Sam had been watching the flames for a while after taking a seat, but hadn't noticed the creatures hidden within until Professor Wayland mentioned she should be looking for them. Yup, she could see the salamanders sat there in the flickering flames. How cool.

Except not cool at all. Hot enough to give very bad burns indeed.

Aaaanyways, Sam knew quite a few things about salamanders from her OWL studies, so she drew her eyes away from the fire and raised her hand. "Salamanders are lizards...which are reptiles, but the Muggle variety are amphibians." That was, not reptiles. Which was curious really, given they had the same name.