That's half the point I'm makin'! Weren't you listenin' earlier? For all the unbeliewable things I'we seen and been through, I still know magic to be fake. It's for books, or playin' pretend - fictional things which acknowledge the honest fact that it ain't real.

[A huff.]

And my wand is an empiricist's wand, I'll hawe you know. I know it to be stronger than my old rifle, for example, because I prowed it against the same force. I'm not gonna make up a word, either.