Bloom nearly walks straight into the wall instead of the door before getting inside, and they find Sirius, Molly, Arthur, and a few other people discussing something.
Bloom is too tired to hardly stand - which is why Harry's keeping his arm around her to support her.
Moody gets the attentions of all the people, and Molly Weasley immediately hugs both of them.
"Good heavens, you're alright! A bit peaky, Bloom especially, but I'm afraid dinner will have to wait until the meetings over."
Bloom's stomach rumbles, raising a few eyebrows.
Fyra squawks, and Bloom takes three tries to run her fingers through the Phoenix's feathers.
"S' alright Fyra. I'm just goin' to sit down…"
Molly says "Upstairs, first door on the left."
Harry and Bloom leave their stuff on the bottom floor, and Harry half-carries Bloom up the stairs - he could tell she'd have killed herself trying to get up them.
They aren't steep or anything, but she's stumbling on flat ground.
They notice a house elf muttering something, but he moves away as soon as he notices them.
When Harry opens the door for her, Bloom gets attacked by someone wrapping her in a massive hug.
It's Hermione, and it takes Bloom ten seconds to hug her back loosely.
"Bloom! Harry! You're both alright! We heard the adults talking about a Dementor attack! You must tell us everything."
Bloom tiredly says "They attacked us, tried to kiss us, I blew up."
Hermione gapes in horror at them, and so does Ron, Fred, and George.
Ron asks "Is that why you seem to be only half-awake?"
Harry nods, saying "She let loose a massive amount of fire, destroyed the Dementors - then she slept for hours afterwards."
"Wake me when dinner's here." Bloom immediately crashes on a bed and is nearly out cold right then.
Fred and George move closer, but she's not asleep just yet.
"Did you really beat a Dementor without the Patronus Charm?"
"Yeah, I blew up. One tried to kiss me, I didn't like it very much."
Fred and George have heard of the Dementor's Kiss, and know it's not fun.
Bloom wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, like she can still taste the Dementor.
"Not nice, let me tell you. Of course, that would probably discourage people from trying to steal a kiss to."
Hermione laughs, and asks "And who would be stupid enough to try and force a kiss on you?"
Bloom says "Well, Dudley got me angry maybe a minute before the attack. They're out there Hermione, and we happen to know another."
Ron laughs and says "I'm pretty sure Malfoy's too terrified of you after your performance with the dragon to try anything on you."
Harry scowls at the idea, and Fred says "Enough of this. Want to hear something more interesting?"
The twins go and get a magical ear, so they can listen in on the adults' conversation - and Ron and Hermione explain how Dumbledore told them not to mention any of this to Bloom and Harry.
Harry and Bloom aren't all that shocked anymore, they've heard too many unbelievable things in their lives.
Fred and George return with the ear, and are tying it on a thread.
Its lowered next to the door, and they all suddenly hear voices like they're right next to it.
Sirius says "If anyone has a right to know, it's Bloom and Harry. They're the ones Voldemort is after. She even fought him, for mercy's sake!"
Lupin adds "They're not kids, Molly. And trust us, Bloom can more than duel - you haven't been on the receiving end of her wand."
Molly asks "When have you ever been?"
Sirius laughs and says "When they thought I was out to get them. She pointed her wand straight at both of us, I thought she was going to blast us through the wall."
Molly says "Well, either way, neither of them are adults. They're not Lily and James."
Sirius says "They have each other, and Bloom's got two kinds of magic - and they've got me."
Snape laughs and says "How touchingly paternal. Maybe Potter will turn out to be a felon like his godfather - and maybe Bloom will be the next dark Witch to appear, taking Voldemort's place."
There's a tense silence, both downstairs and up.
Sirius says "You stay out of this Severus, and you know for a fact that that's not true."
Harry grits his teeth, and suddenly they see Crookshanks playing with the ear.
They all try to get Crookshanks off the ear, but he eventually runs off with it.
Hermione exclaims "Bad Crookshanks!" and everybody but Bloom looks at her.
Bloom's too busy trying to stay awake, good thing Fyra is sitting next to her head and nudging her every few seconds.
They all go down the stairs, Harry leaving last and telling her he'd bring food.
He was about to kiss her when either Fred or George knocked on the door and asked if they were still awake.
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione go down, Fred and George suddenly appear behind her and scare her.
She scolds them - they're allowed to use magic outside of school now, but they've been doing stuff like this a lot.
Molly asks "Are you hungry, Harry? I imagine Bloom's starving. We'll be eating in the kitchen."
Arthur asks "You and Bloom alright, Harry? Gave us quite a turn earlier when we heard."
Harry nods, just as Arthur and Molly step aside to reveal Sirius grinning behind them.
Harry hugs Sirius tightly, immensely relieved to see him, then says "Godfather, there's something you really need to know."
Twenty minutes later, they're all talking again.
Dinner hasn't started, but Harry's told Sirius about Bloom's recurring nightmares - and the damage they can cause.
Sometimes they're so bad the farmhouse would shake like it was in an Earthquake - sometimes they'd pass people telling one another about an earthquake.
Lucky for them, they happen to have some sleeping draught on hand - they won't have to use much, Bloom's nearly passed out already.
A few drops in her drink should put her out like a blown-out candle.
