Bloom is in a room with the other three champions, and Dumbledore rushes in and grabs her shoulders.
"Bloom, did you put your name in the Goblet?"
Bloom stares at him like she can't believe he's asking this, and says "No! And I didn't ask for someone else to put my name in either! I didn't even want to compete in the first place, ask Harry, Ron, and Hermione! Take me out of this Professor! I don't care if you put me in detention for the rest of the year if you want, I didn't ask for this and I don't want it!"
Maxime says "She's obviously lying. Who wouldn't want eternal glory?"
Bloom snorts derisively, and says "No offense ma'am, but eternal glory won't be much of a consolation when your dead. Besides, I've risked my life three times in as many years. My friends and I actually hoped for a quiet year this year."
Dumbledore drops her and Moody says "Well, one thing's for sure: the Goblet of Fire is an exceptionally powerful magical object, and only an exceptionally powerful conjurer could have hoodwinked it."
Igor says "You seem to have given this quite a bit of thought Alastor."
"My job was to think like a dark wizard, in case you've forgotten."
Cedric says "Well, it seems that Bloom here is exceptionally powerful. Just putting that out there."
Bloom glares at him, and says "Except I've been saying all along that I didn't even want to do this thing. Check my wand, talk to my friends, talk to anyone who's been in earshot of me around the room that had the Goblet in it for the past few days."
Fleur asks "What's with the fire? It seems unusually high."
Dumbledore says "In any case, according to Mr. Crouch, the rules are absolute. The Goblet of Fire constitutes a binding magical contract. As of tonight, Ms. Bloom is a tri-wizard champion."
Bloom smacks her hand to her face, then buries it in both hands.
Fleur asks her "Is your name really Bloom?" "Yes Fleur, my name really is Bloom."
"Why no last name?"
"Does it really matter? Your friends all call you by your first name only, right?"
Fleur nods, and Bloom says "Well, everybody calls me by my first name only. It's no big deal."
Suddenly, a Phoenix appears and flies over to Bloom.
"Fyra!" Bloom starts petting Fyra, who rubs her head against the side of Bloom's.
Fleur and Viktor stare in shock, but it calms Bloom down a lot.
"Y-you have a phoenix?"
Everybody but Crouch, Dumbledore, and Cedric are shocked speechless, and Bloom nods.
"Her name's Fyra, if you didn't guess. Also, Viktor may have seen her at the World Cup."
When Bloom gets back to the Gryffindor common room, Ron wants to know how she did it.
When she doesn't answer, just stares into the fire gloomily, he says "Fine, don't tell. Would have been nice to tell your best friends though."
Bloom suddenly whirls around and yells "I didn't do anything Ron!"
She gets up and starts pacing, yelling "I didn't put my name in the cup of fire, I didn't ask someone to put my name in that cup of fire - how the hell did my name get in that cup of fire?!"
Seamus Finnegan coughs and says "Goblet."
Bloom whirls on Seamus and says "I'm not going for technicalities here Seamus!"
She keeps pacing, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione notice the fire is slowly getting higher.
"I didn't ask for this, I don't want this, why the hell did somebody put my name in the fire and somehow enter me in the tournament?"
Harry whispers "Hermione…"
He points to the fire again, which looks like it's about one yell from Bloom away from shooting to the sky.
Hermione nods and takes Bloom to their dorm.
The next day, a woman appears in a puff of smoke with a load of paper and a quill.
She's well-groomed and very colorful - she's Rita Skeeter, from the Daily Prophet.
Bloom's with the other three champions, and groans inwardly.
You've got to be kidding me…
Skeeter starts with the youngest of the champions - Bloom.
She tries to pick Bloom apart, making stuff up that will get more people to read - but it's when Bloom sees the quill write something about her unknown past that she loses her cool.
She yells "You don't know anything about me lady, so stop making this crap up to please your readers!" and grabs the paper the quill had been writing on.
