After that and after looking around the shop, Joseph really, really, wanted a wand. I gave in. They had replica wands from each of the characters in the movies, or you could choose your own "interactive" wand that could be used to "make magic" in the Harry Potter areas of Universal. Joseph and I picked out a wand. I let him hold it to see if it felt good in his hand.... kind of his own wand fitting.
Just across from Ollivander's is a bakery where the wand will make a snowman dance across a cake. The kids were crazy excited about Daddy making the snowman move with magic. They were so excited that a lady called her husband over to watch their reaction the third or fourth time we made it happen.
We made magic (or tried, sometimes we couldn't master the spell) all over the Harry Potter area to the delight of the kids.
That evening, when I was trying to get Joseph to bed, he asked me how the wand works. I must add here that they have been watching youtube videos of the "Mystery Magician" because they are really interested in how "magic" really happens. I forget what I told him but he said, "I noticed that there is a thing on the end of the wand that looks like it could be a magnet, and the snowman was metal. Is that how it made the snowman move?"
I explained to his satisfaction how the wand is like a TV remote control and moving it certain ways made the magic happen, just like the remote makes the channels change and the TV turn on and off.
Maybe I ruined the "magic" for him, but if he's smart enough to think of magnets and metals at barely age 5, I'd rather encourage his critical thinking and scientific exploration instead of making up lies to preserve the "magic".
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