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The Magician with the 1000 Hats in a top hat and long coat

The resizer

The Magician with the 1000 Hats

The man you call when a Routemaster needs resizing before tea at Buckingham Palace. His spells are enthusiastic rather than accurate.

First appears in
Volume 3
Fun fact
A thousand hats, and not one of them has ever helped him get a spell right first time.

When the Queen invites a double-decker bus to tea, somebody has to solve the geometry. That somebody is the Magician with the 1000 Hats, whose magic is generous, energetic and only occasionally the right size.

He is the engine of the third book’s best set piece, and the reason a royal invitation nearly becomes a nightmare.

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