We become stuck in an uncomfortable paradox; our ambitions have been ignited by greatness, but everything we know of ourselves points to congenital ineptitude.
He had never seen a wizard work things out like this, simply by looking and touching; but Harry had long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.
Idiot interns are down there in my clinic, a clinic dripping with my blood, sweat and tears, grey, and I am not convinced-- not at all convinced-- that they will not burn it down with their ineptitude.