It was this playfulness that really attracted Alice Morgan to him. He wasn’t as studious as the boys who fancied her from Ravenclaw, nor as stoic as Slytherin boys with their haughty sneers. And he was younger too, which shouldn’t have made things awkward, only it did. Getting attention from the imperious Slytherin Head Girl wouldn’t have made the life of this Hufflepuff hero very pleasant, so Alice kept her distance, watched from afar and dreamt of what might have been.