With her heart in her throat, the witch failed to realized what irony she'd just caused upon the man, and she regarded him with a look of great exasperation. "Wha-?" she replied, glancing around frantically. "I - no, of course not!" Why would it be a joke? Birds had escaped from Podmore and they were under her watch, this was no joking matter.

It was only after realizing where she was – a place where muggles frequented that she quickly corrected her posture as well as her tone (well, as much as she could) and fumbled over her words to explain herself. "No, no not at all sir, I apologize, I just..." Ooohh there was no time to go through such ridiculous pleasantries! Amelia took a breath to keep from passing out from panic before continuing. "No, please, I look after the aviary at the gardens and they've all just escaped." She explained, adding a clumsy bob of a curtsey to punctuate her apologies to the rather flummoxed man in front of her.