"Yeah, that one probably sounds better.... I'll just have to find someone who knows that charm." Alfie was notoriously bad at... well, most magic, really, if it didn't involve getting himself dirty or flying. It wasn't that he couldn't learn them, he just didn't really pay enough attention in classes to ever really master much. And no one expected much more from him.
He watched as Puddle wriggled happily at the petting. "Isn't there something you can buy, like powder or something, that makes them go all bonkers? Or is that just muggle?"