There was more of this Hufflepuff place. Maybe people thought he was cuddly. Like the name. So that's why he was ending up inside that House. ...Something like that. He didn't even know what a House WAS yet, at this point, so such knowledge was probably being squandered on him. "Okay!" he responded with a bright smile nonetheless.

And jutted out his hand to shake. "I'm Doug!" And paused for a few long seconds afterwards, before he finally allowed himself, at the risk of sounding stupid, to ask, "What's a Prefect...?"