He's a little stuffy that way, [she says affectionately, and then leans in with interest to examine the image of the wand on her screen.]

Magic is supposed to follow the laws of science, you know. At least mine does. It obeys conservation of mass and physics and all that, it's just hard to tell, watching it. But I don't think it's funny if your wand has a reasonable explanation to it somewhere-- the light of hope has probably powered other things before.