Question 5 of 5 Once upon a time, a boy with no magical powers managed to get into
magic school by cheating on the test. After he was admitted, he
studied hard and learned all of the magical incantations by heart, even
though nothing out of the ordinary happened when he spoke the words
aloud. Whenever a test came around, he always found a way to pass it
by performing regular, non-magical stage tricks: pulling rabbits out of
hats, guessing people's ages, and so on.
the school headmasters discovered that the boy had no powers
and kicked him out of the school. He wasn't a true wizard, after all,
Nevertheless, the boy had spent three years fooling real wizards into
thinking that he had powers, so that by the time he was expelled, he
was already the greatest stage magician in the world,
Which transition best fits the blank in the passage?