Bloom, Harry, and Dumbledore appear back on the Astronomy tower in a large vortex of fire, and Bloom says "Well, let's go find one R.A.B after we get Professor Dumbledore healed."
Bloom starts glowing orange, but Dumbledore says "No, Severus…Severus is who I need right now. Wake him, tell him what's happened. Speak to nobody else about this."
Bloom and Harry nod, but they hear footsteps right after.
Dumbledore tells them to hide, then straightens up to mask his infirmity.
They slip past the stairs, and then Draco Malfoy comes in.
"Good evening Draco, what brings you here on such a fine spring evening? Or is it summer now?"
Draco stands ready, his wand pointed at Dumbledore and his eyes darting around. "Who else is here? I heard you talking."
Dumbledore smiles, and says "I often talk aloud to myself, I find it extraordinarily useful. That which sounds sane at a whisper can seem utterly mad for all the world to hear. You haven't been whispering to yourself, have you Draco?"
Draco eyes Dumbledore uneasily, as he says "You're not an assassin, Draco."
"How do you know what I am? I've done things that would shock you!"
"Like cursing Katie Bell and hoping she would, in turn, bear a cursed necklace to me? Like replacing a bottle of wine with one laced with poison? Forgive me Draco, but these attempts are so feeble that I cannot help but wonder if your heart has really been in them. Anyone that suspected you was likely dissuaded when you ran into the girl's bathroom - I heard that one of your classmates went to see if you were alright. Tell me, when the Dark Lord gave you this task, when he asked you to kill me, did he do it in a whisper?"
Bloom and Harry share a glance, but Harry puts a hand on her shoulder to keep her from blowing their cover.
Draco yells "He trusts me! I was chosen!" He thrusts out his arm, and reveals the Dark Mark on his forearm.
Dumbledore barely looks at it, and says "Very well then. I shall make it easy for you. Slowly, and without intent."
He slowly draws his wand, and Draco yells "Expelliarmus!"
Dumbledore's wand flies out of his hand, and he says "Well done, Draco. I warn you though, killing is not as easy."
Draco is eying the wand with a mixture of fear and awe at his own actions, then his head snaps up as Dumbledore asks "You're not alone, are you? There are others. How?"
Draco's lips play into a sneering smile, and he says "The Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement."
Dumbledore says "That cabinet has been broken for years."
"I've been mending it."
"Ingenious. Let me guess, it had a twin."
Bloom and harry share a horrified look, as Draco tells them it connects to the cabinet at Borgin and Burkes.
Dumbledore's eyes shift, and he says "I once knew a boy who made all the wrong choices. Let me help you, Draco."
Draco yells "I don't want your help! I have to do it! I have to!"
His voice drops to a whisper, as he says "I have to kill you, or he'll kill me."
Dumbledore says "Say that again Draco, but out loud this time. Also, don't you think a certain classmate of yours could help you as well?"
"Who, Bloom? She hates me."
"She went to see if you were the next victim of the string of near-death occurrences. You may intensely dislike each other, but I do not believe someone with a heart as golden as hers could be capable of hate without a very good reason. Trying to kill her, for instance."
Draco's hand is trembling, and his wand is lowering to his side, when they hear more footsteps.
Bellatrix and Fenrir Greyback burst in, and she says "Well now, what do we have here? Dumbledore, wandless and alone. Cornered in his own castle, well done Draco."
Harry can barely keep Bloom from transforming right then and flying up to blast all three.
Dumbledore says "Good evening Bellatrix. I believe introductions are in order."
She teasingly says "Sorry, but we're on a tight schedule." She turns to Draco, and says "Do it."
Draco's wand rises again, and then Bloom and Harry see someone flitting through the columns to their right.
It's Snape, with his wand out. He puts his finger to his lips at them, telling them to be quiet.
Harry nods, and Bloom points up to the ceiling frantically.
He nods, and then motions for them to stay there.
Just as it looks like Draco's going to make his choice, Snape says "No."
They all look over to see him standing there, and Bellatrix says "Well, Hogwarts's own DADA teacher. Come to watch the slaughter?"
Dumbledore says "Severus…please."
Snape says "I gave my word. I made a vow…"
Bloom and Harry have no idea what's happening now, until Snape shouts "Avada Kedavra!"
The burst of green light that hits Dumbledore is a bulls-eye, and he hangs in the air for a moment before falling to the ground.
The triumphant blast Bellatrix makes masks Bloom and Harry's screams of rage.
Snape tells Draco "You can't stay here any longer."
Draco seems frozen, until Snape grabs him by the back of his neck and marches him out of the room.
The four figures make it to Hagrid's hut, and Bellatrix sets it on fire.
Draco keeps looking back at the school, but his attention is quickly diverted when the flames suddenly shape themselves into a massive firedragon. "What is that?"
Bellatrix says "That means trouble. You remember the red-head?"
He nods, and then he looks up and sees Bloom glowing with fire and flying on the air.
