fen ; birth mother of fillory (tuzzah) wrote in valloic,
Oh, yeah, he needed a book for a spell to find good children to reward them but the book was in a restricted section of the Library of the Neitherlands. He got the help of some elves but the room it was in was also full of poison so many of them died. He was arrested for murder and possession of restricted material. Regretted all of it for a long time.