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Mell · 06-08-2010, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by PattyH.

The practical fun was about to begin!
Walking to the box at the rear of the class room, Patroclus selected a nice, thick wide piece of off cut lumber to whack with a hammer.....nail into. Patroclus searched his brain, to find something he was angry about, because armed with a hammer he was sure he could beat his anger away, but alas he was rather content with life at the moment. Hmm.
Returning to his desk Patroclus lifted his hammer, in his hand the wooden handle felt worn, small nicks and chunks were missing from repeated use. He didn't mind the feeling at all, it made the hammer feel more powerful, like that it had survived many hammering jobs, many whacks, bangs, and pows!
Placing the offcut on his work bench, he used his empty hand to put his safety googles on his face, he didn't want any riccochetting pieces of wood or nail fly into his eyes, no sir.

The nail looked like a small silver muggle pencil, and to check it wasn't he tried to write his name on the offcut, but found no ink to come out. The nail did however make a large scratch in the grain of the wood. Placing the nail between his fingers like the Professor had demonstrated he gave its head the slightest tap. The pointy end sunk into the wood the tiniest bit. Now came the time to whack it all in. He raised the Hammer up to about the height of his face, and then went to smack the head again, but in a moment of fear, in the last second before contact, he let go of the nail. The heavy end of the hammer whacked the nail, but instead of sinking the rest of it into the wood, all Patroclus' hammer did was bend the nail.
"Oh." he muttered looking around for the answer of what to do next, to rectify the situation. He was unsure whether to pull the nail out wit his teeth, or to use another nail. Hmmmmmmmm.....
"Professor?"

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

Sidney's heart sinks the moment Professor Lawson mentions hammering nails. She can't hammer a nail to save her life. The problem isn't only hitting her finger which she's done on numerous occasions. And boy you only have to do it once to remember how badd it hurts. The real problem is she can't seem to hit the nail the right way. She can only get in the wood so far then it won't move another inch down. Sidney usually ends up bending the nail in two or worse, but this is Muggle Studies Class. Like it or not, she got to give it her best shot, then she can go to the hospital wing in defeat.

Sidney gets up and goes the back of the room. She picks out a piece of wood first. After examing about a dozen pieces, Sidney thinks she's found one that looks soft, sounds soft, and she hopes will love having a nail driven into it. Sid walks back to her desk and sits down. She decides she'd better put her safety google on just in case. You never know when a nail might fly out of your hands. Sidney selects a nail. Hello nail. My name's Sidney. I don't plan on hurting you, but just in case I want to tell you how sorry I am for damaging you in advance. She then puts picks the hammer up with her right hand. Sidney places the nail in the center of the board holding it in place with her left hand. She consentrates in the nail and visualizes in her mind hammer it in the wood. It works for performing magic. Why not hammering nails too? Sid takes a deep breath and lower the hammer down on the nail. The hammer hits the nail with a loud crash. Remarkable the nail goes into the wood. After two more swings the nail stands on its own. Now comes the hard part. Hammering it in the rest of the way. Sidney tries to copy what Professor Lawson did and use three swings. The first one seems to be okay. The nail seems to be still standing upright anyway. I'm not really sure if it move further into the wood or not. Sidney's second try isn't so good. The nail starts to bend to the right just a little bit. Then Sidney really give it a hard swing. That did it. The nail now is bent perfectly to the right side. It's still only about a third of the way in the wood. Sidney looks down at her pitiful nail in defeat. Don't muggles use something similar to a permanet sticking charm? I think they call it wood glue. U-u-u-g-g-g-h-h-h... Glue... I'd probably permanently stick myself to the bird house. Face it Sid. You stink as a do it yourselfer.

Walking around the room and watching each students progress, Lawson paused by a couple of tables. "The reason your nail is bending is because you are either trying to hit it too hard." He looked at Patroclus as he said this. "Or you are not hitting the nail straight."

He gave Sidney and Patroclus a questioning look, "Do you need a hand?"

