(A.N: My exams are now done. Yay for summer!)

XXVIII. Fire

Sometimes Daphne found herself wondering whether Blaise should really have been a Slytherin. Slytherin was, after all, the house most closely associated with water, but Blaise was fire through and through – ever changing, beautiful, flaring brightly for a moment before dying away completely.

But then Daphne remembered that water was even more changeable than fire and that ice too can burn, and finally realised exactly why Blaise had been sorted into Slytherin. People shy away from fire because they know they could get burnt, but how many would think to fear getting burnt by ice?