I used the wand to accost a certain spoiler and after hitting it, everything broke and the wand's magic beams became frozen in the air. Eventually I couldn't move the wizard either, though restart still worked.
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I treated it as a in-universe punishment for magicking a poor, defenceless spoiler! I also chose to believe that the magician was wearing a hi-viz jacket while going about all that perilous hole-filling.