"Showing off a bit," he says. "I don't really speak any other languages but my gran insisted we learn some Irish. That's just responding to a greeting--'God and Mary to you', literally.

"We're rather rotten with wizards but there's a lot of ordinary folk here too. The ones that I know don't always needs special words for their spells and such. Just a bit of--" He waves his free hand. "Hocus-pocus."