Bloom races down the corridor, following the trail of orange footsteps in front of her. They suddenly stop at a wall, and then she's pinned from behind by nothing – her arms are trapped at her sides and she can only struggle and yell in fury.
She starts struggling, only to find the nothing that's pinning her sweeps away to reveal Harry under his Invisibility Cloak. "Bloom, it's me. Stop struggling."
"Let me go, Harry! Let me go so I can kill you for going off and getting yourself killed on me!"
Harry holds her tighter, knowing full well she's got a massive headache and is lower on magic than she's been in years. "Bloom, I really didn't want to die. I didn't have a choice though. Promise not to blast me when I let you go, and I will. Let me explain, alright?"
She's still tearing at his arms, but gives up after a moment and says "Fine. But you'd better have one damn good reason for all that. And I mean one very good reason, as in 'Fidelius-Protection-level' good."
Harry lets her go, and she immediately spins around and punches him in the face.
He can see her face is tearstained and her eyes are red and puffy, so he catches her fist - and then blocks the second slap from her other hand.
"Bloom, when we went to find Voldemort, Snape was there as well. Voldemort killed him to gain the allegiance of the Elder Wand, thinking Snape was its Master."
Bloom interrupts, yelling "You said you wouldn't give up! You promised me!" Her voice is raw and cracking, Hermione said Bloom let out a piercing scream that must've been heard for miles suddenly - it was his name. "I felt you die, Harry! It felt like half of me died as well! Do you have any idea how that feels?"
Harry puts her arms behind her back in a hug, and pulls her to him while she angrily and very upsettedly tries to shove against his chest - it doesn't really work so well when she can't use her hands for that.
Harry whispers "I know, I know I did. And I wanted to keep that promise. But Snape gave me some of his memories right before he died, they revealed a lot. For one, he loved my mother since they were kids - I'm still trying to process that one."
Bloom yells "So what? You think the bombshell that Snape liked your mom is going to make me forget that you went off and let yourself die without even telling me?"
Harry lets her struggle some more, then keeps talking when she stops for a moment. "Bloom, they also showed Snape was a triple-agent for Dumbledore - ever since Voldemort started hunting my mom. He was hunting all three of us, but my mom is the one Snape loved. He was secretly protecting me all this time, and playing a double agent for Voldemort while really working for Dumbledore. He'd tell Voldemort info that Professor Dumbledore told him to, while protecting me and telling Dumbledore everything. Also, the two of them planned Professor Dumbledore's death - he was already dying from a curse that was on the Horcrux ring."
Bloom looks down at the floor, and mutters "Now I feel bad about hating him all this time. But that still doesn't make any kind of reason for dying, Harry! You've got one more sentence before I start blasting!"
"Dumbledore told him that I was an unintentional Horcrux of Voldemort's. When he tried to kill me, all those years ago, after killing my mother, her protection saved me and his soul broke apart. A piece of it latched onto me - I was the only living thing in the room. Professor Dumbledore didn't know it until we got him Professor Slughorn's memory though, which is why I only found out maybe ten minutes after we got back from the Shack."
Bloom stares at him in shock and horror, and then tears start rolling down her face as she yells "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? DON'T YOU THINK I COULD'VE MAYBE DONE SOMETHING?!"
Harry lets go of her wrists and pulls her to him, trying to calm her down and stop the shaking in her shoulders as she sobs at the news that he had to die if Voldemort was going to be gotten rid of forever.
After a minute, Harry says "I didn't want to do it, die, but it was the only way to get rid of Snake-Face forever. Besides, I didn't die all the way, remember our third year?"
Bloom nods, not trusting herself to say anything.
"Well, when you gave Sirius and I a piece of your fire, you bound us both to this world. I could feel you trying to pull me back."
"That's because I wasn't going to let you die!" Bloom nearly hits him on the chest again, so Harry pulls her back into the hug.
"I was talking with Dumbledore, death seems to be treating him well by the way. Also, my parents think well of you. I used the Resurrection stone to bring their shades back for support. They know everything that's happened, and they're proud of us both."
Bloom lets out a strangled laugh that sounds half like a sob, and says "Great, you got to meet your parents and you didn't even introduce me."
Harry pulls back a little and starts wiping the tears off her cheeks, saying "Bloom, I would've told you, but you wouldn't have let me leave. I know you wouldn't have, the same way you wouldn't have let me go alone in the Maze if it had been me in the Tri-Wizard Tournament."
