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Zoerawrr 
Jake ruled.
ZZZZZZZ-zzzzz.
Deciding he should get to work, the boy found a screw with a head… similar to the drill bit. Placing it point down he jammed the drill into it and ZZZZZZ'd the drill… causing the screw to shoot off somewhere else. He'd accidentally put the drill in reverse with all his messing around.
Switching it back again, Jake repeated the action and drilled the screw until it made a funny cracking noise. And, yeah, cracked the wood.
"Wooooooo! Fffifty points!" Jake grinned, ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZzzzzzz'ing the drill in celebration. And then the battery ran out.
"Oops."
"Make that forty five Upstead. You just lost five for messing around and acting foolishly. If I have to speak you again, it will be detention."
He gave the Hufflepuff another 'look.' Oh yeah the badgers were definitely on a roll in this class.
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Harry174 Simon looked at the Professor and smiled, this Professor sure needed to calm down. He grabbed a screw and his power drill, he then looked at Jake again, "I can do that better than you." Simon glared, he grabbed his Power Drill and held the power bit in suddenly well he did have to make sure it worked, all you heard was the drill going round and round. "This reminds me of an F1 car." Simon giggled as he looked at Jake and saw his screw fly off somewhere, now Simon thought that was funny.
Simon decided he should try and put the screw into the wood, making sure that he put the screw on the wood he went and got the screw and started to screw it into the wood, but he put it in too tightly and suddenly the wood started to crack. "Professor what do you do if you accidently crack the wood." He was getting all giddy in this class, he had no idea why but he had thought it was funny when Lawson had shouted at Maranda but he had managed to keep himself from laughing.
"Oh for the love of Merlin, will you two knock it off. This is not a competition to see who has got the biggest drill."
Teenage boys, were ridiculous.
Lawson looked at Simon and he was having this mental picture of walking over to the kid and throttling him which brought a small smile to his face. He shook himself out of his reverie when the kid asked him another question.
"Get another piece of wood" he drawled.
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destinyjazzhands Uh-oh.
That look Lawson gave her was not good. Kinda scary even.
Before the Professor man had a chance to open his mouth, Destiny covered her eyes with her hands. Perhaps if he couldn't see her, she couldn't get in trouble.
As she heard Lawson call her by her last name AND take points from her, she dropped her hands from her eyes and glaaaaared at him. Obviously the hiding thing didn't work out too well, and she now knew that even when you can't be seen, you can still get in trouble. She opened her mouth to complain but shut it quickly. She wasn't going to give him a reason to take MORE points from her.
She did, however, mumble something under her breath. Something that might have sounded like bald and toupee.
Expecting to just get along with her drilling, she fiddled with the screw thing, trying to figure out where it was supposed to go. Jeez, you ask one simple question and--oh for the love of Merlin! The man wasn't finished yelling. Dropping the screw thing, she slowly lifted her head and pouted. She didn't want to use the marshmallow roasters! Grr. Pushing out her stool, she moped her way up to the front stopping when she was standing riiiiiight next to him.
"Professor! Did you know that turtles can breathe through their butts?"
Marcus stared at Destiny and if he wasn't so frustrated with the class he probably would have laughed at what she had said.
Unfortunately he wasn't in the best of moods right now so her little piece of trivia went down like a ton of dragon dung.
"I shudder to think how you know this Destiny but right now I would prefer it if you would keep your mind on the job at hand and that is how to use a screwdriver. Do you think you can do that for more than five seconds?"
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The1HBIC Hearing Mean Lawson yell at Destiny AND take points from her *glares hole through him* Marie decides she better make it look like she was paying attention so she doesn't lose points too.
Picking up the big noisy screwy driver thingy she had laying there she pointed is at Lawson... zzzzZZZZZ. Oh she could have some fun with this thing... Yes she could.
Finding a screwy thing she put the pointy end on the piece of wood then put the noisy screwy driver thing on it. zzz-zzzz-zzzz ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
The screw went flying across the room when she heard what Destiny said.
Bwahahahaha
What the.... Turtles breathe through their butts!? Where does that girl get her information. Then a thought occured to her. If they breathe through their butts does that mean they..... ewwww, no that can't be.
Oh, and now someone was asking her how she knew that. Oh geez kid, don't encourage her.