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Originally Posted by quidditch_captain

Nymphy took his hammer and held it up. He thought it would be easier to hold it with two hands and swing up and down, kind of like a motion made when vigoursly shaking someone's hand with both of your hands.....if that makes sense. But in the end, he decided just to use it the way the professor had showed him. He hit the hammer into the nail, but nothing happened. Maybe he had to hit it harder......

Wow.....Muggle life is so hard without magic. His father was a Muggle, but Nymphy always took it for granted that magic would always be there. "Professor......?" he asked, rasing his hand. "Do muggles actually do this on a regular basis? I mean this is hard and not very practical for use. They must have a better solution.....right?"

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Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu

Bored, Ellie decided she could answer this kids question.

"Well, muggles have this thing, called electricity, and they have electric nail guns and such and it makes it loads easier. You don't need a hammer, you just point the gun and pull the trigger and a nail shoots out." she stuck her tongue out and squinted her eyes, and held her hands out in a gun shape, demonstrating.

Marcus stopped by the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables. "Yes actually they do Nymphy. For small jobs they use this technique and it may be hard at first but after some practice it gets easier."

He then looked at Ellie, "You are correct also but they usually only use a nail gun on larger jobs and as you said they need electricity and that is something we don't have here at Hogwarts."

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Originally Posted by Golden Monkey

William calmly listened to the rest of the questions and answers, having no clue what that last box thing was. It was a good thing others knew though for he jotted down his answers in his notebook with his pen. He loved this pen he thought, with its dark blue ink that stayed in the holder without spilling. These Muggles were brilliant he mused as he finished writing and looked up, listening to professor Lawson as he instructed them on how to properly put in a nail with a hammer. The fun part was beginning he thought looking around sheepishly as he expected a few sore fingers after this was over.

Standing up he walked over to the box with wood in it and picked up a piece, taking a hammer and a few ails - just in case he broke a few. When Lawson meant gently he meant gently, but William didn't know his own strength half the time and so he found himself carefully walking back to his seat and sitting down, placing the piece of wood on the table. They had to do this the Muggle way? It would be so much easier to just use his wand to tap it in he thought. But no, he wanted to build this car toy for Sienna and he was bound to try it the weird way.

Picking up the hammer in his dominate - left hand - he held it loosely looking at it. He had to use the flat heavy part to hammer it in right, not the rounded pointy edge. Okay, no problem he thought. Picking up the long nail he looked at it, seeing it shimmer in the light of the room. Placing the pointy end on the wood he took a breath and held the hammer - the thick heavy part - to the end of the nail and nodded. He could do this. Raising the hammer over his head, well not exactly but close enough he brought it down gently, the sound of metal hitting metal making him cringe.

Tap.

Well he'd hit it, that's for sure he thought and he didn't hit himself either! He could do this he thought a slight smile on his face as he brought it up again, this time with a little more force. Tap. Again he'd hit the nail on the head so to speak and it looked like it was breaking through the wood. Another few gentle taps and he'd be able to bang it in the rest of the way. Lifting it over his head he held his breath as he brought it down, his face full of concentration and...

Bang!

Right on the side of his hand. "Ouch." he muttered, taking his hand off and waving it around in front of him blowing on it. Oh man that hurt! Like seriously stung by a bee hurt! Cringing again he shook it off, he was a man after all and the tears in his eyes? Yeah that was just him being foolish. Lifting the nail up, he placed it in the small hole he'd made before he hurt his hand and continued, this time going more gentle than before.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Three more gentle taps and it was in enough for him to baby his hand as he looked down at his work. Holding the hammer in a more firmer grip he breathed in, ignoring the pain from his slightly swelling hand and began pounding the nail into the wood, "Tap tap tap goes the ant ant ant" he sang to himself as he tapped the nail, watching as it went in further and further until finally only the head remained. He'd done it and it only cost him a slightly sore hand.

Marcus rushed over to William's table and gave him a concerned look, "Are you alright William? Nothing broken I hope."

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Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd

Oh goody!
THEY WERE STARTIIIIIIIIIIING!

