About a week later, Harry's trying to get the potential Gryffindor Quidditch players to listen to him.

"All right, queue up! Hello…"

Bloom lets out an ear-piercing whistle that gets everybody's attention, then yells "Shut up and listen to the guy who's going to decide whether or not you're going to be on the team already!"

Harry frowns, but nods at her gratefully.

"Thanks Bloom. Anyway, this morning I'll be putting you all through a few drills to see what your strengths are. Just because you got into the team last year does not guarantee your chances of a spot this year, is that clear?"

Everyone nods, and Ron gulps nervously while Bloom whispers "It'll be fine Ron. Besides, I'm looking at a Beater anyway."

He grins, then gulps again at the thought of Bloom with one of those bats.

Harry begged the two of them to join the team, saying it was boring all by himself now.

Ron jumped at the chance, and Harry had to bribe Bloom with a few new books on Charms and magic - and a kiss - but she agreed.

Cormac, a kid they've seen smiling at Hermione all year now walks over and says "No hard feelings Weasley."

"Hard feelings?"

"I'm up for Keeper as well. Nothing personal."

Bloom starts saying a Keeper needs to be fast and agile while he looks more like he'd make a good Beater - but stops when he snatches a fly out of the air and kills it in his fist.

"I like my chances. Say, Bloom…do you think you could introduce me to your friend, Granger? Wouldn't mind getting on a first-name basis, know what I mean?"

He winks lewdly, and walks away - not seeing Bloom's look of disgust.

Bloom turns out to make an excellent Beater, smashing the bat into one Bludger and then the other in seconds and sending them so far out of the field that nobody can see them.

All the onlookers in the stands quickly move out of the way, leaving Neville to delicately move to the left and give her a thumbs up.

Ginny handles the Quaffle with ease, Seamus sends one of the two Bludgers into the stands again, and this time Neville moves to the right.

It comes to a shootout between Ron and Cormac for who is the Keeper - Bloom will test Cormac, Ginny will test Ron.

Cormac protests, but Harry says he's the captain and they'll do it his way.

They go up, and Bloom fully plans on giving Cormac a run for his money.

As both she and Ginny let their Quaffles fly, Hermione mutters something with her face buried in her hands like she can't stand to watch.

Cormac suddenly rolls his broom to the left and misses the shot completely - Ron blocks Ginny's with his forehead.

The Chasers are Katie Bell, Ginny Weasley, and Demezla Robins.

The Bludgers are Bloom and Seamus Finnegan. The keeper is Ron, and Harry's still the Seeker.

Lavendar coos "Isn't he brilliant?" and Hermione glares balefully at her.

In the Gryffindoor Common room, Ron is cracking walnuts and throwing the shell pieces into the fire, Hermione is reading the Daily Prophet, and Bloom is reading one of the new spellbooks Harry got her - her fairy spellbook and Potions textbook are right next to her as well.

When Ron comments that Cormac seems to have a thing for her, Hermione rolls her eyes and says "He's vile."

Bloom points out a spell to Hermione, asking if she's ever heard of it.

"No, I haven't, and if you had any shred of self-respect, you'd turn that book in!"

Bloom looks confused, then asks "The spellbook Harry got me?"

Hermione blinks, and then looks closer at the book Bloom's holding.

"No, the potions book!"

Bloom quickly makes it disappear, right before Hermione starts looking for it.

"Look, so someone used it before. There's nothing wrong with writing a few notes in a textbook!"

Ron says "You're the top of the class! And Harry's a close second. Professor Slughorn thinks you two are geniuses."

Hermione says "I'd just like to know who's it was. Now, let's see it."

"There was a name on the back of the front cover, it said 'This is the Property of the Half-Blood Prince.' That's all though, and I've looked for some 'Half-Blood Prince' in the library with nothing."

Harry comes in, and Bloom makes a spot for him to sit down - floating her invisible books onto her legs as she shifts over.

"Hey, found anything interesting yet?"

"A few things. There's a spell in here that can grow plants instantly - I bet Neville would like that one."

Harry grins, and Hermione says "Harry, you ever hear of a 'Half-blood Prince?'"

"No, why?"

"That's the owner of Bloom's Potions textbook before her. And apparently he wrote a lot of things in there."

Bloom rolls her eyes, then says "Really, it's not a huge deal. He made notes in the margins. That isn't illegal or anything."

Ron adds "And there's apparently no mention of this guy in the library - anywhere. Bloom's looked. We only just found out about this a minute or so ago."

"Well, we'll all look later then."

Bloom sighs and facepalms, saying "Guys, chill out. The book isn't cursed or anything. It just happened to be used by someone who's apparently good at potions."

Bloom stands up, magically catching the other two books, and says "Look, I'll just go to bed now. Fantastic as this semi-interrogation has been, I'm tired. See you all in the morning."

She walks out, and Ron, Harry, and Hermione just stare after her.

Ron asks "What's gotten into her?" Hermione shakes her head, and says "I don't know, but she's been kind of moody lately. Like, ever since school started."

Harry frowns, and says "It started after the Battle at the Department of Mysteries. I'd find her staring off into space, or she'd completely zone out. She always made up some excuse, but…"

Hermione prompts "But?"

"But I think she's scared. I've seen her reading that book on the Magical Dimension again - a lot, actually - the part about the Dragon Flame and what it can do."

Hermione says "She's curious, big deal."

Harry shakes his head, and says "She read that cover to cover in year one. She must know it by heart at this point. I've seen her notebook as well, with pages and pages filled with notes about the Dragon Flame - what it can do, how strong it is, what could happen if the Holder loses control…"

Hermione and Ron go still, and Ron asks "She thinks she's going to lose control?"

"I don't know, but, what happened at the Department wasn't nothing. She…"

"We know Harry. Go on."

"Something like that is big, she was worried in year one that she wouldn't be able to control it. That she'd go bad and use it to destroy everything or she would go ballistic at something and destroy everything."

Hermione asks "Destroying everything is kind of a theme with her, isn't it?"

Ron says "She has a point though, what would happen?"

Harry says "She told me once everything in a large distance would be turned into a massive, smoking crater, with Bloom unconscious at the center and everything else gone. Most likely."

Ron gulps, and he and Hermione share a look.

"Okay, that seems a fair thing to worry about. But it hasn't happened yet, and-"

"And now, with Bloom being brought back by the power inside her, no command from her or anything like that, well, she was comfortable with the power inside her. She never wanted it, but she was getting used to it - now, she's basically at square one again - except this time she has more control over fire than she did at the end of year one."

They nod, and Hermione says "You think she'll be herself again in a few weeks?"

Harry shrugs, saying "Maybe, I don't know."

AN: Well, who would be completely normal after coming back to life? Physically, Bloom's fine - she's just dealing with the fact that she came back to life automatically, or trying to at any rate. No, I won't give her a breakdown or anything - it's just a lot to wrap your head around.