Harry Potter was getting fed up.

He was in his mid-30's and was head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Currently, he was chairing a meeting with some important people in the Ministry and some high-ranking aurors. He had been sitting there listening to everyone discuss strategies for how to avoid having the statute of secrecy broken by the muggles' new "fellytones" that now had cameras, how to deal with muggles with "fire-legs," and how to coordinate with muggle "please-men." At last, he could take no more.

Standing up, Harry called out, "Excuse me, please give me your attention for a moment." Once everyone had sat down, Harry started. "Thank you. I feel like I need to say something here. First, we in the magical world use the same language that those in the muggle world use. We have telescopes; we know what armaments are; we know how to police an area. These are all words that everyone here knows. So can someone please explain to me how it is that you can't recognize them when a muggle uses them?"

Everyone just stares at him in confusion.

"'Fire-leg' makes no goddamn sense. 'Leg?' What do legs have to do with anything? The word is 'firearm.' As in 'armament,' as in 'weapon.' The fire part comes from the fact that those weapons function by using a tiny explosion to propel a projectile at high speeds. The prefix 'tele-' means from a great distance, as I'm sure you all know. 'Phone' is based on the root word 'phonics' which means sound. 'Telephone,' therefore, means 'sound from a great distance.' 'Fellytone' doesn't mean anything and isn't a word; stop saying it. To 'police' is a verb that means to patrol and enforce order. 'Policemen' are men who police. This word has in recent times been shortened to just 'police,' turning the verb 'police' into a noun."

"These words are easy and make sense. The only way all of you are could be getting them wrong all this time is if you are all idiots or if you were intentionally getting them wrong so people don't think you know stuff about muggles. Stop it."

At this, Harry sits back down and just stares at everyone else, well aware that he just called some of the most important people in the wizarding world either stupid or bigoted. That lasts until one of Harry's aurors called out, "How do you know so much about muggles?"

"You're fired."