Sir Terry, that's cheating.

Well, it must be. Everyone knows that if you start a book with an info-dump, the readers get bored. If you start with no action, or dialogue, just the thoughts of your PoV character, you have no hope. Do that for many pages, showing facts that anyone who's read the previous books knows anyway.... so how come two hours later I come back up out of "I shall wear midnight", stiff and aching because I haven't moved in that time except to turn pages, and crying slightly at the last word? Using magic to write a book is cheating, and I think you did that.