Ian was waiting for some sort of answer when his house's headboy answered it for him. Ian smiled back at him and said [b]Thank you. Sorry about that. It must have seemed a silly question.[/textcut].
He worked on the mixture until he had a mixture similar to what the others had done and made the fire go to a higher level as instructed.
Incendio Unfortunately, he spoke it a little more forcefully than he had planned and had to quickly stop it.
FINITE! He tried again before his mixture was worthless.
Incendio! There, that had done the trick.