His eyes sparkled just a bit, all in good fun after all. "Ah, yes, some of them are. Always thinking inside the box. Though I do like that at least some of them have learned to think out of it. Dora's always doing strange bits that make me go wow. Have you ever seen her duel? That thing she does with conjuring plant seeds and then making them grow up and bind her opponent and rendering him or her helpless is pure gold, I swear." Always in a nicely underhanded way, hidden under another bright spell.
"It is, and I like the quickness a lot of times. And it makes some things a lot easier. Still have an owl, though, and use him sometimes. But he's mostly fat and fluffy on a perch pretending to be a statuary or something."