He enjoys his passion for magic so he can't exactly complain. Plus, he kind of brought this onto himself. Mentioning magic was akin to mentioning his wife. Strange was just going to talk.

"It's a shame then that you can't just turn all of the Harbingers into little birds for now if it takes that much effort," or maybe something easier to catch. "Carly managed to turn into a hummingbird and I wish I had the thought at the time to grab the nearest object to trap her inside of it."