Alfred didn't really have time to draw up a retort for her words before her wand started doing a thing that could no longer be easily ignored. He didn't know what it meant, of course, because he didn't know what she was doing in the first place — and even if she'd explained it, he had never really been good with this sort of magic, anyway.

"What?" he asked, shoulders tensing slightly. "What's that mean? What it's doing?"