Textbook

When the last young wizard's data had been recorded by Ms. Handy, Allen waved a hand casually. Dozens of books with blue covers and bronze reliefs, resembling illuminated manuscripts, floated in front of every wizard.

"Dumbledore used that trick before, too, but he used a nonverbal spell then, and he used a wand. Allen's casting wandlessly." Harry's eyes burned with excitement, but Neville beside him gave no response.

Harry looked at Neville in confusion and found him staring, entranced, at the book floating in front of him.

"Wizards use wands to channel magic, which makes the effects of spells more precise and effective. Only powerful and highly skilled wizards can reliably master difficult wandless magic. Transfiguration and Charms are usually hard to perform without a wand, and if the handling isn't accurate enough, it can easily cause unintended consequences. Even I can only cast a few minor Charms with that technique." It was Hermione who answered Harry. "However, wands are magical tools invented in Europe, so before wands spread to other places, the wizards there didn't rely on this tool when using magic: Native Americans had already developed their own magical system before European colonists arrived, and they didn't need to use wands; African wizards only accepted wands in the twentieth century, and even today, wands aren't necessary for them to cast magic. Although African wizards' wandless casting replaces the wand with casting gestures that take longer, so it can't be compared with Allen's true wandless casting, or the few wandless techniques Dumbledore has displayed."

And once Harry looked, his gaze fixed on the book. Large bronze reliefs of the Omniscience Mark spread across it, and the rotating Eye of Providence at the very center seemed to possess endless magic, drawing the young wizards' attention until they could hardly tear