A few weeks later is the day of the match between Slytherin and Gryffindor.
Bloom has her wand ready just in case of anything like last year - and between Dobby's warning, them not being able to get through the gate to Hogwarts, and she and Harry hearing a creepy voice that says it's going to kill, she's got enough to worry about.
Good news, Draco didn't hurt her side with his little stunt yesterday, and she can see he's got a bruise on his face from where she hit him.
She figures the entire team doesn't want to mess with her if she can get up from the curse Draco used without even wincing as she moved - and that's probably why the whole incident wasn't reported, she has the entire Gryffindor team to back her up, as well as Ron.
The Slytherins aren't exactly known for being honest even half the time, so the teachers would probably believe Bloom.
When the game starts, Bloom's ready for just about anything to go wrong - so she can turn whoever's responsible to ashes.
Her side is a little sore, no surprise, but its healing nicely all things considered.
Harry and Draco get into a verbal fight - which ends the moment Harry notices the Golden Snitch hovering mere inches from Draco's ear!
Harry can't believe Draco is the Seeker if he doesn't notice something like that, and takes the advantage to rush past Draco for the Snitch.
Draco is spun around by the burst of speed, but quickly realizes what Harry's after and follows on his faster broom.
Harry's a natural at riding his broom and maneuvering it - Draco, not so much.
As they keep trying to grab the Snitch, Bloom sees one of the Bludgers suddenly change course and start chasing the Seekers - and it starts giving off the magical aura of a house elf Bloom would very much like to get her hands on.
The Snitch suddenly flies up, and Harry goes after it immediately - Draco hits the stand and breaks his broom over his own head!
Bloom snickers at that, but then focuses on the Bludger again.
Harry nearly grabs the Snitch with his right hand, but the Bludger breaks it - and he manages to grab the little golden ball with his left hand as he falls to the ground.
His fall suddenly slows until he's set gently on the ground, and he feels a warmth that eases the pain in his arm somewhat - it has to be Bloom, she's discreetly using her powers.
People rush over to Harry - Bloom, Ron, and Hermione being the first.
Bloom can immediately tell his arm is broken, nearly as bad as hers was until a few days before - she stayed up late one night and called on the Dragon Flame to heal her arm completely.
It also helped her side a little, but not nearly as much as she would have hoped.
The hole in her side is now about half as big as it was before, but it still really hurts when someone pokes it.
The Bludger goes for him again - but it suddenly goes flying miles away from them all when Bloom hits it with a nearby Beater club.
Bloom is trying to heal Harry through their connection when a new voice says "Stand aside, I'll have his arm fixed in no time!"
Its Lockhart, literally the worst qualified person to do anything that Bloom has ever met.
Harry says "No, not you."
Lockhart laughs and says "You don't know what you're saying. Now, hold still, and I'll have this arm good as new in a jiffy!"
He does a spell, and Harry's arm stops hurting at once - it also stops responding to him trying to move it.
Lockhart nervously says "Well…its certainly more flexible now…"
Bloom angrily says "He's got no bones in it now!"
I knew we should have stopped him Harry!
Bloom, calm down. Before something else blows up!
Before anyone can say anything else, the Bludger comes back fast and hits Bloom hard in the stomach - right next to the hole in her side.
She grabs onto it before it can turn for Harry though, and it keeps struggling to get out of her grip - before suddenly exploding.
Before Lockhart can accidentally remove her organs or turn her inside out trying to heal a bruise, both she and Harry are taken straight to the Hosptial wing.
Madame Pomfrey asks "Bloom and Harry? What are you two…what happened to his arm?!"
Bloom says "Lockhart happened. I swear he can't do anything!"
Harry explains "He tried to heal a broken bone in my arm, he took it out instead."
Bloom can feel the hole in her side throbbing, but she sees Draco sitting on a bed with an icepack on his head and that makes it all a little worth the pain.
Harry has to drink some awful tasting medicine to regrow his arm bones - which Madame Pomfrey immediately tells them will not be a pleasant experience - and she heals the dark purple bruise on Bloom's stomach to light green and yellow.
Bloom says "I've had worse, there's no way anybody can say I haven't had worse than a bruise."
She points to her side for emphasis, good thing Draco was released a few minutes before.
That night, Bloom is on the bed next to Harry and both are still awake.