As soon as Mr Lawson had finished, she was one of the first to hop off her desk and run back to get the piece of board and nail. Returning with the items, Miranda grabbed the hammer firmly with her right hand and was totally excited to beat the nail into submission. Mwahahaha!

She placed the piece of wood at the center of the desk, took the nail between her left hand index finger and thumb. Her eyes widened and she got a slight crazy look before she aimed, brought the hammer downwards and bopped the nail - making the tip penetrate the wood and it was SO 'standing on its own'. HeHEheHeHEEE!

Doned!
BANG!
Aaaaand then she started bashing the crap out of the nail, totally making it crooked. But she kept hammering, denting the piece of wood and a bit of the desk in the process due to her thrashing, until the crooked nail was wedged in the wood...in a horizontal position. The opposite of how it was supposed to be.

Bang! BANG BANG!
She was making quite a noise, but she didn't care. Merlin this feels good! Beating the crap out of a defenseless nail and wood. Huzzah!

Hah! This might be better than chopping that wood Mr Masterson had 'denied' her to get her frustration out. Hehe.

BANG!!
She repeated this one more time. A new nail, equally as crooked and wrong as the first.

bang! bANg! BANG!!

As noisy as the room was with all the banging from the students, Marcus could only hear one very particularly loud banging and it was coming from the other side of the room. He began to make his way over to that very loud banging, horrified at what he was seeing.

"MIRANDA! MIRANDA" he called out as he made his way over to the Hufflepuff who was hell bent on putting that nail not only through the piece of wood but the table and the floor by the looks of it.

"MIRAAAAAAAANDA!" he ended up yelling as he stood in front of her work table. "For the love of Merlin, didn't I just tell the whole class not to belt the crap out of their nail? You are lucky your hand wasn't in the way."

Oh brother!

Some of these kids had anger issues, he was sure of it.

"Does anyone need a hand? Or are you all ready to move onto the next stage?"

