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Loud, blaring music can be heard coming from the open Transfiguration classroom. It's beckoning you to enter....?
Shaw, dressed in a long alligator skin cloak, has seated himself in a desk at the back of the room. The desk is turned so that he can see everyone that enters and no one will ever be at his back. He's removed his hat and his head shines a little from the incoming sunlight. The rest of the room is typical: desks in rows, chalkboard, books, dust.
No directions are given, no friendly smiles. Enter if you're up for learning a little something something from Shaw. But I wouldn't interrupt until the song was over if I were you...
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She was at least right on one thing: PROFESSOR Shaw, was crazy. What in Merlin's beard did he just transfigure that desk into? It had pointy things on it. Actually, it looked like a giant butter knife.
Scooting off the desk and sitting in the seat, the Slytherin girl glanced over at Josh as the Professor said something about..something. Saw? Shaw. Shaaaaawww...she was going to yawn if she said it like that. "Shaw..." Well now, he was a first to not want to be called Professor.
That was kinda awesome she supposed. A professor not wanting to be called a Professor. It was too bad he was crazy though.
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He swished his cloak through the rows, always peering over his shoulder to his back, until he reached the front of the room. Once there, he leaned his back against the chalkboard until his song finished.
In the blink of an eye, he flicked his wand and turned the front desk into a chainsaw.
"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
Vashti had listened curiously as the professor - er, man? person? - responded strangely to the other students calling him "professor". What was his problem? Why didn't he seem to like-
Merlin's beard!
He'd just turned a desk in the front - and therefore near her since she was sitting up front - into a chainsaw.
O_o
"Shaaaaaaww," she repeated with the rest of the class, though eyeing the chainsaw-desk a little ways away. Merlin, why did she sit up front?! Oh right. Anakin. It was ALL his fault.
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Rain walked into the mysterious classroom. Ahh. Music at last. But the hauntedness was a little too cliche. The whole "Enter if you dare" pulled her in even more. Giving a quick nod to the professor, she danced across the room, setting first impressions aside. Glancing up she from her high-tops she saw one of her only friends.
"Hey Nika!!!" She pratically yelled. She glanced nervously at the teacher and realised that yelling was a no-no. Oopsies! Oh well. She had spunk and a streak of rebellion. What was there to do about it?
"HIYA RAIN!" Nika shouted back at her. Hmpm. This professor wasn't very nice so she was going to shout just to tick him off. How do you like her now!?
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"WRONG."
Shaw hummed LOUDLY over the blare of the music and the people trying their damndest to get him KILLED.
He swished his cloak through the rows, always peering over his shoulder to his back, until he reached the front of the room. Once there, he leaned his back against the chalkboard until his song finished.
In the blink of an eye, he flicked his wand and turned the front desk into a chainsaw.
"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
"But I only said hello?" What was so "WRONG" about that. Hmpm. Don't like very much "Shaw".
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"Glad you made it out alive!" With the entrance of THIS young man, Shaw got up, put his cup away, and drew his wand.
Shaw hummed LOUDLY over the blare of the music and the people trying their damndest to get him KILLED.
He swished his cloak through the rows, always peering over his shoulder to his back, until he reached the front of the room. Once there, he leaned his back against the chalkboard until his song finished.
In the blink of an eye, he flicked his wand and turned the front desk into a chainsaw.
"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
What the.... Had he been in any danger? This professor really was a nutter. Sinking down into his chair he wanted to hide as the professor spoke to him and then pulled out his wand.
Then he was walking around acting weird...as per normal. "Shaw," he muttered. Yup this guy was certifiably insane. His eyes widened at the chainsaw and then went back to the professor. Maybe...he should have stayed in his dorm today.
Shaw hummed LOUDLY over the blare of the music and the people trying their damndest to get him KILLED.
He swished his cloak through the rows, always peering over his shoulder to his back, until he reached the front of the room. Once there, he leaned his back against the chalkboard until his song finished.
In the blink of an eye, he flicked his wand and turned the front desk into a chainsaw.
"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
OHMYMERLIN!
The professor was BONKERS and there was a chainsaw! Peyton regreted sitting at the front of the classroom. What if he...he cut her in....The girl furrowed her eyebrows and simply stared at the chainsaw.
SHE WAS TELLING!
She was going to tell her daddy, the Headmaster, her grandparents and even her MOM! She really wanted to be at an ice cream shop instead of in the presence of a lunatic.
Without thinking, Peyton just did what he said. It was better to keep the man happy rather than angry. "SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW," she repeated, her brown orbs staring at him innocently. Could he just transfigure the table back to how it was?
So he doesn't like to be called Sir or Professor. No formality, whatsoever? That's quite weird you know. Students usually don't act like so close to their professors. But Jeanne didn't complain about that. It's quite fun to call your professors by their last name "Shaw" she blurted out with a smile. She wanted to just try it.
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"NO. Am I raven? Do I look like raven? DO IT? NO."
Arya just STARED a bit wide-eyed at the man and his.... response. IF it could be called that. Did he mean an actual raven, or a RAVENclaw?
She decided it best not to answer and went back to twirling her wand. Knowing or not knowing the man, he wouldn't respond well to her.
