The Truth About Magic

Mr Tipkins lost his temper entirely. He smiled, and the smile was the sort of smile you see on the sort of wizard that you don’t want to meet on a dark night. “You want something powerful, do you?” he asked. “Something unusual? Something people will notice, eh? Well, take this!”
When Mr Tipkins, a rather nice wizard from the Department of Wishes, arrives to give a wish to a newborn baby in the village of Widdershins, he isn’t in the best of moods. His uncharacteristic burst of bad temper beings a chain reaction that has consequences no one can forsee.