Sirius and Remus unfreeze when Peter Pettigrew sits up and stares at himself and then Bloom in shock.
They hold him against the wall of the shack, and he squirms to try and get out of their hard grips.
"S-Sirius…R-Remus. My old friends…"
To Bloom, he looks exactly like the kind of person who would sell someone out.
His eyes are watery, his face is round and fat, and his nose is twitching like not all the rat left him when she forced him back into his human form.
Pettigrew's eyes find Harry, and he says "H-Harry! You look so much like your father, James. We were the best of friends, he and I-"
Sirius yells "Shut up, Peter!" and slams the man back into the wall.
"I didn't mean to! The Dark Lord, you have no idea the weapons he possesses! Ask yourself what you would've done Sirius. What would you have done?" Peter demands.
Sirius yells "Died! Died rather than betray my friends! And you should have realized, Peter, even if the Dark Lord didn't kill you…"
Sirius pauses and looks at Remus, who finishes "We would."
Peter looks at everything and everyone.
His eyes land on Ron, and he runs over, saying "Ron! Haven't I been a good friend? A loyal friend? I was your rat…"
Ron backs away in disgust, he wouldn't call Scabbers very loyal.
Considering the fact that Scabbers disappeared for so long, was apparently wandering around the castle, and betrayed Harry's parents - no, he wasn't a very loyal friend.
As for a good friend, that's been Harry, Hermione, and Bloom all along.
Peter sees Ron is not going to save him, and tries for Hermione.
"Sweet girl, clever girl, surely you won't let them…" he trails off when Hermione's disgusted expression leaves his face.
When he turns to Bloom, who's standing in front of Harry, he tries crawling forward - he's seen enough of her powers to not want to get blasted.
"You, your powerful enough to stop them! Surely you wouldn't let them murder a little rat?"
Bloom takes a step backwards, and glares at the man with eyes full of fire.
"You traitorous little rat! You think I want to stop them? You haven't lived with the Dursleys for a day - Harry and I have. They're the worst kind of people, and your every bit as bad as them - yes, I'm powerful enough to stop them, no, I won't."
He finds literally no mercy in her glare.
He does find a whole lot of fire though, and the room starts shaking again.
Pettigrew closes his eyes as hers fill with orange, thinking for sure she's going to turn him to ashes right then and there.
Harry puts a hand on her shoulders, and says "No, we'll take him to Hogwarts."
Everyone stares at him, even Bloom when the pure power fades from her eyes.
Lupin says "Harry, this man-"
"I know what he is. But we'll take him to the castle."
Peter says "Bless you boy, bless you!"
He rushes towards Harry, but Bloom blasts him in the stomach with a ball of fire.
Lupin and Sirius raise eyebrows at that, and Lupin asks "On the train…"
"Yeah, that wasn't hard. Same for the duel Draco and I had last year. Guess who won."
It's not hard, especially with all three of her friends pointing at Bloom.
Harry finishes "I said we'll take you to Hogwarts. After that, the Dementors can have you."
All the blood drains from Pettigrew's face at that, and Bloom is holding fire in her hands that shapes itself to a rope.
She asks "Want me to tie this traitorous little snitch up Harry? We can find out just how well my practice with fire has been going."
The rope turns bright white for an instant, making Pettigrew swear and blubber like a fool that he'll behave.
Because of Bloom's spell, he can't change back into a rat - not until she stops focusing on keeping him in his human form.
Bloom's wand is positively glowing from the inside with fire - and everyone can see a glow in the mouth of the dragon in the tunnels, lighting up the way ahead.
Bloom explains her mission to Remus and Sirius, who thanks her profusely - Peter, on the other hand, just begs and whines until she snaps at him.
She's keeping him in human form, and floating Snape at the same time - but she'll be glad to bind and gag him and float him along as well.
Remus and Sirius are keeping the pathetic man going by threat of spells with their wands pointed at his neck.
He begs to Ron and Hermione again, but both are every bit as disgusted by him now as they were before - and Bloom snaps that if he was a better rat than a man, he's absolutely pathetic and a disgrace to both race of creatures.
Harry sees Sirius staring in wonder at the castle, and he says "Wondrous, isn't it? I'll never forget the first time I walked through those doors. And now, I'll be doing it again - freely. That was a noble thing you did back there. Peter doesn't deserve it."
Harry says "Well, I don't reckon my dad would want his best friends to become murderers over a piece of trash like Pettigrew."
Bloom calls back "And besides: if he's dead, the truth will die with him. With him alive, you'll be free. And, uh, sorry about before."
Sirius smiles and says "You were trying to protect Harry, you'll never have to apologize to me for that. And, I don't know if you know or not, but when Harry was born, I was made his guardian…"
Bloom says "We know."
"I understand if you want to stay with your aunt, uncle, and cousin Harry, but if you ever need a different home and-"
Harry interrupts, asking "Come live with you?"
"I understand if you don't want to-"
Both he and Bloom yell "WHEN?!"
He looks at both in shock, then asks "Wait, Bloom's living with you to?"
Bloom says "The same guy that killed Harry's parents is also apparently responsible for the death of my adoptive parents. So yes, I've been staying with Harry and the rotten excuses for people he's forced to call his aunt, uncle, and cousin."