"MARIE!!" He yelled across the room after witnessing her screw fly across the room. "Do you need to come up to the front as well? Pay attention to what you are doing...please."
When this lesson was over he was going to his office and he was going to lock the door and sit under his desk and meditate or more like bang his head against the wall.
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Balvir "No sir professor, just a minor cut, I'll be fine." Zane said, showing him the mark. It looked like a little cross about a half inch deep in his palm. He thought it looked rather interesting, he was probably going to try and show it off later.
Lawson took out another container of cream and placed on the boy's worktable. "Try that. It will heal that cut right up."
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SenoritaMaxie "But, sir -"
But she couldn't concentrate, the way he kept shouting. That was what Gold wanted to say. But she decided that would be majorly impolite and, keeping back a little sigh, nodded. "Yes, sir." She picked up the power drill again, glad that the fall had not broken it. Of course, she could have fixed it with a simple "Reparo" but, when in the Muggle Studies classroom, do as the muggles do. AND muggles don't get to use charms.
So yes, Gold was glad.
She adjusted the power drill again, picking up a new screw, this time a flat-head one. Placing that against the piece of wood, pointed end down, she started the power drill and drove it in. Once it had been driven in, she raised a hand. "Can I switch the speed to fast, sir?" She asked. Slow was alright, but it was.... well, slow. "I've used a power drill loads of times, before. I don't think I'll make a mess," she added.
Though she guessed Professor Lawson might be cautious, anyway. Still, she hadn't made any messes. Yet.
Lawson's eyes went heavenward and he silently counted to ten once again. "No doubt you probably have Gold but if I let you use the fast speed and then everyone else will want to do it as well and as you probably have witnessed in this class." He looked at Gold and gave her a wry smile. "That really wouldn't be a good idea, now would it?"
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xiiWishiWasYours Selena nodded and picked up the screwdriver from her workstation. The professor looked reeeeeaaaaalllllly mad. She decided it was best to be a good little Slytherin and behave. She walked over to the front and looked at the Professor for further instruction.
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Celandine Oh good. Celandine smiled in relief and headed to the front of the room. The screwdriver looked much less dangerous since it didn't have muggle moving parts. Just muggle still parts.
How Muggles got by without losing their bits was beyond Cela.
"Okay Selena, Cela and Destiny when using the hand screwdriver we are going to have to pre-drill a hole into the wood first." Lawson gave her a quick reassuring smile, "Don't worry you don't have to use the power drill. I have a manual drill here. It looks a bit like a manual egg beater and works the same way." He held up the
manual drill so that they could see what it looked like. "You just place the drill bit against the wood and you wind the handle until you have have the required hole that you need. Why don't you give it a go."
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seusslover14 Kylie's green eyes opened wide as they often did when she was learning. She lightly caressed various parts of the drill as Professor Lawson described them. After he gave them their first task, she took a deep breath and recounted everything the professor had just told them.
It's okay... you made it work before... nothing bad happened...
She took out the drill, with one hand this time, she was about to do as the professor had asked, when it suddenly came to her... weren't you supposed to do something to the wood BEFORE just trying to put the screw in it? Doing what he'd ask would, more likely than not, split the wood... And if her wood split... some of it might lodge straight into her eye. Or get jammed up her palm. Or... or... Maybe she'd drill straight THROUGH her hand...
"Professor? I think I remember something my brother told me about drilling a screw into a piece of wood... Aren't you not supposed to just do it? Like, you increase your chances of splitting the wood doing that? Aren't you supposed to do something first?"
She had no idea what the 'something' was that you were to do first... but if it could save her from a few days in the hospital wing, then all was well. She SUPER hoped she didn't sound like a stubborn brat. She looked around the room once to see if anyone elses wood had split.
"Yes you are correct Kylie. In most cases you would need to pre-drill a hole in the wood first before screwing. But if you have proper wood screws like we do then it is not necessary."
Lawson waved his hand around the classroom, "As you can see we have some very impatient people in our class today so I figured it would be easier to just show them how to drill straight into the wood. If you are careful enough and don't apply excessive pressure while you are drilling then your wood should not split."
Walking up to the board, Marcus gave it a tap with his wand. "Okay on the board is your
homework assignment. Be sure to take note of it please. Now there is still a little time left for you to keep practicing before the end of the lesson."