Searching For A Fantasy Novel From My Youth, Can’t Remember Name Or Author, Was Hoping The Internet Could Help?

I remember the title had the word “magic” in it, but I could be mistaken. Youth fiction, in which a magician visits a court and one of the youth runs off with him to become a magician at magic school. He gets in trouble, casts lightning, summons a demon, and saves the world or something similar. In the end he’s sent on a redemption quest to Serpent Tower (or some variation there-of) in which he’s vowed to not use magic for the duration. I can’t for the life of me remember anything else about the book, except that I really wanted to read the sequel (it’s been a good 9 years since – I remembered it only from some memorabilia I was sorting through)

Ok, What’s This David Copperfield “fountain Of Youth” Gimmick All About?

According to this link, http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/od_u… David Copperfield has conveniently found a fountain of youth at a beach resort he now owns (I wonder why he didn’t find it in someplace common like Trenton, New Jersey?).
Anyhow, I’m just curious: what gimmick could he possibly be using here? I mean, if it is really just water, then how is he planning on bamboozling his first few visitors into thinking, “Whoa, I look younger now!” You see what I mean? Is he secretly going to be adding moisturizer lotion to the fountain, or something that will alter their appearance? Or is he just pushing worthless snake oil here?
(I can’t afford the $300,000 to find out for myself…)

Did David Copperfield Really Find The Fountain Of Youth?

So, the media is reporting that David Copperfield bought some islands and apparently claims to have found the Fountain of Youth on one of them. Now, isn’t this guy into illusion? So couldn’t he realistically make it “appear” that insects and plants are coming back to life, etc.? Tell me what YOU think…