Sirius looks guilty, and Bloom says "So yes, we'd more than love to stay with you."
Harry grins, until Hermione's voice starts quivering with fear.
"Guys…!"
She points to Remus, who's standing rigidly and with his back to them.
Above his head, the full moon is shining brightly and Remus's fingers are twitching.
Bloom immediately drops Snape on the ground, and starts trying to think up a spell to stop the transformation.
Sirius asks "Remus, old friend, did you take your potion tonight?"
He's trying to calm Remus, and hugs him.
Pettigrew's eyes note the wand that's trembling in Remus's grip, but he doubts it would work on Bloom's spell.
He's been trying ever since she forced him into human form to change back - it's like she put up a wall between him and his ability to change.
Black says "Run. All of you. Now."
None of them do though, and watch as bristles poke through Remus's skin.
"Inside is the man you truly are Remus; this flesh is only flesh." Sirius pounds his old friend on the back hard, trying to snap him out of his transformation.
"The heart is where you live, this heart!"
It doesn't work, and Remus throws Sirius off him and fully transforms into a werewolf.
He approaches the kids, and Bloom's concentration is entirely lost.
Pettigrew turns back into a rat and runs, and the kids crash into Snape - who's waking up now, and Bloom quickly gets behind him to make sure he doesn't see her.
Snape shields them from Remus, and suddenly Sirius leaps onto Remus as a dog and intercepts him.
Sirius keeps pushing Remus back, but Were-Remus is too strong.
Bloom floats a thick branch up and flings it hard enough to get the wolf's attention, and it works.
The wolf turns to them and away from a heavily injured Sirius-dog, when suddenly a howl cuts through the air.
Remus-wolf pauses, and the howl cuts in again.
Remus goes after the howl and Bloom makes an illusion so Snape won't see her Charmix form.
The dog rises and falls, again and again - each time becoming more human.
Harry and Bloom sprint over to Sirius, and find him fully human and lying on the ground covered in scratches and bites.
He's breathing heavily and bleeding almost as bad.
Bloom lays her hands on Sirius's chest, and says "Hold still, Sirius."
She starts glowing orange, mending the wounds on Sirius's body.
Suddenly, before Bloom's even a third of the way through, they both feel a piercing cold.
It's the Dementors, but this time Bloom can fight back.
Harry nearly passes out instantly, except Bloom is pouring her power through all three of them now.
She's flooding herself with power, and sharing it with Sirius and Harry.
Harry blacks out, and Sirius is on the edge of death, but Bloom stubbornly refuses to collapse.
Bloom suddenly sees a ball of silver slowly rising, almost like its caught in a tug of rope game, from Sirius's mouth - its quivering and sinking and rising randomly, and it sinks a good inch when Bloom pours more magic into Sirius.
In desperation, she shares a bit of the fire that's always burning in her chest now with Sirius and Harry both - and then two great Patronuses appear, a stag and a Phoenix.
They drive away all the Dementors, good thing to - Bloom was just getting ready to unleash all her fire to drive them away.
She doesn't know if it would have been any good - but she didn't have any other choice either.
When she shared her fire, her Dragon Fire, with Harry and Sirius, she only gave them a small piece each - but it was more than enough to pull the ball of silver that Bloom thinks is Sirius's soul back into his mouth.
Now Bloom changes back and passes out - she's definitely going to have to get something to eat.
*Hospital Wing, 11:50 pm*
When Harry wakes in the Hospital Wing, there's a curtain surrounding the bed. He draws it away to find Ron sitting in bed with a bandaged leg and Hermione pacing.
Bloom is unconscious but seems like she might wake soon - there's also a lot of food on her bed.
Harry has a few bars of chocolate on his bed, which he eats because he knows Bloom will insist on it.
Bloom, wake up. Please, wake up.
Bloom suddenly stirs, and sits up - almost like he drew her back.
She sees the massive amount of food on her bed and immediately starts eating - and Harry's sure she did something powerful then.
"Bloom, what happened?"
"I don't know Harry. I really don't know what happened. I was keeping you two alive, guess I can fight the Dementor's influence with my own magic - and I was going to try driving them back. But then, two Patronuses appeared across the lake and drove them away."
She shrugs, but Hermione says "Listen, whoever they were, we've got bigger problems! They've captured Sirius. Any minute now, the Dementor's are going to perform the Kiss on him!"
Bloom instantly shudders, she's pretty sure she's going to have nightmares about the image she just got for the rest of her life.
Hermione explains "It's what Dementors do to those they want to destroy. They clamp their jaws over the victim's mouth and suck out their soul."
Bloom and Harry go sheet white at the thought, Bloom feeling a mix of horror and absolute disgust at the mere idea, and both think they'll kill Sirius.
It's worse though, you go on living - but your empty.
You have no memories, no sense of self - you're an empty shell.
It's one of the worst fates Bloom can imagine, but then Professor Dumbledore comes in.
AN: Sorry I haven't been updating as frequently as I was, but it takes a bit longer now - especially when I'm reformatting another story at the same time. As for this one, what do you think Bloom sharing her Fire with Sirius and Harry did? It kept Sirius alive, that's certain, any guesses on what else might happen because of it though? Keep reading, the answer will be revealed eventually! No spoilers!