She's glaring at all of them, and lands hard on the ground between them and Hagrid's hut.
The fire suddenly jumps from the hut behind her to make a circle around them all - one that burns Draco's hand when he gets close enough to the wall of fire surrounding them.
"You want to get out, you have to fight me."
She uses her wand to shoot a beam of magic at Bellatrix, who duels her.
Fenrir joins in, but they don't make any headway, they're barely holding their own and Bloom hasn't broken a sweat yet.
Snape tells Draco "Seems you finally see why she's so dangerous. Bellatrix and Fenrir won't last long, we're leaving."
When Draco looks over, he sees the orange beam from Bloom's wand slowly getting consumed by fire from the dragon's mouth, eating its way through her magic like its catching fire - and then suddenly, it hits the middle point and starts eating the beams from the two duelers. "Could she always do that? Since she first came here?"
"After year one, she earned her wings. She mastered these powers in secret, all while managing her schoolwork. Now, we're leaving."
Fenrir gives up on the duel, and tries to rush Bloom as Snape and Draco get through the wall of fire with a complicated spell from Snape - and then Fenrir gets blasted through the wall, past the two fleeing figures and lands in a smoking pile.
He groans, and says "Watch out for blasts from her hands…"
Draco's eyes go huge at that, and again when Bellatrix is suddenly thrown back as well.
"She's a good dueler for someone with wings…"
They escape when Bloom runs into Hagrid's house to save him - Dumbledore wasn't kidding when he said she had a heart of gold.
Bellatrix yells "Go! She won't take long!"
They make it into the dark Forest - and then they hear her scream "COWARDS!"
Draco mutters "Now, her temper is terrifying. I'm going to have nightmares about her chasing me around on fire and screaming for months. Why hasn't anyone killed her yet?"
Bellatrix looks at the ground, and Snape asks "Are you going to tell him? Or should I?"
"What? Tell me what?"
Bellatrix swallows, and says "In the Department of Mysteries, I hit her with the Killing Curse. She took it for Sirius, my cousin. And then, a minute or so later, she flew back and fought the Dark Lord."
Draco's jaw drops in shock and horror, and Snape says "That's what her power does - it keeps her from being killed until she can pass it on. Honestly, has nobody but me actually learned anything about this girl?"
Draco says "She has a wicked temper and has been able to do spells wordlessly since year two."
"Yes, and she could've turned that snake you summoned into something else just by pointing her wand at it. You didn't think that was a warning bell at all? That she could block spells, wordlessly disarm you, set a snake on fire without even twitching? None of that told you she was dangerous? All the people telling you to stay away from her?"
"Why is she even here? At Hogwarts?"
Bellatrix laughs, and says "She was sent on a mission to protect Harry Potter. She was also turned younger for that mission. The age you are now is the same age she was five years ago before coming here, apparently. Peter Pettigrew heard everything from her mouth, and then related it back to the Dark Lord."
"She knew of magic before coming here? She was sixteen?!"
Greyback says "Not anymore. Wormtail says she said it was a permanent spell. They could do it in reverse, put her back at the age she's supposed to be - twenty-one - but not until her mission is complete and there's no more threat to Harry."
"So, she'll only leave for good when the Dark Lord is killed…"
Snape says "Yes, that about sums it up. What you just saw is the reason why she's so gifted in magic, natural talent alone wouldn't make her so powerful - though she has plenty of that, I'm afraid - but this is why she's the strongest witch in our age."
"She's not a witch! She's not even from this planet!"
"When she uses magic we use, she's technically using witc-powers. When she flies around on wings, she's using magic we can't regulate - she could always use it outside of class, or on Muggles if she chose, with no legal consequences. It's a different kind of magic, and one the Ministry doesn't know of for the most part. Where she comes from is not widely known, most think it's just stories."
"The magical Dimension. She was reading it in year one, I saw…"
"Yes, I'm assuming you had no idea to look in that book?"
Draco shakes his head, and Snape tells him everything he knows of Bloom's powers.
Draco gets paler and paler as he hears more about what Bloom can do - and how long Snape suspects she's been practicing this stuff in secret. "Since year one?!"
"Yes, her wordless spells in the duel the year after all but confirmed she was getting stronger fast. You remember her Trials in the Tournament?"
"Yes, the dragon…"
Draco feels like he could faint again, and Snape says "That dragon likely sensed her anger, her mounting magic, and made the smart choice to survive. The lake boiling, I seriously doubt she ate Giliweed, none was missing from my stores. And you heard how the third trial went."
Draco numbly nods, wondering if he's in the middle of a breakdown from all the stress he's been under this year.
AN: Looks like Draco's finally learned his lesson about Bloom: she's more dangerous than anything he can do, and if he has any brains he'll stay as far away from her as possible. Too bad it took him six years and Dumbledore's death to figure this out. Anybody wondering how Bloom's supposed to get her Enchantix? Find out next chapter!