"You know, you really should learn to make all of you invisible, and not just your mounts."
Bloom's eyes alight with anger when she recognizes Lucius Malfoy's voice, and he removes his mask.
"Now, hand me the Prophecy, Potter."
He holds out his hand, but Bloom says "Try anything, and nobody gets the prophecy."
They hear a maniacal laugh, and a woman's voice says "She knows how to play, you got that right Lucius. So, you're the girl everybody's having so much trouble with. I can see why they'd have trouble fighting you at first, but how hard can it really be to fight you after the shock wears off?"
Neville glares, and says "Bellatrix Lestrange."
He looks like he could spit nails right now, and Bloom suddenly realizes this is the woman who helped torture his parents into insanity.
"Neville Longbottom, isn't it? How's Mum and Dad?"
Bellatrix is cruelly teasing Neville, but he's not the same scared kid he was in year one.
"Better, now that they're about to be avenged."
Lucius steps between the group of students, one extremely dangerous and another extremely angry, and Bellatrix.
"Now, let's everybody just calm down, shall we?"
He's acting as a peacemaker, because he knows full well he doesn't stand a chance against Bloom in a space this confined.
Neville lowers his wand for now, and Bloom asks "So, why exactly does Snake-face, or should I call him Tom Riddle, want a crystal ball that looks like it'll be good for a game of basketball?"
Bellatrix hisses in total anger, and even Lucius looks put-off by her lack of fear of the evil wizard.
"You dare insult him? Use the name he cast away?"
Bloom stares Lestrange dead in the eyes and says "I dare. And guess what? Ask Malfoy here what I did the last time I saw him."
Lucius was walking forward slowly, but he quickly takes a step back.
"I'll give you a hint."
She snaps her fingers and a fireball the size of her fist forms.
Lucius looks at Harry, and asks "Haven't you always wondered? What was the reason for the connection between you and the Dark Lord? Why he couldn't kill you as an infant? Don't you want to know the secret of your scar?"
Lucius takes a baby step forward, watching both Harry's reactions and Bloom's fireball growing slowly.
"All the answers are there Potter. In your hands. All you have to do…is give it to me. Then, I can show you everything."
Lucius thinks he has Harry when he says "I've waited fourteen years to know."
"Yes."
"I can wait a little longer. Stupefy!"
The two Death-Eaters disappear, and they all make a run for it - Harry carrying the Prophecy while Bloom attacks other Death-Eaters that try to take it.
They make a run for it, ending up completely lost and Bloom, Harry, Ron, and Hermione separated from the others.
From what Bloom can see, they're holding their own though.
They somehow reunite in front of a stone archway and Bloom and Luna can hear voices in it.
The others insist that there are no voices, but Lucius appears and scares them all half to death.
More Death-Eaters take the others captive, and Bellatrix is holding Neville still - likely anticipating using the torture curse on him like she did his parents.
Lucius grabs Bloom, thinking Harry would have no choice but to hand it over if his strongest fighter - and girlfriend - were his hostage.
Harry's about to move, when he suddenly freezes and stares at Bloom.
Lucius can tell something's happening, but he can't tell what.
He pokes the tip of his wand a little harder into her neck, saying "Hand it, over unless you want your girlfriend here to die!"
Neville yells "Don't give it to him, Harry!"
Harry unfreezes, and yells "Bloom, no!"
The orb suddenly explodes in Harry's hands, Bloom was serious about breaking it.
Lucius's expression turns from smug and condescending to incredibly scared - and then Bloom starts glowing orange and lets loose a small explosion of her power.
Lucius is knocked to the ground a few feet from her, and all the kids cheer.
When Lucius gets up, he hears footsteps and sees Sirius standing behind him.
"Stay away from my Godchild!"
Sirius punches Lucius hard enough to knock him to the ground again.
More members of the Order of the Phoenix appear, and Moody and Tonks both stare at Bloom in shock for a minute.
Tonks says "You know, when they said she was different, I didn't really know what to think."
Moody says "My fake eye must be malfunctioning."
Bloom blasts at a Death-Eater, then asks "You gonna stand and stare, or are you gonna fight?"
That snaps them out of their daze, and Tonks grins.
"You'd make an excellent addition to the Order."
Sirius gets Bloom and Harry in a relatively safe corner behind a column, and says "You two go, take the others and get out. We'll handle the rest."
Harry is about to protest when Bloom beats him to it.
"Sirius, no. We're here, and we're going to help fight."
"You've done beautifully, now you kids need to leave. Let us take it from here."
Sirius looks in their eyes, but Lucius says "Black."
Lucius takes his wand from his staff, but Bloom hits his stream of magic with one from her wand - and then quickly overpowers Lucius with a little concentration.
Two more Death-Eaters appear, but Bloom and Harry fight them off easily.
Sirius raises an eyebrow, and Bloom says "We've been practicing."
Bellatrix appears, looking at the three of them in shock - particularly, at Bloom.
She has an idea though, one way to weaken her and Harry both.
"Adavra Kedavra!"
She shoots the Killing Curse at Sirius, but Bloom sees and pushes him out of the way.
She takes the full blow for him, and hits the floor hard - she's just lucky she didn't hit the archway, or would be if she was alive.
Harry and Sirius both fall to their knees next to her, and Lupin supports Harry.
She's one of the most important people in the world to Harry, and she's grown on Sirius an amazing amount considering he hasn't really known her all that long.
Harry whispers "Bloom, please wake up! You have to wake up!"