Bloom used some of her Dragon Fire to speed up Harry's healing and help with the pain some - and, unbelievably, her stomach is barely bruised by now.
She really wasn't kidding when she said she heals fast.
Bloom says "If I ever see that House Elf again, I swear…"
Harry asks "What?"
"The Bludger that hurt both of us was giving off a magical aura almost identical to the one Dobby had."
"How could you tell? I didn't feel anything from him."
"I can, maybe it's because I use a different magic than you. I can sense magical auras and sometimes track them. I'm guessing the spell that makes the Bludger float and fly and attack people messed with Dobby's magical aura, changing it just slightly. Wait, now that I think about it…the gate to the train had a similar aura as well!"
Harry's jaw drops, but then Bloom starts getting mad.
Harry can feel her rage building as she goes over everything they had to do to get to Hogwarts - and then Dobby tries to kill Harry and gets his arm broken then all the bones removed!
Stuff starts rattling and shaking like there's an earthquake, and Harry can see the torches in the hallway flare up six feet high - Bloom's about to go supernova right then and there.
Harry moves closer to Bloom and grabs her hand before the school loses its Hospital wing.
When he squeezes it, she gasps and blushes at the realization that he's holding her hand.
Her anger vanishes in moments, and everything goes back to normal.
Suddenly, they hear the same voice as before - the one that says it is going to kill, it says it has to kill.
It sounds distinctly reptilian, and Bloom and Harry start searching the room for the source - it's still a mystery.
Suddenly, they hear a new but equally unwelcome voice say "Hello!"
It's Dobby, and Harry notices him first because he can understand the creepy voice more clearly.
When Bloom lays eyes on the house elf, still in his burlap sack that even now pulls at their heartstrings a little, she forgets the voice and remembers why she was so angry a moment before.
Just before she can explode and destroy maybe the whole castle, Harry squeezes her hand again and the anger drains away.
Harry's quickly realizing that Draco is in serious danger of causing the entire school to go up in flames if he isn't careful about what he says and does around Bloom - especially when he isn't there to calm her down before something big happens.
Harry asks "Why are you trying to kill me?"
Dobby quickly says "Not kill, I would never kill you. I am trying to get you to leave Hogwarts. History is to repeat itself and you must be safe."
Harry and Bloom look at one another and Bloom asks "Repeat itself? You mean the voice and Filch's cat? This stuff has happened before?"
"Oh no, Dobby shouldn't have said that."
He reaches for Harry's empty bottle of medicine and starts hitting himself hard over the head with it - until Bloom rips it out of his hand and picks up the elf with her other one.
"Listen up Dobby. You got Harry, Ron, and I in huge trouble for having to take the flying car over here and hitting the Willow, I got a hole in my side the size of my fist, and now Harry's arm was broken and then the bone was removed by Lockhart and I got a Bludger to the stomach because you tampered with it. Now, answer the question or I swear I'll throttle you!"
Suddenly, they hear the sounds of teachers coming in - and Dobby clicks his fingers and disappears in a puff of smoke.
Bloom scrambles back into bed and both kids go limp moment before the teachers file in with a new resident of the wing.
It's a first year Gryffindor, who was holding a camera and taking pictures of the Quidditch match.
He's been petrified like Filch's cat, which pretty much takes Harry and Bloom off the suspect list as they were in here ever since the match.
The inside of the kid's camera was fried, they find this out when they open it and smoke comes out.
Professor's Dumbledore and McGonagall are the two teachers who came in, and McGonagall asks "What does this mean?"
Dumbledore answers "It means our students are in terrible danger, the Chamber of Secrets has been opened once again.
Bloom and Harry grow immensely worried, and Bloom says Harry, they know what's going on?!
Sounds like it Bloom, but it also sounds like they can't cause a huge panic.
Yeah, but they have to know what's causing the attacks then, if they know about where it's been all this time.
Somehow, they get some sleep at all - despite the fact that they have more to worry about than the rest of the school aside from the teachers.
AN: Lockhart's just lucky he's a teacher and there were people in the immediate area, or he'd likely have gotten more than just a glare from Bloom - same if Dobby couldn't Apparate on Hogwarts grounds, he was two seconds away from getting a lash of Bloom's magic along with her temper. And, I think we can guess what's going to happen next.
