Oops. Olly hadn't meant for Professor Myers to overhear him talking to Noelle. He felt kind of bad that he was sort of insulting his lesson. Luckily he didn't take it that way and thought it was actually a valid concern. Actually, it seemed like several other students shared the same concern. OH NO HAD HE MADE PROFESSOR MYERS CRY?!

Maybe he had accidentally been hit by a sadness charm. Olly was going to choose that was the case because he didn't know what he could have done to make him sad. PLEASE DON'T BE SAD.

He held off on doing the spell for a moment as he waited for some more explanation on why this was a necessary evil. He would decide if he agreed that it was a necessary evil. The tears made people really sad? A deep mourning loss seemed pretty terrible. Olly regarded the tree apprehensively. He definitely was not going to be drinking any of that. So far it didn't really seem like there were any good uses for that. Why would they want to make people sad? What kind of potion would he want to make out of this?

"Would it be possible to put it in a potion and somehow reverse its effects? Make a cheering potion with it somehow? Or if you add it to another potion you could feel whatever those effects are and also be...sad?" He still didn't see why this was super useful.