"Wands are more problematic, I imagine," he pointed out, rather than admit he really couldn't pretend to know what a laptop computer was. "Unless you can jinx someone with a mobile phone?" He couldn't quite see what she meant to do with the castle, which gave him pause. It was possible she was onto him. He struck anyway, dashing her knight to pieces and beginning the advance.
Original was amusingly diplomatic. "A bit behind, a bit ahead? You seem to deal with the students admirably, from what I can tell. And the faculty. It hasn't hindered you at all." Neither were skills that he had though, and here he was.