When she turns around, she's holding a sheet of paper - when the other three champions see her slam the door shut, ash is falling from her fingers.
Cedric wisely takes a step backwards to make a path to the door, but they're distracted by the sound of Rita peeking out of the closet she's doing interviews in to see the door slam open and shut on its own.
Rita whispers "She certainly has a temper, hasn't she?"
All three nod, and Cedric looks at the ashes that fell from Bloom's hand.
That afternoon, Harry and Bloom get a letter from Sirius - but it's not with Hedwig.
The Ministry's been intercepting owls more and more now, and Hedwig is too recognizable, so he sent a different one.
He tells them he needs to talk to them face to face, and to meet him in the Gryffindor coming room Saturday alone - and the bird bites.
It tries to bite Bloom, but she gives it the fiercest look of its life and it cowers down.
Harry puts an arm around her, trying to calm her at all.
It doesn't really work, but it's nice to know that at least one person doesn't think she put her name in the Goblet.
*Gryffindor Common Room*
The next morning, the newspaper has the headline 'CHAMPIONS SELECTED' running across the front page.
Bloom reads three lines and sees the words 'mysterious past and powers' and crumples it up and throws it into the fireplace in absolute disgust.
Sirius's face suddenly appears in the fireplace, and he looks worried.
"Bloom, Harry, I don't have much time. I have to know, did you put your name in the Goblet, Bloom?"
She's just about to explode from being asked that question, but takes a deep breath and says "No, I didn't put my name in the Goblet."
"I had to ask, now, about this dream you both had. Also, your spell works great, Bloom."
Harry and Bloom explain it, and Sirius looks worried about the mystery boy.
"You didn't catch a name?"
"No, Voldemort was giving him a job to do. Something important."
Harry shrugs, and Sirius asks what it was.
Bloom bites her lip, and says "Me. He wanted me. But it was just a dream, right?"
Sirius doesn't know, but says "Yes, it was just a dream. Look, the Death-Eaters at the World Cup and your name rising out of the Goblet aren't just coincidences - Hogwarts isn't safe anymore."
Harry asks "What do you mean?"
"I mean the devils are in the school Harry. Igor Karkaroff was a Death-Eater, and nobody ever stops being a Death-Eater. And Barty Crouch, heart of stone, sent his own son to Azkaban."
Bloom asks "You think one of them put my name in the Goblet?"
Whoever it is, she's going to have to find them alone at some point.
"I haven't a clue who put it in Bloom, but be careful. People die in this Tournament."
Harry and Bloom share a glance, but there's really nothing they can do.
A door opens, and Sirius's face disappears. Ron walks in and asks "Who were you talking to?"
Bloom says "Nobody."
She's still boiling with anger, anger at the whole situation and how incredibly ridiculous it is.
"I heard voices, three voices."
Ron looks suspicious, but says "Your probably just practicing for your next interview."
Bloom's face turns red with her anger, but doesn't say a word - the fireplace blazing up says enough though.
At the lake, Bloom is sitting in a tree with Harry on the ground and Neville in a book.
It's called 'Magical Plants of the Highland Lochs' and both are sure they've never seen it before.
Professor Moody gave it to him when they had tea, maybe he's not quite so bad after all.
Bloom and Harry can both see wanting your students to know what they might face - and maybe his extreme methods are a side-effect of the war he fought in.
Ron and Hermione come walking up, and Hermione says "We've been through dozens of people Ron, why can't you just tell her yourself?"
Ron whispers something to Hermione, who says "You know she's just angry at the world Ron, not you specifically for everything. Ugh, fine. What is it you want me to say again?"
Ron whispers in Hermione's ear again, and then walks over to the tree.
"Bloom, Ron says Seamus told him Dean was told by Parvati that Hagrid was looking for you."
Bloom glares out at the lake a moment more, then says "Okay, I'll be there in a minute. I just don't want to burn the whole forest down."
Hermione nods and turns to leave.
