"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.
"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.
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?"
"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.
Lawson took out another container of cream and placed on the boy's worktable. "Try that. It will heal that cut right up."
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?"
"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."
"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."