06-08-2010, 02:54 AM	#134 (permalink)
Mell Kappa Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: GMT +10 Posts: 13,162 Hogwarts RPG Name: Andrew James Preston Seventh Year x7	Melly Bean \| aussiegirl \| a Supernatural freak Quote: Originally Posted by PattyH. The practical fun was about to begin! Walking to the box at the rear of the class room, Patroclus selected a nice, thick wide piece of off cut lumber to whack with a hammer.....nail into. Patroclus searched his brain, to find something he was angry about, because armed with a hammer he was sure he could beat his anger away, but alas he was rather content with life at the moment. Hmm. Returning to his desk Patroclus lifted his hammer, in his hand the wooden handle felt worn, small nicks and chunks were missing from repeated use. He didn't mind the feeling at all, it made the hammer feel more powerful, like that it had survived many hammering jobs, many whacks, bangs, and pows! Placing the offcut on his work bench, he used his empty hand to put his safety googles on his face, he didn't want any riccochetting pieces of wood or nail fly into his eyes, no sir. The nail looked like a small silver muggle pencil, and to check it wasn't he tried to write his name on the offcut, but found no ink to come out. The nail did however make a large scratch in the grain of the wood. Placing the nail between his fingers like the Professor had demonstrated he gave its head the slightest tap. The pointy end sunk into the wood the tiniest bit. Now came the time to whack it all in. He raised the Hammer up to about the height of his face, and then went to smack the head again, but in a moment of fear, in the last second before contact, he let go of the nail. The heavy end of the hammer whacked the nail, but instead of sinking the rest of it into the wood, all Patroclus' hammer did was bend the nail. "Oh." he muttered looking around for the answer of what to do next, to rectify the situation. He was unsure whether to pull the nail out wit his teeth, or to use another nail. Hmmmmmmmm..... "Professor?" Quote: Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley Sidney's heart sinks the moment Professor Lawson mentions hammering nails. She can't hammer a nail to save her life. The problem isn't only hitting her finger which she's done on numerous occasions. And boy you only have to do it once to remember how badd it hurts. The real problem is she can't seem to hit the nail the right way. She can only get in the wood so far then it won't move another inch down. Sidney usually ends up bending the nail in two or worse, but this is Muggle Studies Class. Like it or not, she got to give it her best shot, then she can go to the hospital wing in defeat. Sidney gets up and goes the back of the room. She picks out a piece of wood first. After examing about a dozen pieces, Sidney thinks she's found one that looks soft, sounds soft, and she hopes will love having a nail driven into it. Sid walks back to her desk and sits down. She decides she'd better put her safety google on just in case. You never know when a nail might fly out of your hands. Sidney selects a nail. Hello nail. My name's Sidney. I don't plan on hurting you, but just in case I want to tell you how sorry I am for damaging you in advance. She then puts picks the hammer up with her right hand. Sidney places the nail in the center of the board holding it in place with her left hand. She consentrates in the nail and visualizes in her mind hammer it in the wood. It works for performing magic. Why not hammering nails too? Sid takes a deep breath and lower the hammer down on the nail. The hammer hits the nail with a loud crash. Remarkable the nail goes into the wood. After two more swings the nail stands on its own. Now comes the hard part. Hammering it in the rest of the way. Sidney tries to copy what Professor Lawson did and use three swings. The first one seems to be okay. The nail seems to be still standing upright anyway. I'm not really sure if it move further into the wood or not. Sidney's second try isn't so good. The nail starts to bend to the right just a little bit. Then Sidney really give it a hard swing. That did it. The nail now is bent perfectly to the right side. It's still only about a third of the way in the wood. Sidney looks down at her pitiful nail in defeat. Don't muggles use something similar to a permanet sticking charm? I think they call it wood glue. U-u-u-g-g-g-h-h-h... Glue... I'd probably permanently stick myself to the bird house. Face it Sid. You stink as a do it yourselfer. Walking around the room and watching each students progress, Lawson paused by a couple of tables. "The reason your nail is bending is because you are either trying to hit it too hard." He looked at Patroclus as he said this. "Or you are not hitting the nail straight." He gave Sidney and Patroclus a questioning look, "Do you need a hand?" Quote: Originally Posted by quidditch_captain Nymphy took his hammer and held it up. He thought it would be easier to hold it with two hands and swing up and down, kind of like a motion made when vigoursly shaking someone's hand with both of your hands.....if that makes sense. But in the end, he decided just to use it the way the professor had showed him. He hit the hammer into the nail, but nothing happened. Maybe he had to hit it harder...... Wow.....Muggle life is so hard without magic. His father was a Muggle, but Nymphy always took it for granted that magic would always be there. "Professor......?" he asked, rasing his hand. "Do muggles actually do this on a regular basis? I mean this is hard and not very practical for use. They must have a better solution.....right?" Quote: Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu Bored, Ellie decided she could answer this kids question. "Well, muggles have this thing, called electricity, and they have electric nail guns and such and it makes it loads easier. You don't need a hammer, you just point the gun and pull the trigger and a nail shoots out." she stuck her tongue out