"… and then Hermione shot off to the library again for hours, to try and find out more about them."
"The library? Why did she not just google it?"
"Google?"
"Yeah, google. Don't pretend you don't know, dad. You're not grandpa Weasley!"
"I know what google is, but why would you think…?"
"Because, wouldn't it be waaaay easier to use the computer than to go through a ton of books? I mean, sure for magical research the internet is pretty useless, but she was looking up Muggle gargoyles!"
"Erm, yeah… Well, at that point in time we didn't have a computer. Or a tablet, or a phone. And the internet didn't… well, maybe it did exist, but not in a way that the general public could use it. Most people wouldn't know about it; we certainly didn't."
"You're kidding, right, dad…? Really, no internet?"
"No internet, James. Your dad is just that ancient. Ancient enough to have lived in a world where the world wide web didn't just cough up the information you wanted. You know, those dark barbaric times when you had to dig up what you wanted from piles and piles of dank and dusty books."
"Ooh, don't let Hermione hear you call her favourite place 'dank and dusty', Harry! Her revenge will be ruthless! What were you talking about, anyway?"
"Oh, James was curious about the time Ron claimed to have been attacked by a gargoyle and Hermione went on a research spree to prove to him that Muggle gargoyles don't actually move."
"Oh, yes, I remember that! I couldn't say who was more annoyed: Ron, because Hermione wouldn't take him seriously, or Hermione because my brother wouldn't help her research! I can't recall who won the argument, though."
"That's just it. Apparently, they didn't resolve it, and now the argument has resurfaced. With much the same result, I gather."
"Yeah, Rose was telling me about it. Her parents are driving both her and Hugo up the walls with their bickering. Aunt Hermione is up to her ears in books and notes, and uncle Ron is muttering angrily all the time. But I still don't understand why neither of them just googles it!"
"Force of habit, I think. But, hey, why don't you google it. I bet you could find the answer and spare your poor cousins some grief. I do feel for them. It's not a good place to be stuck between those two if they're having an argument!"
It took James and google just two minutes to provide the hours. It took more than two hours to get both Ron and Hermione to accept the results.