"Yeah. I'm sure." Howard clearly believes Sirius is just saying that to save face, but he might as well not press the issue. It's not as if there are any house elves here to save anyway, and even if there were that would be their own problem, not Howard's.

He chews the corner of his tongue as he thinks of how to put it. "There are...ideas, floating around. Nothing concrete yet. Why, you feel like pumping them full of abracadabra?"