and squinted her eyes, and held her hands out in a gun shape, demonstrating. Marcus stopped by the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables. "Yes actually they do Nymphy. For small jobs they use this technique and it may be hard at first but after some practice it gets easier." He then looked at Ellie, "You are correct also but they usually only use a nail gun on larger jobs and as you said they need electricity and that is something we don't have here at Hogwarts." Quote: Originally Posted by Golden Monkey William calmly listened to the rest of the questions and answers, having no clue what that last box thing was. It was a good thing others knew though for he jotted down his answers in his notebook with his pen. He loved this pen he thought, with its dark blue ink that stayed in the holder without spilling. These Muggles were brilliant he mused as he finished writing and looked up, listening to professor Lawson as he instructed them on how to properly put in a nail with a hammer. The fun part was beginning he thought looking around sheepishly as he expected a few sore fingers after this was over. Standing up he walked over to the box with wood in it and picked up a piece, taking a hammer and a few ails - just in case he broke a few. When Lawson meant gently he meant gently, but William didn't know his own strength half the time and so he found himself carefully walking back to his seat and sitting down, placing the piece of wood on the table. They had to do this the Muggle way? It would be so much easier to just use his wand to tap it in he thought. But no, he wanted to build this car toy for Sienna and he was bound to try it the weird way. Picking up the hammer in his dominate - left hand - he held it loosely looking at it. He had to use the flat heavy part to hammer it in right, not the rounded pointy edge. Okay, no problem he thought. Picking up the long nail he looked at it, seeing it shimmer in the light of the room. Placing the pointy end on the wood he took a breath and held the hammer - the thick heavy part - to the end of the nail and nodded. He could do this. Raising the hammer over his head, well not exactly but close enough he brought it down gently, the sound of metal hitting metal making him cringe. Tap. Well he'd hit it, that's for sure he thought and he didn't hit himself either! He could do this he thought a slight smile on his face as he brought it up again, this time with a little more force. Tap. Again he'd hit the nail on the head so to speak and it looked like it was breaking through the wood. Another few gentle taps and he'd be able to bang it in the rest of the way. Lifting it over his head he held his breath as he brought it down, his face full of concentration and... Bang! Right on the side of his hand. "Ouch." he muttered, taking his hand off and waving it around in front of him blowing on it. Oh man that hurt! Like seriously stung by a bee hurt! Cringing again he shook it off, he was a man after all and the tears in his eyes? Yeah that was just him being foolish. Lifting the nail up, he placed it in the small hole he'd made before he hurt his hand and continued, this time going more gentle than before. Tap. Tap. Tap. Three more gentle taps and it was in enough for him to baby his hand as he looked down at his work. Holding the hammer in a more firmer grip he breathed in, ignoring the pain from his slightly swelling hand and began pounding the nail into the wood, "Tap tap tap goes the ant ant ant" he sang to himself as he tapped the nail, watching as it went in further and further until finally only the head remained. He'd done it and it only cost him a slightly sore hand. Marcus rushed over to William's table and gave him a concerned look, "Are you alright William? Nothing broken I hope." Quote: Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd Oh goody! THEY WERE STARTIIIIIIIIIIING! As soon as Mr Lawson had finished, she was one of the first to hop off her desk and run back to get the piece of board and nail. Returning with the items, Miranda grabbed the hammer firmly with her right hand and was totally excited to beat the nail into submission. Mwahahaha! She placed the piece of wood at the center of the desk, took the nail between her left hand index finger and thumb. Her eyes widened and she got a slight crazy look before she aimed, brought the hammer downwards and bopped the nail - making the tip penetrate the wood and it was SO 'standing on its own'. HeHEheHeHEEE! Doned! BANG! Aaaaand then she started bashing the crap out of the nail, totally making it crooked. But she kept hammering, denting the piece of wood and a bit of the desk in the process due to her thrashing, until the crooked nail was wedged in the wood...in a horizontal position. The opposite of how it was supposed to be. Bang! BANG BANG! She was making quite a noise, but she didn't care. Merlin this feels good! Beating the crap out of a defenseless nail and wood. Huzzah! Hah! This might be better than chopping that wood Mr Masterson had 'denied' her to get her frustration out. Hehe. BANG!! She repeated this one more time. A new nail, equally as crooked and wrong as the first. bang! bANg! BANG!! As noisy as the room was with all the banging from the students, Marcus could only hear one very particularly loud banging and it was coming from the other side of the room. He began to make his way over to that very loud banging, horrified at what he was seeing. "MIRANDA! MIRANDA" he called out as he made his way over to the Hufflepuff who was hell bent on putting that nail not only through the piece of wood but the table and the floor by the looks of it. "MIRAAAAAAAANDA!" he ended up yelling as he stood in front of her work table. "For the love of Merlin, didn't I just tell the whole class not to belt the crap out of their nail? You are lucky your hand wasn't in the way." Oh brother! Some of these kids had anger issues, he was sure of it. "Does anyone need a hand? Or are you all ready to move onto the next stage?" __________________