"I told you I didn't want to end the battle and find you dead. So you went and got yourself killed in the break in the battle!"
Bloom's clearly running on fumes right now, both magical and emotional. Harry kisses her, and after a moment she kisses him back.
Hermione and Ron peek in just in time to see this, and Ron complains "Bloody hell! You tick her off bad enough to warrant her bloody well murdering you to keep you from getting yourself killed again - and then you kiss and it's all forgiven?"
He stops when they see the red mark on Harry's face, along with a bruise forming. Harry's face was already cut and bloody, so nobody else will know the difference – but they sure notice it.
Bloom says "No, I yelled at him a lot. Speaking of which…"
She grabs Harry's robes and shakes him, yelling "DON'T YOU EVER GO OFF AND GET YOURSELF KILLED EVER AGAIN, HARRY JAMES POTTER!"
Harry grabs her and pulls her into a hug again, giving Ron a look that thanks him for setting her off again.
Ron turns red, and says "Oh, never mind."
Bloom's shaking now, as Harry strokes her hair and whispers to her to calm her down.
When Bloom finally stops crying, Harry says "Guys, I've had enough trouble to last a lifetime." They all agree, then they head to the Headmaster's office.
All the portraits give Harry a standing Ovation, and then he gets one last piece of advice from Dumbledore's picture.
He says he left the 'thing in the snitch' in the forest and he doesn't know that he'll go look for it - Dumbledore approves - he is going to keep Ignotus's gift, which is his until he passes it on, and then he fixes his very broken wand with the Elder Wand and reseals the Elder Wand back in Dumbledore's tomb.
They make their way to the Gryffindor Common Room, and Bloom looks at Harry and says "I wake up and you're not in the room, I'm hunting you down." She then collapses onto the nearest couch in exhaustion, and Fyra flies over and curls up next to her.
Ron whistles, and Hermione asks "You think she'd go through with that?"
Harry asks "You think she wouldn't? Took forever to get her to stop yelling. She was a bit upset."
Hermione says "I'll tell Sirius and Remus you survived Bloom's wrath. And then, I'm following Bloom's example."
Ron and Harry nod, and they use magic to float the couches together to make a four-couch square for the night.
Harry and Ron talk for a while, and Harry tells him how he and Dudley reconciled over the summer.
The Dementor attack two summers ago had a good effect on him - Harry didn't think that was even possible - and he changed his ways after seeing who he really was. He didn't have any worst memories, so he saw the fact that he was a spoiled, hateful person who liked to pick on those weaker than him - and apparently, he stopped.
Bloom and Harry didn't hear any of this the summer before year six, as they were finally staying with Sirius. They met briefly when the Order of the Phoenix evacuated them to keep them from dying. Dudley accepted, and was briefly taken to 12 Grimmauld place before being moved to another location - one that would hopefully be far enough away from the action to keep him from being a target.
He apologized for being such a bully to Harry when they were kids, and said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space like his parents always said. The rest of the Order was offended, but harry said that awkward apology was the Dursley equivalent of a heartfelt expression of thanks.
Harry and his Aunt and Uncle will never get along, will never even like each other or be neutral towards each other, but at least Dudley's making an effort to make amends.
Hermione gets back in after about ten minutes, and says "Guys, Sirius and Remus are happy Harry's alive, they say congratulations on beating Snake-Face - as everyone's calling him now - and they'll see us in whenever we wake up. I'm betting we're heading back to Sirius's place after that."
Harry tiredly nods, then he climbs into the couch opposite Bloom and is out before he even realizes it.
AN: Ok, this is it everybody! The end of the story! I'm thinking up a sequel, but that might take a while with classes and such - also, I like to make sure the story won't just fizzle out on me and end up another abandoned story on the site. And no, there are not enough words in every language to describe how much trouble Harry was in with Bloom. Horcrux or not, she was mad that he went off and died. and the reason that Harry didn't feel anything two years ago is because Bloom was protected by the Dragon Flame - she came back to life on her own power, Harry was dragged back forcibly by Bloom. PS. While your all waiting for the sequel to this, feel free to read my other story, 'Bloom in Asgard'. That one isn't anywhere near finished, and Bloom is as kick-butt as in this one.