Wizardry was the only refuge. Well actually, he was no good at wizardry either but at least he was definitively no good at it. He has always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard. In the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number zero, which wasn't a number at all but if it went away would have a lot larger numbers looking bloody stupid!

Luck is my middle name, mind you, my first name is bad.