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Originally Posted by Shaw
He swished his cloak through the rows, always peering over his shoulder to his back, until he reached the front of the room. Once there, he leaned his back against the chalkboard until his song finished.
In the blink of an eye, he flicked his wand and turned the front desk into a chainsaw.
"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
He could respond by turning her into a chainsaw like he just did his desk. For fear of her own desk, she pushed back from it a bit and kept her bag against her chair. Shaw. She got it, and would never be calling crazy professor again.
But WHY would he teach student but not want to be called what he was, professor? "Shaw."
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Shaw hummed LOUDLY over the blare of the music and the people trying their damndest to get him KILLED.
He swished his cloak through the rows, always peering over his shoulder to his back, until he reached the front of the room. Once there, he leaned his back against the chalkboard until his song finished.
In the blink of an eye, he flicked his wand and turned the front desk into a chainsaw.
"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
Wow.....this guy was different!
Patroclus had called professor's by their first names in the past, but never to their faces, and then with the last names he had always been taught it rude to adress someone with out a title, this was something he was going to struggle to get use too.
"Sure, Shaw" Hold up, they were the same word....just different spellings, did that mean that Shaw though people were talking to him, when they said sure?
Patroclus could see this was going to be a very unusual lesson.
"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
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"Sh... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
Theodore drew out the odd name in unison with the rest of the students, his blue-eyed gaze glued on the menacing chainsaw. He scooted back in his chair a wee bit, not wanting to get too close to that dangerous piece of muggle invention. He wanted to keep all of his fingers and toes, thank you very much.
"Erm!" He piped up. "Chainsaws are good for cutting things, making noise, erm... and people use them to hurt other people." He had a short bout of courage to speak to the teacher but his insides writhed with terror. Theodore nearly regretted speaking up in the first place.
The guy was crazy. That's all there was to it. Absolutely insane.
"Chainsaws cut things." Dallin answered bluntly. "You, uh, changed the desk into a chainsaw so you could vandalize the chalkboard with your name." Were those the only questions? Or... oh!
"Transfiguration is transfiguring one object into another. Like that desk into a... chainsaw." Sure.
"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
Hateya resisted the urge to clap her hands over her ears as Shaw started up and used the chainsaw. Then she blinked. Shaw? Chainsaw? ChainShaw?
Yup. It was stuck in her head.
Hateya put her hand up, "You made it a chainsaw to defend yourself against gravity cows!"
Anakin's eyes widened as the SHAAAAW person literally picked up the chain saw and ETCHED HIS NAME, into the black board. The boy would be lying if he were to say he wasn't a little scared for his safety right now, Vashti's too. Couldn't she have sat like, BEHIND him?
Anakin had even MORE reason than just understanding the lesson to keep his eye on SHAAW CAREFULLY. Because this guy was off his rocker. And who KNEW what he'd do to them. GAH.
Raising his hand up slightly, Anakin blinked a few times at Shaw before proceding to answer the questions. "A chainsaw is usually good for hacking up wood." And in horror movies, people. "I suspect you turned the desk into one because you are teaching us transfiguration, and through what you just did it was an example?" And it was sort of ironic to turn a WOODEN DESK, into a CHAINSAW. "We are here to learn transfiguration, which is using magic to turn one object into another. Such as an cup to a rat." Or a desk to a chainsaw.
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"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
Jimbo wasn't sure whether he should be afraid of Mr. Shaw or respect him.
And what did he mean, we might be attacked?
But he knew the answer to this question. "A chainsaw is good for cutting things up, like you just did to the chalkboard." Jimbo said, not bothering to raise his hand. He figured he should try and answer the other questions too. "You changed that desk into a chainsaw...to demonstrate transfiguration? Transfiguration is turning objects or animals or anything in between into something else entirely. We are here to learn transfiguration."
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Oakey just sat there mouth wide open, Shaw had just chainsawed his own name onto the chalkboard. He now regretted his curiosity he had earlier and wished he had stayed at the Practice Pitch. Just his luck that the guy was a maniac.
Peyton tightened her lips to stop them from wibbling. She was NOT going to demonstrate fear in front of this fool. He was insane.
O_O
And his actions showed that. He needed to be locked up at St. Mungos in a high security vault surrounded by charms that would keep him there FOREVER! He was dangerous. Look at him go with that chainsaw. They should be illegal to use at a school!
"It's a chainsaw and it's used to cut wood." she answered part of the question and the decided to stay quiet. She was not going to risk loosing a finger or hand. She liked her body parts and prefered to keep them intact.
"Chainsaws are good for" Jeanne decided to answer his questions. "...cutting trees?" well it's one of the answers right. It is after all a device created to cut down trees or possibly something else that she doesn't know of. "Transfiguration..." wait! were they allowed to answer what he's asking?
hehe.
"is the ability or the art of changing a form of a certain object to a different one... Shaw" again, amused by just calling her Professor by his last name.
"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
Ivan's eyes turned as wide as saucers as he saw the nutty professor pick up the chainsaw and start to carve his name into the chalk board. Sitting straight up alertly he looked around. Maybe he should go get the headmaster.... This guy needed St. Mungo's not to be teaching here.
