I suppose we have all passed through this fair experience, we must all have had our chance of making magic.

But to most of us it came in the boring beginning of time, and we wasted our best spells on plesiosauri, and protoplasms, and angels with flaming swords, all of whom knew magic too, and were not impressed.

Witches and wizards are now rare, though not so rare as you think.

Remembering nothing, they know nothing, and are not bored.

They have to learn everything from the very beginning, except magic, which is the only really original sin.