Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.