("What was the power in you that forced me to confess these things?")

.

Then comes along Rose. Her temper is as Weasley as her hair, every one of her tall inches a Gryffindor inch that would fight to the death.

She's in Hufflepuff.

But she's good and generous and all that's awhile before he realizes that the only thing that burns about her is her hair. Not that Rose smolders, exactly, but she's a candle in comparsion.

She is dark like the smoke and sometimes smoke is dangerously close to snuffing out her fire.

Add more kindling to the flames: not only is she pretty, and popular but now she is also talented.

She plays Chaser for the Quidditch team; a team of Weasley, Weasley, Potter and Weasley.

Lysander has no idea what anything means but he is content to sit in the stands (once he has determined that they aren't using a real Snidget) and watches her fly, the sun spotlights her every move.