They show Harry a newspaper that's calling Bloom 'The Girl Who Lied' - saying Voldemort isn't back and she's making stuff up.
Fudge is literally doing everything in his power to discredit anyone who says the Dark Lord is back.
He's not in his right mind, it's been warped by fear - as Mrs. Figg said, fear makes people do strange and scary things.
He's been attacking Dumbledore's reputation as well, thinking the headmaster of Hogwarts wants his job.
Harry says "That's crazy! Why would Professor Dumbledore want Fudge's job?"
Everybody shrugs, and they turn to the bigger problem at hand.
Moody says "We think Voldemort's rebuilding his army. He's been recruiting, and not even half of them are human. He had a massive army of dark creatures - creatures like Dementors, for instance. He's been recruiting heavily, and so have we - but we think there's something else he's after. Something he didn't have before."
Suddenly, they hear Bloom's voice from the doorway ask "Like a weapon?"
Everybody stares in shock at her, she looks pale and weak, and she's leaning on the doorframe - but Fyra's sitting on her shoulder as always and her gaze is awake enough to add to the conversation.
Molly snatches the newspaper from Harry's hand, and says "Enough, Sirius. Anymore, and you might as well induct them."
Bloom says "So do it. Have me swear whatever oath or do whatever spell you want. Snake-Face wants to try and kill us, I'll be happy to return the favor."
Sirius chuckles and says "I knew we'd get along famously."
Ron asks "How'd you even get down here? We left you lying comatose on a bed!"
Bloom strokes Fyra's feathers as the Phoenix draws their attention to her, and says "Fyra's a fast learner. Seems it only takes around eight months for their teleporting to kick in."
She grins weakly, and Harry moves to her side so Fyra can sit on his shoulder instead.
"On a lighter note, when do we eat? I could eat an entire grocery store clean."
Sure enough, Bloom eats ten minutes longer than everyone else - and twice as fast as everyone else.
She paused for about ten seconds to greet Professor Lupin, then kept inhaling her food like she hadn't eaten in a week.
Remus quietly asks "Exactly how did she beat the Dementors Harry?"
Harry whispers "She blew up. Let loose enough fire to destroy all three and most of the rest of the room. Then she healed Dudley so we wouldn't get into trouble and collapsed - and then, the last thing she's had to eat was a bar of chocolate right before we left for here."
"Ah, right. I assume her current state is the price of her powers? Being exceptionally hungry, exceptionally tired, and more than a little snappy?"
"Pretty much. You didn't hear what happened at the end of last year, did you?"
"A bit, not much."
"She fought off about thirty Death-Eaters. Officially, she and Cedric Diggory fought them off together - what actually happened is that she saved Cedric's life by trapping him in a bubble to protect him and then transformed and fought all the Death-Eaters by herself, along with Voldemort. She was out for three days after that."
Sirius puts a few drops of the sleeping draught in her drink, he's had nightmares of Azkaban enough for them to always have some on hand, and soon enough she's out cold - she was already close, the sleeping potion should just make it so that she won't wake up.
That night, after everyone is sleeping, most people are woken by the whole house suddenly shaking.
The fireplaces suddenly blaze and shoot into the sky, and everything starts rattling like there's an earthquake going on.
Ron, Hermione, Harry, and all the adults stumble out of their rooms - all but Harry are panicking.
Ron asks "What's bloody well going on?"
Hermione yells "It's an earthquake!"
Molly tries to get everyone to safety, but Harry says "No, it's Bloom! She's having another nightmare! The sleeping draught must've worn off!"
He makes his way to her room, hoping nothing starts flying around or catching fire as he goes - it's happened before, and the results were disastrous.
Moody asks "She's really strong enough for this?"
Lupin and Sirius say "She can do things most people can't dream of, Alastor. We've seen some things she can do, it's not a comforting thought to know she's doing this in her sleep."
When Harry gets to Bloom's room, she's tossing and turning in her sleep, mumbling about the graveyard and Voldemort and Wormtail - and now Dementors are in it as well, trying to perform the Dementor's Kiss on her in her dreams.
Harry grabs her shoulders and says "Bloom, it isn't real. Wake up now!"
When that doesn't work, he uses their connection to yank her out of her sleep suddenly.
She wakes up with a gasp, all the other furniture going flying suddenly.
She looks around wildly until Harry turns her face to his.
Ron and Hermione are peeking in, and see Harry hug Bloom as she starts to shake.
Hermione pulls Ron away when Harry starts quietly talking to her - not wanting him to take a blast to the face because he freaked her out.
Sirius asks "Bloom alright?"
Hermione says "She didn't have a heart attack…"
Sirius walks in carefully, hoping he won't get blasted into the wall because he startled Bloom.
After a few minutes, Arthur says "Alright, back to bed everybody. If the house starts shaking on its own again, we can come back out and linger by Bloom's door."
AN: Yeah, Bloom's nightmares get dangerous for everyone - she's all-powerful after all. The sleeping draught is called 'Draught of Dreamless Sleep' - and they only used a few drops of it since Bloom was already nearly-sleeping. When someone wise-awake drinks the right amount, they sleep for hours and don't even twitch - Bloom was not wide-awake, not by any definition of the term. So they used a lighter dose of it, but Bloom didn't wake up when it wore off - resulting in her nightmare.
