"Fine, you try telling that to my mum," Alfie was teasing even as he said it, though, because he knew there was no talking his mum out of it. She barely wanted him to let him go out with his muggle friends! Going to Diagon would give her a fit.
"Ice cream's better than going to buy things for school anyway," he pointed out, the word 'school' sounding sour in his mouth, really, like he didn't like the taste of it any more than he liked the idea of going back to it.