"A chainsaw...is good for cutting things. Usually wood." Not chalk boards. You changed it because you're crazy, though he didn't deem it appropriate to say that. "We're here to learn to change objects and things into something else. Like you did with the desk." Could he leave now? Yup he really wanted to go.
Mia couldn't decide if this guy was extremely crazy or just extremely cool. The way he used that chainsaw was awesome though. She wanted to be able to do that. So that she could carve her name into a chalkboard. Raising her hand when he fired off about half a dozen questions, Mia attemtped her answers. "A chainsaw is a mechanical saw that can be carried around and it used mostly for cutting down trees and wood. I am guessing you changed the desk so you could show us how awesome transfiguration is and transfiguration is turning an object into something else."
WAIT. What? This man's name was just.. Shaw? That makes no sense. He HAS to have a last name. MAYBE HE'S SOME SORT OF SECRET AGENT ON A SUPAH SECRET HOGWARTIAN MISSION! That'd be cool. But then again.. he doesn't seem like the type. Jayce frowned and twisted in his seat, refusing to sit still. He couldn't help it.
This dude was.. kind of insane. OMIGAWSH. He brought a chainsaw to class? NO. BETTER. He changed a desk into a chainsaw. THIS DUDE WAS AWESOME. Jayce vowed to be like this dude when he grew up.
AND OH NOOES. He turned it on? And.. put his name in the chalkboard. O_______O Yeap, that did it. Jay's determined to be a mini-me of Shaw. "Chainsaws cut stuff. Like wood.. and stuff." He beamed. That's right. Wait. Why did he change a desk into a chainsaw? "OHH I KNOW!" he flailed. "To show us that wood can cut itself by becoming a chainsaw." Yeapp. He was smart. Next question! Why were they here? "Uhh.." tough question. "To.. show us what chainsaws are?" And tell us your name. And the last question. "Errr.. The.. magical way of changing stuff into.. other stuff." BEEEAAAM. He answered them all.
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He was laughing evilly, in from how she heard it. Why else would he be laughing about such a machine and raising it above his head. Merlin it was a good thing she'd sat as far back as she could from him. Her eyes drifting to the students who'd chose similar seats, she found Ivan not far away.
What were they doing here? Because for some reason, Transfiguration was a required class? Was this transfiguration? Not from classes she'd been in so far. Muttering to herself, she shook her head, fingering her wand with her finger tips.
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"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
Funny how his teacher decided to cut tongues if ever they address him formally.
"Shaw" Jonathan started to answer his question "A chain saw is a motor device that can cut down wood or trees." and looking to him up front, he change his desk into a chainsaw "Well, this class is called Transfiguration, the art of changing a particular object into another particular object such as what you just did." he answered.
You KNEW things were bad when Ellie felt safer with Jacob than with someone else. Chainsaws were DANGEROUS. And through all the things she imagined her Captain doing with one, it was SCARIER when a TEACHER actually executed them.
Though, in her head, Jacob carved his OWN name and it was in the Pitch. He was promptly escorted to St. Mungos by Vindictus. And never came back.
Happy days.
But as long as he kept the chainsaw THERE, and Ellie stayed HERE, all was well.
As Shaw continued...that was too many questions. Too many all at once. "Chainsaws cut trees. And chalkboards." Apparently.
"And transfiguration is," Okay really. They had gone over the definition year after year and yet...Ellie always felt like she was missing something, "when you change the physical appearance of an object. Change it to something else." Right? Close?
And since Ellie only heard, or remembered, the first and last question asked, she fell silent. Minus the tapping of her wand.
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"My name is Shaw. Just Shaw. Say it with me now."
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW."
"No Mr. No Professor. No Sir. Just Shaw. Got it?"
Oh.
My.
Merlin.
Who in the name of Hades was teaching them now!? Tate must have hired this one while blindfolded and with ears full of cotton balls. Sierra groaned and then slid down in her seat. She, unlike most of the others, just wasn't amused by this man's outrageous behavior. She just wanted to leave class and return to the no-nonsense atmosphere of the common room.
Shaw had a long way to go before he impressed her, and so Sierra found herself drawing out his name almost like it was one, looooong yawn. She even patted her mouth as she said it just as she would while yawning. "Shaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww," she yawned.
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"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
...attacked?
Sierra's eyebrows lifted in surprise, and then she eyed this man as if he was suddenly a puzzle to be figured out. Just who was he working for, hmm? When the large object, whatever it was, roared to life, Sierra instinctively drew her wand just a little. She glanced down and saw it was poking out her holster, so she shoved it back in and then stared at the roaring object.
"Transfiguration is changing the way something looks," she said, her hand raised. Although, could he even hear her? Could she even hear herself!? "...and you just pretty much marred a perfectly good chalk board."...and why was she here?! Now that was a question she'd love to have answered, as well...
"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???"
Ok nevermind he was a scary sort of crazy. Maddox got up and switched seats. She raised her hand, "Shaw if we are attacked wouldn't they know you were the chief in charge because um...you're the adult and we are little fidgets." she pointed out to him.
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