Jo yelling at him and grabbing his arm caused an emotional reaction which at least temporarily blocked out all other considerations. He was still in a strange (possibly vampiric) body and trapped in Muggle London, but for a second he forgot all of that and was just Alfred in the midst of an argument with Jo.
"So frustrating," he snapped. "Like you try to be difficult on purpose. And half the time I think that's true, because if you drive everyone off there's no one to stop you from running away."
"So frustrating," he snapped. "Like you try to be difficult on purpose. And half the time I think that's true, because if you drive everyone off there's no one to stop you from running away."
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER