'For more than fifty years I haven't seen anything like this. Or ... better said, I've never seen anything like this before."

Elizabeth and Johnny, sitting at the same desk, stared at Mr. Lionel Squisshy as he swung that wand, as he kept twirling and twisting it, unblinking his eyes with the two huge zooms, gazing at that wand.

'Not even a crack. Not even a ... scratch."

And again he started to spin and twist it.

Alexander, who was also close to the three, could not ...