He wanted to yank Steve straight away from Rose the moment he stepped protectively in front of her; yank him into the open and punch him right in that stupid half-masked face of his. He felt suddenly angry and jealous and frustrated at the whole situation and wanted to walk away, just turn tail and ignore them all. Morag was snapping feistily at Rose and Steve was being an overzealous mollycoddler; both made him want to hurl. For a split moment he looked at Rose in an apologetic way, as if to say he did not understand other houses. They were Hufflepuffs, and he had a temper (a rather mean and rash one at times) but he didn't know how to be conniving; not on a grand scale. He admired it in Morag the few times he'd watched it, but slithering out in regards to one of his own? Rose? It made him a little...perturbed.