Previously lost in his reading, Benedict was not a rude boy and when he realised his omission of action he blushed a little and walked across towards the door, nodding politely to the others that more keenly sought to help. Nobody could hear each other due to the silence spell, they were down to hand gestures only. This wasn't an entirely unusual situation to the petshop owners boy, words having little effect on many animals, but it was unusual enough. The teenager looked around him in search of ideas, what to try? A bombard spell would be a nice trick, but could any of them cast it non-verbally? Benedict certainly couldn't use non-verbal spells on account of his dogwood wand.