Hermione goes very still at the sight of Bloom on the ground, so does everyone else who knows her - but then they have to keep fighting to stay alive.
She made them promise to not die, they can't break it now.
Harry runs after Bellatrix, and Lupin and Sirius stay with Bloom.
Sirius can't believe how much this hurts - he's hardly known her, the most time they spent in each other's company was when they all came over for Christmas, but she grew on him at an incredible speed.
The way she'd always offer to help out, the way you can read her emotions all over her face - the way she reminds him of Lily and Harry of James.
Somehow, this is like their deaths all over again.
Suddenly, the glow around her body kicks into high gear for a moment.
Heat literally blazes off her skin as she erupts with the magical fire they know to love the sight of - and then one of her butterfly wings flicks up.
Harry is running after Bellatrix, angrier than he can ever remember being.
Now he knows exactly how Bloom can get so angry at someone that she can blow something up - if he had her powers, he'd be an inferno right now.
Bellatrix sings out "I killed Potter's girlfriend!" and laughs.
Harry yells "Stupefy!" and Bellatrix hits the floor.
He runs up and points his wand in her face, wishing he had Bloom's ability to simply blast something to smithereens.
A new voice says "Well done, Bellatrix. Seems the biggest obstacle to Potter is gone at last."
Harry whirls around to find Voldemort standing there.
Harry tries to duel Voldemort, but he simply knocks Harry's wand out of his hand.
"So weak."
Dumbledore appears using the Floo network, and Voldemort backs up.
"It was foolish of you to come here, Tom. The Aurors will be here soon."
"By which time I'll be gone…and you'll be dead."
Voldemort casts a spell, which Dumbledore blocks.
In the process, Harry is pushed by Dumbledore behind a column.
Bellatrix starts twitching, the effects of Harry's stun spell wearing off.
Voldemort breaks the duel and breaths a cloud of fire into the air - which he turns into a snake.
Dumbledore backs away - until the fire-snake suddenly turns into a firedragon.
Voldemort was laughing, until his snake suddenly changed and roared.
"What?"
"Yeah, about that whole 'Bloom's dead' thing…not today, Snake-face!"
Bellatrix gasps, as Bloom is flying there and shimmering with fire around her.
She directs the dragon back to Voldemort, hitting him and knocking him into the wall.
Bellatrix finally sits up and yells "That's impossible!"
Bloom blasts her through a column, then lands and gets crushed by Harry.
Sirius and Remus come running over, out of breath and thoroughly shocked.
Voldemort uses the shards of glass from the window he went through to attack them - Bloom makes them pause in midair and then reverse and head straight for Voldemort.
He makes them turn to dust, then vanishes in a cloud of dust.
Everybody looks around, and then Harry groans in pain and collapses to the floor.
He looks at Dumbledore a moment later, with light eyes instead of his usual striking green.
"You've lost, old man."
Harry groans in pain again, seeing visions of every horrible moment in his life.
Bloom crouches next to him, saying "Harry, fight him! Kick him to the curb where he belongs!"
Harry groans again, still writhing on the floor in pain.
It feels like his head is about to crack open, and then he feels a third presence in his head.
It calls up every good memory he's ever had, him and his friends at Hogwarts, a giant birthday cake Bloom made out of nothing for him the moment she learned that day was his birthday, the pile of presents she made for him after about five minutes of thought.
Dumbledore says "It's not how your alike, it's how your different."
He hears a voice that's hot and fiery and definitely Bloom's yell GET OUT OF HERE, TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE!
Harry gasps as anger and strength and a will like iron flood through him, instantly pushing the pain away and making the very foreign mind take a hasty retreat - but not before getting stabbed by anger and rocky memories like they're knives.
Voldemort reappears, holding his head in pain, as Harry gets to his feet with help from Bloom.
His eyes are his own now, and Voldemort's looking at Bloom in shock and anger - and disbelief.
Suddenly, the fireplaces activate and Aurors and officials come out.
Bloom transforms before any of them get a good look at her, and Fudge walks forward before freezing in pure terror when he sees Voldemort - maybe a minute before the evil wizard disappears.
He mutters "He's back…"
All the people who just got here are shocked and staring.
Sirius is standing behind the group of his friends, and is equally amazed but not totally surprised when Bloom walks up to Fudge.
"Minister, I really think you can't deny Voldemort's back. What more proof could you need? A video from him saying he's back and wants to take over the place?"
Fudge nods, then shakes his head, then just closes his eyes and says "He's back."
"Good, now, what else did I want to do? Oh, right…"
She decks Fudge hard, shocking everyone again.
Fudge rights himself, and asks "I know I earned that in more ways than one. Care to specify why I received it though?"
"Let's see: for refusing to believe a psychopathic wizard is back; for appointing that toad, Dolores Umbridge, as DADA teacher; for trying to turn the entire wizarding community against us; for blaming everything Snake-face and his cronies have done on Sirius - who, by the way, is completely innocent, Peter Pettigrew framed him by cutting off a finger and escaping - and everything else you've done over the past year!"
Harry walks up and pulls Bloom away, before something happens that can't be blamed on post-battle stress.
AN: Yes, Bloom came back to life - because of the Dragon Flame. It made a universe, it's no stretch of the imagination to think it could very easily sustain one living being 'til old age - and maybe prolong that a hell of a lot. Either way, it's the Fire of Life for a reason - and now Snake-Face and his cronies have just been busted!