“I drink water. To become the wisest wizard,” the boy replied as if it were the most obvious answer.
Because Elizabeth was puzzled, Miss Harmony tried to explain to her:
“Some rumours say that if you are a pure soul and you speak the truth in a difficult situation, this fountain will fulfil a wish when you sip in its water. And that you could become the wisest. At least that is what the old wizards ... and their legends say. But I say they are just myths, because I do not know someone who had a wish fulfilled by this well. It just managed to help the older ones trick their kids.
The professor got close to Johnny who swallowed the water as cracked earth swallows the first drops of rain.
“Johnny, stop! You have drunk water from the well and you did not become the wisest, as you can see .