Ron sighs in relief, and whispers "Thanks Hermione. She's really scary when she's angry enough. You have no idea."
Later, Bloom and Hagrid are walking through a dark forest - and it hasn't escaped Bloom's notice that he's carrying a big, red flower and his hair is brushed back.
She can guess well enough what that means, and, sure enough, Olympe Maxime is standing on a ridge - good thing Bloom's under her invisibility spell.
Hagrid shows them the dragons for the first trial, and Bloom's heart sinks.
Hagrid says they're seriously misunderstood creatures - but the massive jet of flames makes even him say the Hungarian Horntail is a nasty piece of work.
Ron nearly fainted when he saw it - surprising Bloom plenty, apparently Ron helped his brother Percy bring them in.
Bloom whispers "Thanks Hagrid, I've got to go tell someone something."
She takes off running, taking the invisibility spell of when nobody's around and she's out of the forest.
She slows to a fast walk when she gets to the school courtyard, and notices people are wearing pins on their robes.
When the face is Cedric's, there's a yellow background and it says 'Cedric Rules' - when the face is hers, there's a green background and it says 'Bloom stinks!'
People hurl insults, but Bloom blocks them out and tries to find Cedric.
She finds him on the steps, and two kids are blocking the way.
One asks "Like the pin?"
"Yeah, looks great on you. Now move, unless you want the kid who rules to meet a very horrible end in the first trial."
The kid's eyes go wide, and he says "You're going to kill him!"
"No, you idiot! I'm saving his life!"
Bloom pushes past, and Cedric is looking at her curiously.
"What is it?"
"Dragons, one for each of us. That's the first trial Cedric."
Cedric's eyes go huge, and he asks "Are you serious? That's the first trial? Do Fleur and Krum-"
"Yes, we all do."
"Right, thanks. And listen, I've asked people to stop wearing the pins."
Bloom laughs and says "Cedric, if a few pins and insults was enough to take me down, I wouldn't have survived long enough to get to here."
Bloom walks off, and Draco is sitting on the branch of a tree and calls out "Why so tense, Bloom? My father and I have a bet, you see. I think you won't last ten minutes in the first trial. He thinks you won't last five."
Draco laughs, until he notices Bloom's glare - he's really crossed the line now.
"I don't give a damn what you or your father think, Malfoy! And besides, if I won't last five minutes, you wouldn't last five seconds, you pathetic little snake!"
Everybody is staring after her shouting, and Draco tries to hit her with a spell from behind.
She dodges it, but Moody turns him into a ferret right after.
Bloom whirls around to face the tree, and shouts "Where is he?"
She sees the white ferret sitting on the tree, and yells "You'd better get your furry legs moving, Malfoy! I'm gonna drop-kick you all the way to the moon!"
She shoots up the tree, and Draco apparently takes her seriously.
He scuttles down the tree as fast as his legs will carry him, and then suddenly Professor McGonagall comes out just as Bloom catches Malfoy by the tail and holds him up to her eyelevel while he squirms and thrashes frantically.
She asks Moody "Is that a student Bloom's holding?"
Moody has to hold back some laughter, and says "Technically, it's a ferret."
"Did you change him?!"
"Yes, right after he cast a spell at Bloom's back. Technically, she hasn't broken any rules. Something might get broken though."
Moody changes Draco back, and suddenly Bloom's holding the bottom of his robes.
"Put me down! My father will hear of this!"
Bloom puts him down alright, throwing him to the ground in a sore heap.
Moody motions for Bloom to follow him to his office - along with Harry, who's calming her down.
AN: Bloom's not ungrateful or anything, just really tired of people trying to kill her in various horrible ways. As for Draco there, you'd think he'd learn to not get to her - when is this idiot ever going to learn she's a dangerous enemy? At this rate, never. Really, what is so hard to figure out? Don't mess with this one person and her friends, she's far stronger than you can even imagine - anybody having trouble there? Read to find out just how she completes the first trial/task!