Sure enough, Bloom is in class the next morning - though, she barely makes it in on time for a change.
Harry can feel his side tighten when she sits down - her injury.
Hermione gapes at her, but Bloom shrugs and whispers "Its fine, I can take some pain Hermione."
Ron winces in sympathy, and Harry asks "You're sure you can make it through classes?"
Bloom silently nods, and then Professor Lockhart begins the lesson.
He reveals a cage of pixies in the cage on the table next to him - and then he releases them on the entire class.
A few manage to fly out the door - but most of them swarm around the classroom and cause total havoc. Lockhart tries to stop them, but they steal his wand and he is absolutely useless.
Bloom figures there's one simple way to take care of these pests - they're much more annoying than the ones from the Magical Dimension, but they mostly just cause mischief and pranks that get out of hand - and that way is scaring them.
Most of the students have run out of the classroom by now - and only she, Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Lockhart are left - and Lockhart hides in the closet.
Bloom starts glowing orange, and suddenly lets out a wave of magic that sends all the pixies to the floor.
Bloom gets dizzy for a moment, and all the pixies are stunned.
Some of the students look around the corner to see small blue bodies everywhere and Hermione steadying Bloom while Lockhart peeks out of the closet warily.
Later, the Gryffindor team is heading out to the Quidditch field for practice, and Bloom is watching from the side.
Now Harry knows why she tried to stay with him as much as possible - other than the fact that they're her only close friends in the school, which is what she said - she really takes her mission to protect him seriously, something he doesn't mind too much.
The Slytherin team comes out as well, and hands Wood a note explaining how they have a new seeker.
Wood was hostile before, but he's more peaceful when he sees they aren't just taking the field for no reason and without permission.
And the new seeker for the Slytherin team is none other than Draco Malfoy!
His father also bought the entire team new Nimbus 2001's, which are much faster than the Nimbus 2000 Harry has.
He starts rubbing it in Gryffindor's faces that his father is so much richer than everyone else's - only to spin around when Bloom clears her throat behind them.
"Big deal, so you're a spoiled rich kid who gets whatever he wants. You've never had to work for anything a day in your life - that proves what exactly?"
Draco sneers at Bloom, who doesn't seem impressed in the slightest.
"Oh, and what do you think you're going to do? The mystery girl is going to teach me a lesson, oh I'm so scared. Nobody's allowed to use magic outside of class - the difference is, I'm not afraid to break the rules."
He holds his wand up to the crook of Bloom's neck, thinking up a curse to use on her.
Bloom doesn't seem impressed or scared in the slightest - they don't know she can absolutely use her fairy powers on them outside of class, except that would blow her cover entirely - and gives him a glare full of fire.
"Yeah, the spoiled rich kid whose daddy will protect him from every consequence of his actions. Grow up and live in the real world, Malfoy."
Draco's blood runs cold as shivers rack his spine at her glare - he's treading on dangerous ground here, trying to intimidate her and losing hard.
Instead of answering, he uses the curse he thought up and she goes flying and lands on the ground hard.
Ron tries to curse him with 'eat slugs' - but it backfires on him, the Willow nearly broke his wand altogether when they hit it.
All the Slytherin team kids laugh cruelly, which instantly stops when Bloom taps Draco on the shoulder a moment after.
All their mouths drop open, and she punches him in the face hard enough to send him to the ground.
"Yeah, about being too scared to break the rules. I'm not, but I don't have to break them either."
Draco spits blood on the ground and wipes at a bloody nose before glaring balefully at her - then thinks better of it when she glares back at him.
Harry and Bloom take Ron to Hagrid's hut to see what can be done about him barfing up slugs - but the only thing they can do is give him a bucket to put them until he stops - which takes several hours.
Later that night, Harry is serving detention for hitting the Whomping Willow by helping Professor Lockhart answer his fan mail.
It's been four hours in, and then he starts hearing a creepy voice that sounds evil and dangerous - it says it's going to kill.
Lockhart says he's hearing things because he's tired - then looks at the clock and realizes how long they've been going.
He dismisses Harry, who walks right into Bloom a few minutes later.
"Harry! Do you hear something?"
"Like a creepy voice saying it's going to kill someone?"
"Yes, exactly. I can only hear it faintly, through our connection I'm guessing, but you probably hear it clearly."
"Yes, like its perfect English. Do you hear it now?"
"Wait…yeah, much clearer. Probably because we're close together now. Let's follow it and see where it leads."
They take off running, and soon bump into Ron and Hermione.
After filling them in on the weird voice, they travel a few corridors only to find Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, petrified and hanging from a light by her tail.
On the wall, there's words written in blood about how Slytherin's heir returning to Hogwarts.
Teachers and students file in moments later and discover all four students staring in shocked silence at the scene.
Filch immediately thinks they did it, but Dumbledore saves them with the 'innocent until proven guilty' excuse.
All four kids gratefully return to the dormitory - and Bloom has a very bad feeling about who the heir of Slytherin might be.
She has two suspects in mind: Draco, if the message is for someone relatively new to the school, and Voldemort if the message is about him coming back to the school after so many years.
Neither of the possibilities make her feel any better about the other - but there's no way to know for sure.
AN: Sorry about the short chapter, along with hurting Bloom so badly. I really didn't think it was fair that they had to drive all the way from the train station because they couldn't get to the train only to get in massive trouble because of an accident that only happened because of a House Elf trying to keep Harry safe. Bloom heals fast though, and she's not about to let anything get in the way of her mission - or her schoolwork. PS. anybody think Draco should be getting scared of her by now?