moment.
She and Harry float their stuff up into the trunk of the car, but Vernon heard the massive bang - it's amazing the entire street isn't outside right now.
He slams the door open just as Bloom gives Harry a leg up into the car - she insisted he go first.
Vernon grabs her ankle just as Harry pulls her up - it's like she's a rope in tug-of-war.
"Fred, George, I really hope you can keep this secret! Charmix!"
She's surrounded by fire for an instant, then slams her boot into Vernon's face to make him let her go.
Because of the magic active in her system, a small explosion happens that sends Vernon on his butt feet away and Bloom into the backseat of the car.
As they get on the way, Bloom is immensely enjoying the feeling of the wind through her hair and wings - she's been going stir-crazy staying inside for so long.
Fred asks "Your…you're a…"
"Fairy, yes. It's a very long story, where're we headed?"
George stammers "O-o-our place…"
All three are gawking at her, Harry can only imagine what the reaction in the Feast hall would have been like if Bloom had this outfit on instead of her robes.
Bloom blushes a bit, but says "The outfit's actually for a sixteen-year-old person, just wait."
Her face instantly turns red, and she says "I'm twelve now, most fairies get their transformations at sixteen or so."
Now, Harry's face turns bright red as he imagines her at sixteen and in this outfit - until Bloom nudges him in the ribs and says "I'm not sixteen yet Harry, so relax. You guys mind if I stretch my wings? It feels like it's been forever!"
Fred and George are speechless, having succumbed to their gawking, but Ron manages "Yeah, go ahead…"
He's staring as well, Harry told him about this, but seeing it is another thing entirely.
She immediately jumps over the side and soars up into the clouds above them.
When she comes back down a few minute later, her hair is damp and she looks like she's having a great time.
Harry reaches out to her and they touch fingers for an instant.
Bloom yells "Watch this, guys!"
She leaves her hand sticking out like she's trailing water, and a trail of orange starts floating behind her fingers.
Harry grins and says "Wish I could fly like that."
Ron asks "You think she ever even tried to learn how to ride a broomstick?"
Harry shrugs, not knowing that answer at all.
When they get to the Weasley's house, it looks much-loved and much-lived-in.
It's called the Burrow, according to Ron - the only one of the three brothers who can speak coherently.
Mrs. Weasley comes in and starts yelling at the three boys for being gone so long, then softens when they tell her how the Dursleys had Harry and Bloom basically jailed in their room.
She also looks at the two of them for the first time and has to sit down from the shock of seeing Bloom in her Charmix form.
Mr. Weasley comes in a moment later and says "Well, hello Bloom. Fancy seeing you here."
Mrs. Weasley and her sons all look at him and she asks "You know her?"
"Ministry business."
Mrs. Faragonda told her that Dumbledore would tell some people he trusts implicitly about Bloom and her role - and apparently Mr. Weasley is one of those people.
Under his wife's glare, he comes clean about everything he knows of her.
Fred and George ask "So, you're supposed to be seventeen?"
"Yeah, that's right. Why?"
At their stares at her, she turns bright red and says "Oh, right. My Charmix outfit."
Before she can turn back to her human form, a new voice asks "Mom, where's my jumper?"
"Over here, Ginny."
When Ginny looks over, she immediately faints from the shock of seeing a celebrity and something that was only ever a myth to her before.
When she wakes up, Bloom's sitting beside her looking normal and apologizes for the shock and explains everything to her.
AN: If anyone really wants to see Bloom reunited with her friends, I might make a sequel to this story. If anyone has ideas, pass them along!