While people with ulterior motives were searching all over the venue for Albert, he was taking Isobel on a tour of the "alchemical achievements" in the display cases one by one, taking the opportunity to glean inspiration, ideas, or techniques from other alchemists.
More than a hundred alchemical exhibits dazzled him. There was a wand that claimed to enable wizards with very poor magic control—or even Squibs—to use magic smoothly.
The inventor of that wand had reportedly participated in the competition as well. As it turned out, during a test of the wand by a staff member, it exploded, leaving the staff member and the unfortunate onlookers around him looking utterly disheveled and wretched.
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