SPOILER!!: Professor!Ruffles
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AmbiguouslyMe
Preston observed the class before ducking behind the curtain once more. Emerging, he levitated a pile of wooden boards and settled them down in the middle of the room.
"You're all doing quite well, even those of you who managed to sever your worms," he said, giving a pointed look. "If you haven't gotten it yet, you can still keep working, but I'd like to interuppt you for a moment so those who have been successful can continue."
Picking up a board, he placed it on his desk, before levitating a worm from the bucket. "Tacque," he said softly, turning the worm into a nail. "I'm going to teach you a spell now that utilizes your wand like a hammer. The incantation is malleus and the movement is just as you would tap with a hammer."
Picking up the nail, he held it against the wooden board before intoning, "Malleus," and repeating the motion several times, as if he were hammering the nail. Between his fingers, the metal slid into the wood smoothly, though the wand did not touch it.
"Please take care with this spell. I don't want to send anyone to the hospital with smushed fingers. Gesture lightly as if you were tapping lightly. The force you use with your wand would be like the force of the hammer."
Holstering his wand, he gestured to them. "When you think you have the nail right, come and get a board and see. If you focused too much on appearance but not on structure, your nail will smush when you try to hammer it."
Treyen couldn't believe what he was hearing. The wand as a hammer?! That was pretty wicked!
Forget about the transfiguring a worm into a nail, a smushy nail his was, so he'll have to keep on working on that for a little while, but the hammer thing was the most important thing from the class.
"Professor, I have a question" he said, arm and hand in the air,
"With the spell...the wand works as a hammer...for everything? I mean, does it replace the hammer completely?" yes, he had an example, wait up,
"Like, say, we encounter a troll, then we could hit it with our wand but it'll feel like a hammer, right?" aha, encountering a troll was way better than hitting a random person, no?